This is well beyond the realm of my knowledge but somebody I know has a bunch of hardware sitting around, including:

http://www.vistek.ca/store/ProVideoEditingSoftware/234663/blackmagic-design-intensity-pro-pcie-1-lane.aspx

He wants to know if these are of any value for mining anything (bitcoin/litecoin/whatevercoin).

Unfortunately google didn't turn up anything on these cards so I'm guessing they aren't that useful.

But one never knows...