The real issue is the number of other computers.
Peer to Peer can only handle 10 (or is it 20?) computers on an XP Pro system. I think that is 20 on Win7.
I use a similar peer to peer in one office Pentium 4 3.0 and 2.5G with a 500 GB drive. That system is 5.1 something. The other computers are pentium 2.4 to 3.0s running xp.
The other office is Windows Server Essentials 2011 with an Athlon quad core and 4 GB. Both run well. That is V.6 Most of the other computers are dual cores 1.86 with about 1.5 G memory, running Win XP. Moving to dual ocres made a huge difference for V6, I have not investigated the video card issue but that may truly be the answer.
I am holding off for "Government" money to upgrade both systems. I will probably keep the Server and move everything up to modern dual cores. I will probably put a server in the other office as well, might do windows home server and linux box.
