Anyone running a Nvidia GTX680 Mac Edition in there Mac Pro

I was thinking of putting this card in 3.06 12 core, and my son's 2008 2.8 8 core. Is anyone running this card? Does it play nice with both OSX, and Windows?

The people that are you will find on MacRumors and thread like the one on X-Plane. You do need Mountain lion.
GTX 680 (2 or 4MB VR) and X-Plane 10 ( 1 2 3 4 5)
GTX 680 4GIG model and power requirements (MP 4.1)?
GTX680 Or Sapphire 7950?
Barefeats tested those too:
May 10th, 2013 -- Do the newest GPUs run faster on the 2010 Mac Pro than on the 2009 and 2008 Mac Pro?
April 26th, 2013 -- PART THREE: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition versus the 'Sharks' (insane GPUs like the GeForce GTX 580 Classified and GTX 690)
April 18th, 2013 -- PART TWO: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 "Mac Edition" Versus Past and Present Mac GPUs running Pro Apps
April 16th, 2013 -- PART ONE: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 "Mac Edition" versus Past and Present Mac GPUs running OpenGL accelerated Games and Benchmarks
Would have thought you have been around here long enough to have seen these.

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