[bigcheese]

i heard awhile back that intel was back-tracking and designing a 64bit with native 32 bit support as AMD did from day one of going 64bit... of course, I dont keep up with processor hardware in that much detail to tell u if this is accurate or not ... so take what i said above with a grain of salt :-).

but im looking to build an amd 64bit 4k+ w/ 2 gigs of ram and sata raid to be the foundation of a mce 2005 machine, so any probs w/ 32 bit apps on a 64bit base are a concern to me right now as i spec out this mini-monster.

[Nick Danger]

amd 64bit 4k+ w/ 2 gigs of ram and sata raid

That's what I built. No problems w/ 32-bit apps so far, and it's been months. Warning: do not allow Norton Goback anywhere near your RAID. It doesn't seem to know RAID from Shinola, and it will trash your array.