Need advice on video card

I just received my new MacPro 2x2,8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with two 500 Gbyte drives inside. I accidentally ordered four (4) ATI Radeon HD 2600 (256 Mbyte) videocards (stupid me - I thought "4xATI Radeon..." in the configuration meant that the card was 4 times more powerful than the cheapest card in the list...
So now I need to figure out what to do with the three extra cards I don't need. If Apple is not willing to take them back, I may sell them at ebay. What should I expect to get for a card like this?
I see that the ATI Radeon HD 2600 card is not the ultimate video card for the Mac... So I have started to wonder if I should have picked the more expensive card NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. I have read some opinions about the difference between these cards, but it seems that all the reviewers are gamers. - What I will be using the card for, is to run FinalCutPro, Motion and ArtMaticPro/Voyager to create HD video and animations.
With the configuration I have now, I can't play back 1280x720 HD in Animation (almost no compression). I wonder if this is normal, or do I need a faster video card than the ATI Radeon? I ordered the Mac with 2 Gbyte RAM, and I am waiting for additional 4 Gbyte to arrive soon (from a retail store - that saved me at least 250 USD compared to ordering this much RAM from the Apple Store
Any thoughts and advice is very much welcome!

Hi,
If I could use one of these to drive a second VGA CRT on my computer (same model as yours),
I might be willing to buy one of them.
I now know that I cannot use the same displays setup I had with my G4 with the new MacPro.
Would love to know if simply adding a video card would solve my problem.
My very old Apple CRT 15" monitor that I bough NIB about 2 years ago (and works great) doesn't play nice in a 2 monitor from 1 ATi Radeon 2600HD setup.
I am wondering if adding a second card will solve the problem.
Thanks, and so long for now, TOM

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