Upgrade Ideas

Hi,
I do a lot of video and motion graphics on my Mac Pro 1,1 and would like to upgrade the CPU and graphics cards. I see installation of the CPU may be a trickier process, but it looks like I'll have no trouble changing out the graphics card. I'll probably just pay someone to do the CPU. But when buying the gear, do you guys have any suggestions that I should keep in mind? Any recommendations for hardware?
I was looking at something like this for the processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115066
And something like this for the graphics card: hhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150507
Any thoughts would be great!
Lawrence

Thanks very much! As you can see, I'm pretty useless with upgrading. I've plugged in my own internal HD's and RAM for this system, but those are both pretty simple. However, I had hoped that the Mac Pro would allow for more inexpensive upgrading than buying new or refurbished. My current model has 2 Duel-Core Intel Xeon 2.66GHz processors and the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT. So you're saying that due to other hardware issues, it would not really benefit me as much to upgrade to say, two of the Intel Xeon E5620 Westmere 2.4GHz 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 80W Quad-Core
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117234&cmre=intel_xeon_processor-_-19-117-234--Product
and the
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100283VX-2L Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity
Or will that not give me a big boost in processing/rendering speeds?
Thanks again for your advice & input.
Lawrence

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