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I've got a Radeon HD 5670 (as mentioned here). I'm going to be helping subsidize the French Defense industry for a class I have to take. Other than upgrading my RAM (to 8 gigs from 4), would it be worth my time to get a second graphics card (say a FirePro V4800), and connect them via CrossfireX?

Note: The system has performed wonderfully for the past year or so and I wouldn't give it up for most anything, I just want to be able to run what I need for class as smoothly as is feasible.

You don't need a really beefy graphics card to run solidworks. What you have right now should be fine.

Crossfire won't help you. You should be fine using a non-pro GPU though Solidworks might go "sucks to be you" if something doesn't work.

We've got a lab full of Geforce 8600 cards that run Solidworks just fine, so your Radeon 5670 should be plenty.

We did have to update the video card drivers on our machines for it to run correctly though, so if you run into graphical issues you can try updating drivers and it may resolve the issue.