Hello, I am buying a very quiet workstation for SolidWorks, Inventor, 3D SolidWorks simulations, etc.

How is the HP-Z820 with multi-core Xeon E5-2687 (or 2690)?

Which video card do you recommend? ATI or Nvidia? Is the Quadro 6000 overkilled?

Will SolidWorks 2013 take advantage of 8-16 cores processors?

Thanks.