I would. While there would be a big performance boost on a 64bit OS from MS, there would be the same thing from one in 64 bit Linux. While waiting for XP x86-64, I'd dual boot XP 32 with "Linux 64", run my web services off of it, and screw around with it in XP when I wanted to do some gaming, though it wouldn't be my primary gaming box until XP x86-64 came out. It would give me a chance to get a feel for the characteristics and potential of the chip ... and if I liked it, I would throw 90 nm ones in my other boxes next spring.
I was going to build a hammer box in May knowing that 64 bit Windows wasn't on the horizon yet, and the only thing that would make me pause would be if there was a dually clawhammer board on the horizon. It is unknown if this will happen since the clawhammers are strictly single processor chips, but I imagine someone will figure it out eventually ... if I was rich I would just pick up a dual opteron system for the extra HT bandwidth.
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