Mini Display Port for early MacPro

I want to be able to drive a 24" LED monitor from my 2007 MacPro (i.e. with 667MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM memory and PCI Express 1 slots). Does anyone know of a card with MDP that will work in this Mac?

Hmm, interesting, although I'm always reluctant to have yet another device sitting on the desk and it's powered, so that means yet another mains adapter that has to be plugged in somewhere.
However, at $180 that's slightly more than a Geforce GT120 display card which has Mini DisplayPort built-in.
BUT, I'm now pretty well convinced that the GT120 will NOT run in a CloverTown MacPro due to the EFI 32/64 issue:-(
The best option therefore appears to be either the Atlona adapter above, or the ATi Radeon 4870 that should run in the CloverTown, but at more than twice the cost of the GT120.
All a bit of a mess really isn't it.

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