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Originally Posted by CMBrandon

I think a really helpful article for everyone would be this one by Nvidia that explains most of this in detail.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/best-cad-components.html

Nothing in that article refutes my statement that high clock speed CPU is more important than choice of GPU, so long as your GPU is Solidworks certified.

You'll get a vastly bigger performance boost by upgrading to a ssd (if you're somehow still using a mechanical drive) than you would by upgrading from a base model quadro to a mid tier one.

The one big thing to take note of is that testing has shown the cheapest $200 quadro card will outperform the Titan in Solidworks performance.