[Avid-L2] advice for system Symphony Nitris Classic

I am new at this group, but I followed this group for a while now. An editor which is working for us told me to use this group to post my guestion.

I am having two questions which are related. The reason for having these questions is that I am considering to switch our workstations. So I can use our XW8400 instead of the XW9300 with Symphony Nitris Classic.

- Most powerfull system for a Nitris Classic configuration
- Advice and possibilities to you use a XW8400 workstation

First can someone tell me what the best configuration is for a Symphony Nitris Classic system? I already know that the system has to have two PCI-X slots. And the most recent and powerfull workstation from HP that has these capabilities, is the XW8400 i guess. Is that right?

What can i do to get the maximum out of my system? With the Nitris DX the PC hardware has become more important because it is beter utilized, such as the video-card. How about the Nitris Classic? Which components are the most critical?

Can i use our XW8400 with Dual-Core Xeon 3Ghz (CPU nr 5160) as a Symphony Nitris Classic system do you think? I found a lot of documents on the Knowledge Base but could not find anything about the support of this processor particularly. I know this workstation has enough PCI-X slots for the Base-board and Codec-board. But thats all.

Thanks already.

Our specs:
XW9300 DualCore AMD270 2Ghz, 6GB, Vista64bit, Symphony Nitris Classic 3.1
XW8400 DualCore Xeon5160 3Ghz, 3GB, XP32, Media Composer 4.0
MediaNetwork Unity 5.1 Fibre 4GBs

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