Best performance dual 30 inch cinema displays dual x1900 card(s) ?

I am trying to get the maximum performance out of my system. I have a Mac Pro with two 30 inch cinema displays. I have them both connected to one X1900 card.
I use LightRoom as my photo work flow manager. I spread the library across both monitors as I sort thru photos.
Performance is good but sorting thru several thousand RAW files I need every bit of speed I can get.
Would I get better performance if I used two x1900 cards, one for each monitor? how about the 7300 or the FX4500? would those improve speed or better just for gaming?
thanks in advance for any help.

Two Quad-core with 8-16GB RAM, and your media fles on RAID.
I'd configure with 4 x 750GB WD RE2s. Can't easily swap or upgrade cpu so that is a given until you know and Apple has something that would make sense to buy/swap to newer faster systems (maybe in a year or next summer).
There is no support for two 16x lane slots. Maybe in the future but not now.
I doubt your performance is limited or factor of the twin 30s on the Radeon. It might. Try running with just one monitor for a few hours.

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