Will this card work in 2008 Mac Pro? XFX Radeon HD 5770 850M 1GB DDR5 MINI HDMI DUAL DVI PCI-E (HD-577X-ZHL) (A)

Hi, found, what looks like an interesting upgrade to my 2008 MacPro video. This card works with Windows, UNIX and FreeBSD (the code from which is very much in MAc OSX).. Anyone tried this card with success (or otherwise)?

Let's assume you are running 10.8.3 as there is more support.
What did you have? what is your budget?
"work" can mean, there is no boot screen but once the system is loaded it does.
Will the output display ports work, it all depends on how close it is to the ATI reference design Apple uses.
Are you planning to flash it? there are site forums that can help recommend cards.
And if you work with CS6 and want to use Mercury Engine and have CUDA then you want nVidia GTX series.
I would see what Mac supported cards MacVidCards on ebay has.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/macvidcards/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid =p3686
REVIEW: 7950 Mac Edition vs Apple 5870 vs MSI 7970 (Pics)
You would find more along these lines at MacRumors:
http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1
Barefeats: http://www.barefeats.com
March 22nd, 2013 -- PART DEUX: Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 versus other Mac Pro GPUs (running StarCraft, Diablo, Team Fortress, FCPX, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and LuxMark)
March 19th, 2013 -- REVIEW: Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 versus other Mac Pro GPUs (running DaVinci Resolve, Motion, OceanWave, Heaven 4, Valley, Civilization, and Dirt)
March 12th, 2013 -- The Current State of Mac Pro GPUs -- before the next "shoe" drops -- new benchmarks compare the current 'crop'

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It was funny to read all your answers on my iPhone while away from my computer. I could have reply on the iPhone but I preferred to wait to give you all the procedure I used to install the beta driver successfully this morning.
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