IMac with the NVidia 8800 option -- How noisy/quiet is it ?

Hi,
I have a PC with Vista, and I am just about to pull the trigger and get an iMac.
Noise is very important to me, and I am wondering if I should choose the NVidia option because of the noise. I am planning on running XPlane on this computer, and I know it will run better with the NVidia card.
Does anybody have an iMac with the NVidia card ? What's the difference in terms of noise with the ATI option ?
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: buzdelabuz2

Hi,
I wish I could say I was 100% happy with this iMac, but unfortunately, this isn't so.
While the original topic, the sound level, is just as we talked, as soon as you start pushing this NVIDIA graphic card, it causes the computer to crash. It's actually worse than what I was experiencing with Vista. Everytime it crashes, it has some funny badly rendered graphic on the screen, and just totally lock up on me. Sometimes it's so bad, I can't even ssh to the machine. Although I can't say for sure, it looks like the problem comes from the NVIDIA graphic card.
Truth to be told, I use a lot of graphic intensive applications like VmWare Fusion and iPhotos, but that's what it's supposed to be for!!!
I have to reboot the iMac every day almost. A real shame.

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