CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) / Flow Simulation Questions

[Michael S]

Just going throw out there that a Quadro isn't necessary for Solidworks. Not for CAD, for rendering, for running CFD or any other simulation. In school/FSAE we did everything on OLD gaming hardware such as i7-2700 and GTX 660. Just last month I ran some CFD on my personal machine which is an AMD Ryzen machine and a GTX1060. Previous to that I ran Solidworks on an AMD FX-6300. All the listed hardware has worked for me even when opening assemblies with several hundred parts. Admittedly all these setups had at least 16Gb of ram and the old i7 chugged but everything worked just fine.

All you are missing out on is 'certified' hardware and some performance. If your system is older or not as powerful just be aware that it may be slower.