7300 GT and dual 23" monitor - OK?

As a stop gap measure until either (a) exchange rates improve or (b) the rumors are confirmed and Apple introduces 16-core Mac Pros early next year, the facility I work at is looking at getting a couple of refurbished Dual Xeon (Quad) Mac Pros to replace our outdated G5's.
The machines we're looking at come equipped with 7300 GT graphics cards. We're currently using AGP X850 XTs, which obviously won't be able to be used in the new machines.
My questions are:
- Will these 7300's handle dual 23" displays comfortably?
- How will they perform doing GPU-intensive operations, such as those found in After Effects, Color and occasionally FCP?
- And slightly OT, does anyone know what PCI spec these machines are equipped with? PCI Express? PCI-X? We're running a SCSI adapter and a Decklink card we'd love to carry over if possible - both are PCI Express.
Thanks for reading

user_138 wrote:
- Will these 7300's handle dual 23" displays comfortably?
Yes.
- How will they perform doing GPU-intensive operations, such as those found in After Effects, Color and occasionally FCP?
They will work, but not as fast as with more powerful cards.
- And slightly OT, does anyone know what PCI spec these machines are equipped with? PCI Express? PCI-X? We're running a SCSI adapter and a Decklink card we'd love to carry over if possible - both are PCI Express.
The bus is PCI-Express, but make sure there are Mac Pro OSX drivers available for the cards.

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