Are the Mac Pro's graphic cards are upgradeable?

been wondering...
if i buy the basic configurtion Mac Pro will I be able to upgrade the graphic cards later on ?
everybody speaking about upgrading Ram or CPU no one speaks about the GFX

No. And you can't upgrade the RAM or SSD on a Retina either. Are you talking about Macbook Pro's or Mac Pro's?

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Thank you for the valuable information Eric, I think I will go with the 680 but I understand that it wont be fully utilised on my old Mac Pro.
Perhaps I will replace my startup/applications hard drive with a 480GB SSD. My other 3 bays are full with 3 x 2TB Hard drives that have media on them so I have no spare room for a dedicated SSD drive for AE cache. But could I put a 250GB SSD into one of the PCI-E slots using something like - SSD SuperSpeed Upgrade Kit for Apple Mac Pro 2008 2009 2010 2012 | eBay
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Early 2008 I purchased a mac pro, with 2 8800gts and 1 2600xt. Works amazingly well, as it was originally purchased for number crunching (video cards were purchased to take advantage of openCL in snow leopard) and more screen realestate. (3 monitors)
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Are there any games that take advantage of multiple video cards???
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I'm sorry if my question was a little ambiguous, let me try to rephrase.
If anyone is familiar with the Nintendo DS system, you will understand that this handheld device has 2 screens.. one is used primarily as a game screen, the second screen has the game map or console or some kind of readout or whatever. Bottom line is, the game takes advantage of 2 screens.
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as you probably know there are two (in my eyes at least) types of the Ati Radeon 5770 these being:
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/27669549/620722873/ATI-Radeon-HD5770-1GB-PCI-E-Gra phics-Card/ListingDetails.html?_%24ja=tsid:11518%7Ccat:27669549%7Cprd:27669549 This version seems to be more designed for the Windows side of computers
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