Does the ATI 5770 graphics card have compatibility problems with early 2008 Mac Pro?

I have had advice from apple technical which contradicts the reviews on the web and on apple site? Apple say that the ATI 5770 is not compatibile while it seems that everyone else thinks it is?
Technical support have pointed me to the follow link
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3891?locale=en_GB&viewlocale=en_GB
Has anybody experienced this issue?
All help appreciated
(I know that I will have to upgrade OS)

you want the summary of pros and cons?
there is always the official - what we support, tested, marketing - that you can usually take with grain of salt (or two)
there is an official article on support for pre-2010
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3891
pre-2008 you will see Barefeats and users that PCIe 1.1 does limit the max bandwidth
Google, Bing http://www.barefeats.com/wst10g5.html
http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=5770+performance
support for 3 displays is always a problem
Apple has taken the reference design with support for 2 x DVI and cut one out, and eliminated HDMI in favor of 2 x minidisplay ports.
http://www.groths.org/?tag=5870
I am not the best on GPU features but that is the ghist.

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