Images pixelated in Aperture, not iPhoto?

I have been importing all my images to Aperture from an external drive, and all is going well. My problems is some of my images are pixelated when viewing them in Aperture. When I open iPhoto though and view my Aperture library in iPhoto the images look normal. I have not imported them to iPhoto, I am just curious what is going on here? I am an Aperture beginner so I am lost as to why this is happening? Hope that make sense. It is kind of hard to explain what is happening.
Thanks for any help in advance,
Christopher

Re: Images pixelated in Aperture, not iPhoto.
I am having a similar problem but instead of iPhoto, its Bridge. The same exact photo that I opened in
Aperture at 100% is quite pixelated yet when opened in Bridge, it is not. I am using Aperture 3.2.2, on a
MacPro 2x3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon w/ 9GB Ram, running 10.6.8. I thought it might have something to
do with the graphics card. I have the ATI Radeon X1900 XT. When I copied the same raw file to my 13" Mac
BookPro with a NVIDI GeForce 9400M Graphics card, the photo looked fine in Aperture. Since Aperture is so graphics card intensive, is it possible that it needs a better graphics card? If so, is there a better one I could install in my MacPro?
Thanks for any help.
Lori

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