Hi everyone,

I'm using Solidworks 2011 through my engineering course at uni and I'm planning on getting a new laptop, so I just wanted to ask a few questions.

- How will a 7970M (or AMD gaming cards in general) run the program? (A lot of people on computer forums don't know so I though I'd ask here)

- How much effect does RAM have on performance? Will upgrading from 8 to 16GB be a noticable improvement?

- Has anyone had experience running ANSYS (Solidworks simulation might be similar?) , and could my propsed laptop handle that too?

- Finally, if I run the i7 Ivy Bridge 2.3GHz (3.3Ghz turbo) CPU, what will bottleneck Solidworks?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. The laptop I'm looking at is around \$2000 so I really want to make sure I get it right.