I’m finding myself in a similar situation…
This is going to be a totally new machine probably from Dell or HP, or someplace you guys would recommend over those. I’m not doing a scratch build. It’s company money but I don’t want to spend where it unnecessary.
I use Alias Studiotools, Solidworks, Keyshot, plus Adobe stuff daily.
-16gb of ram seems fine
-I’ll probably get a boot SSD and a big 2nd HDD
-Is a Xeon set up(dual or single) worth it over an i7 proc set up? Should I aim for more cores, or higher clock speed? or both?
-I have dual nvidia GTX 280 video cards right now and they seem to run everything fine. Are the quadro cards worth investing in? I don’t really really want to fuss with video drivers too much.