Yesterday autodesk called me about upgrading and offered to have a local vendor get in touch.
you might go to their site and look up some one local from, the web page. and try a trade..:?
i7 kicks butt on systems tuned for it,, much faster than my Phenom II
''whether my 3ds Max 32-bit will run on a 64-bit OS''
yes in the x86 folder.