A little general guidance here would be nice...
My firm already runs Revit 8 on a small number of computers, but the others are in need of an upgrade. So, in looking at what to get on a budget, we've been examining the outlet refurbished Dells. The question is, is it more logical to get a cost-effective gaming machine than it would be a 380 workstation or something of the like? The gaming machines come with more bells and whistles, bigger drives, etc for the money. However, the discussion with some of my co-workers is that the architecture of the graphics card and motherboard is more appropriate for these applications and even if the workstation has a G card with only 128 mb, it's going to use it more optimally with Revit and Cad. There are no comparison benchmarks so it's impossible to produce any backing. So, I throw it to the community and see what you guys have to say.
Thanks.