Expanding my Quad core 'old" MacPro to 8 Core

I've been searching around since Dec 07, soon after I bought my new MacPro Quad to find out what is available to upgrade it to an 8 core.. and this is before they announced the new MacPro 8 core a month after I bought my Quad MacPro. (sigh)
I remember seeing somewhere at the time that the old MacPro could be had in a 4 or 8 core.. but now I am unable to find any info..
The questions are: (If you have a url that explains all this, much appreciated)
(A) Can I upgrade my old new MacPro to 8 core (I do a lot of video and photo work.)I'm finding my MacPro slower than my Quad core PC doing the same tasks.
(B) If yes, what are the CPU options, and where to find them?!
I don't game at all with this MacPro, but want to be able to do my video work in a much faster manner..
yes, kinda ***** this all came out at the same time of the new MacPro announcements but whachagonnado?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers

hi Hatter, trying to follow where you're pointing with this.. My RAID10 setup is the two drives striped and two drives mirroring the striped drives.. which gives me the 1 Tb space.. I don't use a scratch disk or do backups.. nothing to back up to be honest.. The little video work I've done thus far indicate no probs with the captures, or the editing as far as not using a scratch disk. The first time I tried a scratch disk on USB it pooched the drive so I had to reformat it.. (not knowing you actually had to "eject" a drive before pulling the plug..)
I think I might have done it with a slightly different set up if I had to do it again.. I don't know if this would work or would make any sense but I think I'd have a stand alone boot disk, and a backup disk for the boot drive (mirroring) and stripe the other two drives for capturing and editing videos.. (is this what you meant in your 2nd para?)
However, right now I'm just starting to work with the mac and learning my way through.. All funs and giggles till someone loses an eye.. ; )
Note: you're not missing anything with Vista.. I've downgraded a recently new laptop that came with Vista to XP.. now it's more useable and faster.. and didn't cost me anything. MS has a setup that allows you to transport your Vista licence to an XP OS installation.. but there's a catch.. If you have Vista Biz, you can only do this with XP Pro.. so find someone else's disk, but use your Vista licence. Nice. But I digress.
Cheers M8

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