We are planning to buy new hardware for our CAD-people. Now I ask myself if it would be smart to buy AMD-Opteron 64bit mashines and run them with 32bit XP and Pro/E. I know that there is an XP64bit-beta and also a pro/E64bit-beta. I read that if you run an opteron with 32bit software and operating system you are still faster (with proe) than on the fastest AMD32bit. If you switch to 64bit some day you should be able to run 32bit software without having such horrible things like FX32 (remeber the DEC-Alpha times...).
Does anybody have any information or experiance with that topic - what would buy?
Thanks in advance, Rainer