Will an HD 5870 run on a Mac Pro 1,1 under Windows?

Hey Guys,
Done a search for this but can't find any information. I'm looking into getting a little more life out of my Mac Pro (Quad 2.66, 13Gb RAM, HD 3870) by being able to use it for PC gaming, and was wondering whether any of the latest video cards (like the HD 5870) will still run on the machine under a Windows partition (probably Vista 64-bit, but maybe Windows 7 if I upgrade to that).
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers

The question is what do you do instead of use the 3870, as you don't have 3 aux connectors to work with (and one 16x slot, while you probably can get along fine with 4x or 8x for the 3870).
I would not even give Vista the time of day. But, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit is a 'must' to use more than 2GB RAM; to use both processors. Else, it really doesn't work as well, and Vista isn't worth the effort.
So once you solve the EFI64 boot issue that Windows and Apple now use for 64-bit, you'll be fine.
Then again, maybe its time to cut loses, some people would be happy to be able to run Tiger, and are willing to pay $1k for a system like yours.

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