Good Day,

I am looking to configure a new system for one of my users and I would like some advise from those who have been using Soldworks for some time.

I am looking to purchase a new desktop running windows 7 64bit the system will have 6 gig of ram with a Quad Core Xeon E5607 running at 2.26G
Hz.  The Video Card will be 1GB Quadro 2000

We do a lot of Rendering and I know that for that it is Cores (the more the better) and memory.

For an extra grand I can get 6 Cores  Xeon X5660 2.80GHz but my concern is the following.  Are those two Cores that I am spending a grand on worth it?  Will it aid the user or will he really not even know it.  Granted it is subjective and his old system is already a Intel Core 2 quad core Q9550 2.83GHz

Granted the Xeon is much more robust then a Core 2 system.

Am I better spending that grand on more memory or keep the 6 core system?  Is that the best bang for my buck.  He renders some heavy stuff I feel.

thanks for the help on this

Adam Raff