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What Works
Hardware
9800GX2 - although windows has an update for it, I get errors when I try to run the update.
24" Dell Monitor using HDMI
SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty (Driver installed)
Saphire 4870 1GB (Using beta drivers from ATI)
24" 2405 Dell Monitor
Biostar Tpower i45
OCZ Solid Series SSD Drives
GSkill Titan SSD
Software
Realtemp 2.70
CoreTemp 0.99.3
CPU-Z 1.49
GPU-Z 0.3.1
Firefox 3.0.5
COD World at War
Firefox 3.0.5
Foxmarks
Avast Antivirus
Active@ ISO Burner
VLC 0.9.8a
Drivers
Catalyst 8.12 Beta
What Doesn't Work
Hardware
Software
Arcsoft Total Media Theater - won't even attempt to load
Works - Software
Trillian Astra
Hamachi VPN
iTunes (seems silly but this app can be a real pain when it wants to be)
Firefox Glasser addon (makes Firefox translucent like IE)
SPSS 16.01 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences - kinda niche but I use it so I'm reporting it )
Works - Hardware
HP DeskJet 840C (my office has really old printers)
Lexmark T642, T630, T522 (I run around my University alot using different printers--these are laser)
currently have two xfx 9600gt's folding using the cuda beta driver 180.60. This is on the quad core rig in sig if you want the rest of the hardware. Will update with more testing.
Out of curiosity, has anyone tried this with an Atom? Just curious how resource-hungry it is. A build based on the D945GCLF2 is able to run Windows Vista Ultimate w/Aero quite well. I think I'll try it on my Atom build once the new northbridge heatsink arrives.
File Server/Media Encoder/PVR PC
Antec P182 / Corsair 550VX / Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R / Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53 / Wintec AMPX 2x2GB DDR2 800 / Sapphire 100233L Radeon HD 3450 / WD Caviar SE16 750GB x3 / WD Caviar GP 750GB / Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7190A x2 / XP Pro SP2
hnzw_rui wrote:Out of curiosity, has anyone tried this with an Atom? Just curious how resource-hungry it is. A build based on the D945GCLF2 is able to run Windows Vista Ultimate w/Aero quite well. I think I'll try it on my Atom build once the new northbridge heatsink arrives.
Yes my EEE PC is Atom based, and its very very fast. But I do have a SSD in there, but it will have a 7200RPM Sata drive come tonight, so I'll let you know if it is still as snappy
Warcraft 3 (Reign of Chaos, The Frozen Throne)
WC3 Banlist
Crayon Physics Deluxe
All of these are working perfectly on my machine.
I'm liking it so much (mainly the taskbar and how clean it allows me to keep my desktop) that I think I'm going to go ahead and install it on the bigger of my hard drives. (320gb Vista install right now as my "mission critical" hard drive and I'm running Windows 7 right now on a 60gb hard drive. I'm on a laptop and switching out hard drives for testing, but i've been spending way more time in windows 7 and nothing I do is actually critical to any missions)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.0GHz
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
2x1gb G.Skill DDR2-800 4-4-3-5
eVGA 8800GT SC with Akimbo cooling Kit
WinXP Pro
Dell 2405fpw @1920x1200
Microsoft released a work around for those users that run into MSI-based installer issues. For example Photoshop CS4 or ebay TurboLister would error during the installer package intialization.
Solve a problem with Windows 7 beta
An issue with the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) client in Windows 7 beta is causing Explorer and some MSI-based installers to stop working properly.
To solve this problem, follow these steps:
Click the Start button , click All Programs, and then click Accessories.
Right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. In the User Account Control window, verify that Program name is Windows Command Processor, and then click Yes.
In the Administrator: Command Prompt window, type or paste the following text at the prompt: reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions /va /f
Press Enter to install the solution.
If The operation completed successfully displays, close the Administrator: Command Prompt window to complete this procedure. If "ERROR: Access is denied" displays, repeat this procedure from the top, making sure you clicked Run as administrator in step two.
So far after that workaround was released I've not had any problems I couldn't devise a work around for. Xonar users will need to manually run the secondary setup.exe file located within the driver package (don't run the root setup.exe file). Otherwise my Xonar and all sound options work fine on Windows 7 x64 as they did on Windows Vista SP1 x64.
GPU Folding@home works just fine, but the SMP CPU Folding@home program doesn't work properly, even after executing with higher admin privileges. FahMon requires higher admin privileges to write a bunch of log & cache files.
Core i7 920 @ 4.2GHz 1.36v
Gigabyte GA-X58-UD5
Under Water
Intel D945GCLF2 w/Atom 330
Samsung SyncMaster 2220WM - originally can't use native 1680x1050 resolution but fixed by update (for both Intel 82945G & Samsung SyncMaster)
I haven't tried installing any software, though.
File Server/Media Encoder/PVR PC
Antec P182 / Corsair 550VX / Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R / Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53 / Wintec AMPX 2x2GB DDR2 800 / Sapphire 100233L Radeon HD 3450 / WD Caviar SE16 750GB x3 / WD Caviar GP 750GB / Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7190A x2 / XP Pro SP2
What works ....
Nvidia 8800 ultra - Drivers included but there is an update available thru Windows Update
Asus P6T Deluxe w/ Core i7 920 & 3GB RAM
Xbox 360 wireless controller for PC
Quickbooks Pro 2007
Spybot Search & Destroy 1.62
Microsoft Office Pro 2007
Img Burn 2.4.2.0
XFire
IE7 Pro 2.4.4
After installing aforementioned video drivers:
Halo 1
Crysis - Crysis Warhead - Crysis Wars
Update =WMP seems to be broken in some aspects. Have had problems playing MP3 files from a network location.
Last edited by DL126 on Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
GPU Folding@home works just fine, but the SMP CPU Folding@home program doesn't work properly, even after executing with higher admin privileges. FahMon requires higher admin privileges to write a bunch of log & cache files.
Yes it does, there is a workaround at the F@H forums, I can't find it at the moment, but I am folding SMP with windows 7 no problem