What is your ideal computer for solid works.  I am an IT technician who is supporting a user having issues running Solidworks Simulation premuim.  Mostly it's just incredibably slow.  The computer is an older cad workstation.  I have been instructed to see about buying him a new one.

Main question i have is what does Solidworks benifit from having?  Is it thread intensive or does it do all of it's processing on 1 or 2 threads.

How much ram is enough?

How heavy does it lean on graphic's?  Will a quatro 3800 512mb card handle it.

I have setup a few computers for other engineers that are running Revit or Tekla software.  Those 2 programs benefit from having more threads available.  Any guidance would be appriciated.

Thanks.