> I would like to know more about this topic (AMD64 performance) too Ron Kuper from Cakewalk has put up a whitepaper on the subject, the average gains are around 30% for a simple recompile to 64bit. theres twice as many general-purpose registers in 64bit mode, but that is offset slightly by increased memory bandwidth used for pointers etc.. heres the link: http://www.cakewalk.com/x64/whitepaper.asp