What is a 64 bit PC good for, and how should I configure it?

[RoundEye]

Somebody gave me a Jetway K8M8MS motherboard, with a Athlon 64, 3700 processor, decent case and powersupply.

I have a Radeon 9700 video card, a gig of ddr400 Corsair Twin-X ram, Audigy sound card, Linksys nic and an unused copy of XP Pro 64 bit.

I’m trying to figure out what’s the best use for all the hardware I have sitting around. I guess all I really need is some disk drives and rom’s. I have a nice game PC already, also a Dual P3 1GHz server running Win2K3 with a 300 gig raid5.

I'm wondering if a 64bit rig would be good for ripping music and DVD’s, or should I buy some large SATA drives and mirror them, upgrading my network here to a nicer workgroup server? I really don’t require all the permission and overhead of Win2K3 domain controller on my home network. I do like the idea of raid1 or raid5 for a little hardware redundancy in case of failure.

So what do y’all think would be the best use for all this stuff?

[YARDofSTUF]

32bit would be fine, u'll see no gain going to 64bit. Jetway, heh, goodluck!

[RoundEye]

....Jetway, heh, goodluck!....

Yeah, far from the best hardware, I just hate to let it sit around and collect dust when I can put it to some sort of use.