8800GT for Aperture and Gaming

Hello, i'm planning on upgrading my base 2600XT to the 8800GT to run games on bootcamp like crysis and others.
However i'm concerned that i will lose performance when i run aperture 2.0 on osx since according to barefeats the 2600XT is better than the 8800GT at core image applications.
I was wondering if anyone had any experience on running aperture and the 8800GT.
Thanks

I don't play games much on my MP, at most Warcraft, Starcraft, and NWN (all under OS X, and all play fluidly with plenty of fps). I do use Aperture a lot, and with the 8800GT the loupe specially works very smoothly, as is scrolling across images. I did have the 2600XT that came with my MP in June, but that came off the same day I got it, since I already had pre-purchased the 8800GT along with many other goodies that I was going to mod my MP with. Aperture doesn't rely solely on the graphics card to work fast. In my experience, the CPU gets heavier use than the GPU in applying the image adjustments, creating new previews and thumbnails, and a fast hard drive (with or w/o RAID 0/1) helps in loading the images faster when sorting through large libraries, and when you double click a thumb to enlarge it. I know Aperture runs a bit slower when I have Boinc running in the background at 100% CPU load. If you don't know, Boinc is one of those grid computing programs that are very CPU intensive. When Boinc is running, the generation of previews can be 2-4x slower, and that also applies to exporting the raw files into JPGs (where a GPU does nothing, it's all CPU). Benchmarks are one thing, actual use is another.

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