Any ol' saphire radeon 4870 will do?

Just curious as to if I bought a PC version of the Saphire Radeon 4870 with the dual DVI connectors and installed into the new Nehalem mac pro's if you think there would be any problems. Upgrading to the ATI from Apple will cost an additional 180, but another 99 will have to go to the adapter so I can use my second DVI monitor. I figured I would save 80 dollars and having to go through another cable if I bought the dual DVI version of the card.
Do you guys see a problem with this?
Thank you in advance for your opinions

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=3280778
http://www.welovemacs.com/9227128.html (costs more and fedex on top)
You should only need to buy one though some PC cards actually haven't included anything like the above and instead include a molex to 6-pin or 8-pin power cable.
Anything coming from Apple, if it needs two, it will have them (just like the 8800GT and other cards included, or the 3870s).

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