I686 or x64?

Was using Arch i686 for last couple years. Now i got new desktop with Quad Q6600/4GB RAM... so now im thinking if i should install Arch i686 again or go for x64.
Will i get noticeble perfomance improvement on x64?
So far i get i686 system wont be able to use all 4GB of memory?
I use wine often. I found wiki page describing how to compile it on x64, but how stable it actually works?
Sorry for noob questions

Evzin wrote:Will i get noticeble perfomance improvement on x64?
Maybe. It will be a bit faster. If you will notice it, that's a different story.
Evzin wrote:I use wine often. I found wiki page describing how to compile it on x64, but how stable it actually works?
I think all the open source software out there works just as well on 64bit as on 32bit.
Closed source things like Flash are a bit harder to configure on 64bit but it's actually still quite simple. By coincidence I did it today but it was pretty easy. Just follow the wiki and you should be fine ( http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64 )

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X86 libs on x64 using --arch=i686 installes to /usr/lib

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