Hello all,
It's time for a new workstation and I need to select from 2 equally-priced options:
Without a doubt I would go with Option 1, the Quadro 600 video card is pretty awful.
I have a Quadro 600, and it works great onasseblies with over 100k parts. I've tested lots of workstations, and it always comes down to "enough" memory, fastest clock CPU available, and "enough" graphics ho.
The z420 is a fine box for ProE. 16 gig memory is a no-brainer at current memory prices. SSD is also nice.