Something we’ve toyed around with at work is the idea of taking our highest-end Precision Workstations and converting them to 64-bit. The idea being that our renderfarm for our 3D Visualization guys would benefit greatly from being 64-bit (especially since the systems in question all have 4 gigs of RAM, whicih 32-bit doesn’t fully use), but end users may still need some of the compatibility and driver support that 32-bit lends itself to, which I have discovered greatly in the process of even trying to go 64-bit in the office here.
The article HERE goes through how to do this dual-boot. Quite honesty, it doesn’t seem too much difficult than any other dual-boot setup, but it’s good to know this can be done should you have needs to use the horsepower that your Xeon (or Core 2 Duo) processor lends you!
