Dear All,

I need to spec out a computer for a new comer and wanted somefeedback from you guys to keep cost lower.

First, what is the advantage of a FX4600 over a FX1700. We workwith some 4600 in our office, but I would not mind lowering thisspec to get more power elsewhere... Is it just like games? ie, Imove the model around and the FX1700 will be slower than the 4600?

Dunno if it's the right place to talk about that, is there anybodywho tried to softmod a 8800 series in quadro? does the hack getperformance improvements in SW? I know that DirectX presentsimprovements, but was told that OpenGL don't.

Our workload is 70% of design/drawing, 20% of simulation, 10% of 2Ddrafting. Does the difference of price between a 2 core cpu 3.0GHzand a 4 core cpu 2.5GHz worth it? As I know that SW is purelymonothreaded... I was thinking if I should throw away so much moneyin the cpu.

Last thing, I don't mind going SSDs (I found that the speedincrease difference worth the price), is there any feedback aboutusing SSD in Solidworks? I will have large amount of RAM (8GB) butstill, windows page a lot of data...

Thanks for the input.SolidworksAdministration