[tim-tim]

I can talk to my IT folks tomorrow. We run Creo 2.0 at work and have a decent setup. If I could give one piece of advice - spend money on a video/graphics card. You won't see much of a difference until you start to work on a large assembly (could be anything from a drivetrain to the entire robot - depends on your approach). Other than that, I think any i5 and up processor will work. I would get at least 8GB of RAM.

Honestly, the biggest difference you will see is in a video/graphics card. As a side note, a solid state hard drive is a nice upgrade, but not required by any means.