some additional information: our network has mutiple VLANs and the workstation and servers are connected via 1Gbps. the workstation and server are both in different VLan. Below are the 3 types of local computers we are using for this project:
PC TYPE RAM VIDEO CARD CPU SPEED NIC SPEED OS
HP DC5800 Dual Core 8GB PCI Express GEForce 9500GT 512MB 2.20GHZ Automatic (1.0Gbps) WinXP 64BIt, SP2
HP XW4600 Core 2 Duo 8GB NVIDIA QUADRO FX 1700 3.0GHZ Automatic (1.0Gbps) WinXP 64BIt, SP2
HP XW6600T Xeon 8GB NVIDIA QUADRO FX 4600 2.83GHZ Automatic (1.0Gbps) WinXP 64BIt, SP2