Originally posted by: maxemo
It looks like intel has drivers for everything. I was just concerned about the compatibility with software. Also I don't think most anti virus programs have a 64 bit version.
There are plenty of anti-virus programs that work fine with Vista x64,personally I'm using Kaspersky 6 (upgrading to version 7 soon when it's released) also Avast,NOD32 work fine with Vista x64 as well to name only a few.
I run a lot of the common 32 bit software with my Vista x64,things like Firefox(64 bit version works fine too but does not have the full web software support like 32 bit version),SpywareBlaster,Spybot,ALZip,uTorrent,Nero 7,Printmaster 16,Quicktime,Adobe 8,Speedfan 4.32,CCleaner ,I hope these give you some idea of aplications I use,as to games well you don't want to see my huge list of games installed that run fine,compatibility is very good in general unless you got some highly specialized software.
I also run 64 bit programs too,got best of both worlds really(Thunderbird,O&O 8.6 defrag to name a few).