64bit processing for consumer PCs is still in its infancy, but AMD is nevertheless pushing its Athlon 64 range of 64bit CPUs. At the moment it's a bit of a red herring as you need a 64bit operating system to take advantage of this.
While several flavours of Linux support 64bit, the 64bit version of Windows XP won't appear until possibly late 2004. The Athlon 64 runs normal 32bit software as well as any other 32bit processor, so there's no disadvantage in buying it and you will get a little bit of extra future proofing.
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