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OK, then get a 660 ti if you can afford it or a 660 if you want to save money.

Honestly, it depends on the program. For most CAD work, a 7870 will be fine and can run multi monitors.

I have not used pro engineer but have been very happy with AutoCAD. It all depends on what you want to do. For serious civil and architectural drawings Revit is pretty good. For mechanical uses, go with Solidworks. You can save Solidworks and AutoCAD files in .dxf format which can by uploaded...

If you can get a 7850 2GB then do it!

I use a 560ti for AutoCAD, Solidworks and ANSYS and have had no problems. I would get that as it probably has better driver support than the 5850.

I would highly recommend getting a dedicated graphics card. A 7870 would be a good balance of cost to performance. However, this all depends on your budget and resolution. In general, AMD/ATI cards are better at multi monitor and high Anti-Aliasing which is common in CAD programs. The rest of...

Depending on your local licensing rules, you can get a student version for free. Ask your school about it. We had AutoCAD, Revit and Inventor Student versions at school and I use Student versions of Solidworks and ANSYS at Uni, all for free. However, the school/uni has to have the license for that.