Graphic card recommendation - S20 is dying

Hello All,
I have S20 which I recently-3-4 months ago- bought it. It's SATA type with the following specs:
Intel Xeon W3520 Processor (2.66GHz 1066MHz 8MB L2) - 130W
4GB ECC DDR3 PC3-10600 SDRAM (2GBx2 uDIMMS)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 32-core (512MB,DVI + DP)
SATA 250GB HDD
When I run sketch-up application with 20MB and put one model on top of another model
or
When I open-up a CAD file with a size of 40-50MB
The machine is dying. Sometimes It's giving response after 1 minute, 2 mins when I am using sketch-up
Today, I upgraded winXP from 32bit to 64 bit, but the result is still same.
I would like to know your opinoins how can I increase the performance of this workstation?
The max graphic card I can install is limited to 1.5GB which is available on lenovo.com or there are some graphic cards available on the market at 2x1024 MB.
Will it help me if I upgrade to 1GB or Can I upgrade to 2GB? Motherboard will support?
Upgrading to SATA SSD would be another solution?
Please provide some feedback if you have any experience about increasing the performance of this workstation may be you have done it before?
Thanks,
Hasan

I think the problem is not because of the computer memory. When I run Autocad, the memory goes up to 1.3 from 0.3GB. And then continue to open a sketchup then It goes up to 1.7GB although the computer has room for 4GB.
Additionally, when I watch the CPU usage, one of 8 core goes up to 100% for some time and then goes down when the program continues to respond.
I think still the problem might be because of low graphic card memory. Because of that, It's using the main processor longer time and I am waiting to see responses from the program
It seems, there are better/higher memory graphic cards than FX3800/4800 on the market. Would it be better if I go one of them? 2x1024=2GB Memory cards?
This resource has also quite good data on various graphic cards: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality-update-3/3DMark0...
Would you go with Nvidia or ATI?
Thanks

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