ATI 6000 series graphic card-

I imagine many of us MacPro owners know that Apple offers last years’ cards at next year’s prices. As such, I was wondering if anyone has been successful with installing the PC variants into their 2009 MacPro.
On the Q&A sales page, I remember a guy stated you could simply flash the PC version card and it would work in the MacPro but frankly, that sounds too easy. I would love to install an ATI 6000 series card into my MacPro in order to better support my NEC PA271 display. In fact, I'm planning on hooking another NEC just like it.
BTW: I’m not a gamer, although I do prefer to at least 1+ the stock GT-120 to drive my monitor(s). Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks,

Hi-
The latest update holds the necessary support for the following Radeon cards:
AMD Radeon HD 6850 Device ID 0x6739
AMD Radeon HD 6870 Device ID 0x6738
AMD Radeon HD 6970 Device ID 0x6718
Further, the Radeon 5xxx cards show broader support:
ATI Radeon HD 5630 Device ID 0x68D8
ATI Radeon HD 5630 Device ID 0x68D9
ATI Radeon HD 5670 Device ID 0x68D8
ATI Radeon HD 5730 Device ID 0x68D8
ATI Radeon HD 5770 Device ID 0x68B8
ATI Radeon HD 5850 Device ID 0x6899
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Device ID 0x6898
I've seen reports of various X86 users having plug and play success (no flash) with cards from the above lists.
As for which cards, exactly, you'll have to do some searching.
Also, there are no reports of MP users making the jump to 6xxx cards, yet......

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