Aperture and Nvidia GT120 Graphics Card

I'm ready to order the Mac Pro 8 Core with Aperture installed. I have two questions.
1. when Aperture is preinstalled is a card copy of the manual shipped, and
2. will the GT120 graphics card work well with Aperture?
I will converting Canon 5DMKII raw files to 16 bit tiff.
Thanks in advance

Coming from a G5 and a MBP, I now have a 2.66 eight core with 12Gb of ram. I have the standard GT120 installed and am waiting for a GTX 285 which is on backorder with Apple.
FWIW the GT120 is fine with my Sony 24Mpx files. I presume you'll import the raws and export as 16bit Tiffs, not work with 16bit tiffs?.
Aperture relies on GPU and I stayed away from the ATI due to the 512Mb of on board ram rather than the 1Gb of the GTX 285. I won't know if my decision was justified until the 5th Jan 2010 when I should finally be able to drop the last piece of hardware into my system.
In the meantime, aperture is fully usable and very speedy compared to my G5 and even the MBP.

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