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Upgrading Mac Pro Graphics Card

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I'm wanting to install a gtx 980, gtx 780ti, or a gtx 970 into my 8-core (x5482) 2008 mac pro. I will be running windows 7 and yosemite on separate hard drives. Is the cooling system good enough to keep everything running at ideal temperature for these cards? If not what should I get to cool it down? Also will this mac's cpu bottleneck the performance of these cards or is it fine? If any of you have recommendations on what card I should get let me know!

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The X5482 is a LGA 771 quad so I'm amusing this is a dual CPU system, the single thread performance is lacking a lot (under a FX 8320) that I personally wouldn't go over a GTX 760.

 

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You cant install any of those cards in a mac pro.....

 

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2848

 

If you installed a new one it might work with windows, but it certainly wouldnt work with osx.

That's just talking official support.

 

There are cards with Mac BIOSes and modifications to make cards work.

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That's just talking official support.

 

There are cards with Mac BIOSes and modifications to make cards work.

I personally would think that there would be ways around making any GPU work with Macs.

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You cant install any of those cards in a mac pro.....

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2848

If you installed a new one it might work with windows, but it certainly wouldnt work with osx.

So the GTX 680 Mac edition will not work in a Mac Pro at all?

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