Mac Pro Nvidia 8800GT and Aperture

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

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Initially I was getting some video glitches just after start up but then the machine would settle down and run for the session.
about a week ago the situation got increasingly worse so that from last Sat morning its will not even boot up 4 times out of 5 tries.
Gets to the apple symbol then freezes
I've tried booting from the snow leopard install disc but even then its freezes and I see many video artifacts.
I've ordered a ATi Radeon 4870 to replace the graphics card as I thought that might be the issue. The 8800 GT was full of fluff I feared it had cooked itself this summer.
But now I'm concerned from reading several forum topics that a recent OSX update has effectively killed machines with the 8800 Gt card.
I can't really operate fully without my macpro as that where most of the software is held. CS5 master suite etc
My business partner did say just get another machine but i'm not happy to go down that route just yet. Yes of course a 12 core is tempting but at ££££.££ cost.
lucky I have my Macbook pro to use otehrwise i'd be

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