Add FW 800 PCI to Quicksilver 2002 -- Performance Gain over BuiltIn 400?

Greetings!
I just got an external Firewire 800 enclosure and installed 2ea Seagate IDE ATA harddrives in it (and am running it off its FW 400 6-pin connection).
I am wondering if adding FW 800 PCI card will give me much read/write performance over my built-in FireWire 400? It's common for me to move 4GB video files across internal ATA to my external FireWire drives.
Quicksilver 2002, 10.4.3.
Any comments welcome especially if you've compared my options on your own hardware.
Finally:
Can you recommend a FW 800 PCI card that works (I only need one FW 800 connection on the card).
I am using a new enclosure PDS2GO35D, FireATA Enhance FWB2ATA35D with Oxford 912 chip, 1.2 firmware (that was recommeded on another thread and it seems to work fine).

FW800 is about twice as fast as FW400
Thanks for your help!
Still, running a FW 800 harddrive off a PCI card -- on a slow PCI bus speed (33MHz) -- adds mystery to the formula over running the same harddrive off built-in FW 400 (with other FW 400 HDs attached)...
I would guess some performance gain is likely, the question then becomes how much improvement (and is it worth the time, effort and money to find out for myself)?
I'm sure someone has done it and could save me from a firedrill if the gain is not that much or if it doesn't work.
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