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Originally Posted by artdutra04
Make sure you get a professional graphics card - either an AMD FirePro or nVidia Quadro. The hardware and drivers are tailored for CAD/modeling performance instead of gaming performance, and are thus the only officially supported graphics cards for most CAD software.
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YES. Workstation cards can be pretty expensive, but they are absolutely worth the money. My machine runs a FirePro v4800, and the performance is absolutely flawless. Also, 6+ core processors and 8gb+ of RAM. This combination will allow you to work with multiple files at the same time, and allow you to use raytracing while working.
Edit: This doesn't mean normal video cards won't work. I used an AMD HD5450 for CAD for quite a while, and although I couldn't keep raytracing and shadows on all the time like I can with my v4800, it was sufficient.