Adding a GeForce 7300 GT to my Mac Pro

I currently run two displays, a 24" Dell and a 30" Apple but want to add a Cintiq 12WX tablet. Hence, I am adding a GeForce 7300 GT video card to my Mac Pro's 7300 existing card to gain an extra connection. (Because my primary usage is for editing images, surfing the web, reading e-mail, etc., a GeForce 7300 is good enough for me.)
The 7300 is a 16x card but I can't set two slots to 16x. It appears that to use one at 16x and another at 8x, I need to put the second card in slot 4. (The Expansion Slot Utility only gives four choices (1) 16 1x 1x 8x; (2) 16x 1x 4x 4x; (3) 8x 8x 1x 8x; or (4) 8x 8x 4x 4x.)
My questions are--I think--simple: What slot should I put the extra GeForce card in? How should I set the PCIe expansion slots in the Mac Pro?

You could just as well put it in a 1X or 4X slot as you are probably not looking to do anything on the wx12 that requires much bandwidth for the graphics.

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Ahh, does that mean that something like this woudl need ot be flashed:
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Search long enough and you may find...
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T

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Adobe
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When I first got the 2007 Mac Pro, in 2009, I was running it in Mac OS 10.4.4.11 Tiger and Photoshop CS4 (11.0.0) would disable Open GL rendering when it detected the stock nVidia GeForce 7300 GT card, which was on Adobe's list of unsupported graphics GPUs. So, I purchased a refurbished Apple Radeon X1900 XT. This card allowed Photoshop CS4 and Bridge CS4 to enable Open GL Rendering. Over the last year, the Radeon X1900 XT graphics card has been creating stripes on my screen when it is running hot and sometimes the dual displays would just shut off while I was working. Also, the computer was doing hardware freezes about once a day. This morning the Mac Pro shut down it's dual displays, while I was working, and I had to do another cold shut off in order to restart. I then manually shut the computer down and did a manual boot-up so that Snow Leopard would employ disk maintenance.
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I appriciate an Adobe employee, like yourself, providing the information I need to make the right hardware choices when upgrading to Adobe CS5.

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Hi I'm Phil from Germany,
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Especially when the problem wasn't caused by me.
I need the old firmware, because my System runs with my GT 7300 after removing the software part listed above. Only one of the firmware components that had been updated won't fit in connection with the newer OS X Versions.
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