SharePoint Server Farm, what to do with an old server?

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Hi there, so we've procured a monster of a SQL Cluster and 4 screaming fast machines running the apps/WFE to start up our MOSS 2007 Enterprise Server farm, however I've got one server from the old server farm configuration that was just re-imaged and is still running decently, it's a 32 bit machine where the others are 64 bit machines so it really can't serve the same role as a 64 bit machine. I'd like to see if there's a role for it somewhere in the farm, a few thoughts:

--Dedicated Search Query Server
--Dedicated Excel Services

Has anyone out there been in a similar situation? What did they do?

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