Hi guys,

I'm planning on purchasing a workstation soon, but i need advice from experts on how many memory/ram should i be looking at. I will be buying from OEM such as DELL or HP, according to their workstation series there are models which can be upgraded to 16 GB, 24GB,72GB, 192GB.

Running on WINDOWS 7 Pro 64-bit OS

Programs that i will be using consist of: DS Solidworks, Autocad, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Inventor, Adobe Creative Suite, perhaps Bunkspeed or other rendering programs not to forget MS Office + +

As this is the first time i will be buying a workstation i need feedback or advice from people who's doing the same task and perhaps running programs of such.
I'm looking to optimize the performance of my workflow, in reality do i need 70GB ++ of rams ? The task i will be doing is designing Products, interior space, 3D modeling, Rendering + +

Please advice me,
THANK you very much for your help! Hi
Balance the amount of memory with a really good graphics card, And CPU (I7), 16Gb for those programs would be enough. Look for a graphics card that is supported by the main program you will be using. And perhaps RUN your programs from solid STATE hard drive. If you do make sure that you backup the drive/s to another drive the life expectancy of SSD is still to be proven.