Adding an additional video card to my Mac Pro 1,1

Hello all,
I've got an old Mac Pro 1,1 with a Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT graphics card in it.  I'd like to add another graphics card to my machine in order to run another display.  I was looking at the ATI Radeon 5770 Graphics upgrade kit sold in the Apple store, but am wondering if I might as well just get another of the stock cards off of ebay.  I'm not doing nay hard core video stuff with this computer.  It runs all the multi-media for our church on Sunday mornings, so it simply does video playback.  I've found a bunch of them on ebay, but I'm not sure if there are PC versions and MAC versions of this card.  Does anyone know?
Or would I jsut be better off getting the 5770?  Can I install it and keep my current 7300 installed?
-jon

Ahh, does that mean that something like this woudl need ot be flashed:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NVIDIA-GeForce-7300-GT-512-MB-PCI-E-3D-Video-Graphics-Ca rd-NEW-GENUINE-OEM-/160688872766?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item2569cd9d3e#ht_11 03wt_1398
whereas something like this wouldnt?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Mac-Pro-nVidia-GeForce-7300GT-256MB-Video-Card-/27 0711007344?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item3f07a22870#ht_2774wt_1141
Thanks for your patience and help!

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