I have been looking to upgrade my machine situation. I have been using AMD Athlon 2.6Mhz, 2GRam, ATI 256MG for a few years. I have cleaned and tuned this throughout. Yet, it does slow down on some of my video editing work I do for mpeg and dvd. So. I have been looking at AMD 64 bit options.

Options:

a) AMD X2 with Vista 64 bit coming in a Compaq Presario (mostly because of the ease of having both a warranty and that I do not need to build it myself)

b) AMD X2 with XP 64 bit coming in a Barebones deal

c) AMD X2 with XP Pro coming in a Barebones deal

Obviously, I am asking if 3d Studio runs on a Vista 64 or XP 64; or, if it runs better on 32 bit OS, good old XP Pro.

Some things are harder said than done, some not!