Hardware upgrades

Where will you get the most bang for your buck?  On a per workstation basis, RAM. At least eight gigs to start with. If that isn't quite cutting it, look into getting some solid state hard drives. Remember after your RAM gets full, it cashes to the hard drive. The solid state drives out today have data transfer rates of six Gigs per second. If that doesn't work out, it might be time to consider looking for new workstations. All the aforementioned hardware recommendations should be included in the specs for your new workstation.  Revit is now multi-threading for opening and synchronizing process, along with some others, so the more cores on the processor the better. This makes for huge time savings.  Video cards are about the most confusing topic to add to this list.  The differences in performance between a good gaming card and a good professional grade graphics card can be barely noticeable, but the price certainly isn't. I will say that the more RAM your video card has on it, the more it frees up from your system.  That can be substantial for performance if your system is struggling. Lastly if I.T. doesn't already have a gigabit network throughout the office, make plans to get one.