I can open SolidWorks files and spin them around as fast as I want, on my 5-year-old ProLiant with the standard graphics card. The cool thing about the ProLiants is that they are brutally reliable. Almost everything is redundant.
Yup, PADS V5 from 2003. Boards come out fine.
Whose design?
The slowest stuff that PADS does on my PC is copper pours and checks. None take more than a few seconds.
We did recently buy a monster multicore LINUX machine that's used just for FPGA compiles. But that doesn't need much in the way of video.