Aperture on a Dual 2 Ghz G5?

What is the performance of Aperture on a Dual 2 Ghz G5? It is outfitted with the GeForce 7800GT video card and currently has 2.5GB RAM. I plan on updating to 4.5 shortly. Will the RAM upgrade speed things up? I have downloaded the trial and w/@1000 D2X RAW files things are not too quick.
When making slider adjustments there is a very noticable delay before the changes register. In full screen mode the loupe, (which I love) is jerky when viewing modified files, seems smooth on untouched files though.
Am just wondering if there would be a noticable difference with additional RAM installed?
Dual 2 Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Dual 2 Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I use iView Media Pro as my DAM of choice and you can get a 30 day trial. All of my images are referenced on a I TB Maxtor external drive. Both Aperture and iView reference the same drive. Many of my images are 65 MB Tiffs that were scanned from slides and sytem performance is pretty good. You can see I have a G5 dual 2.5 with 5.5 GB RAM. I don't believe processor speed makes that much difference with Aperture. It does appreciate more RAM. If you plan to edit in an external editor at times, or if you normally have several programs open at once the extra RAM will make a noticible difference.
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If it was just for yourself, I would have said "try" but you said this was for someone you would be selling it for, and there's the rub.
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