Legit Reviews

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
    Drivers
  What Partially Works*
  
  • Hardware
    
    Software
    • HandBrake 0.9.3 - runs but rips incorrectly.
    Drivers

Post below and I'll update it as I see them.

* Please state why it Partially Works

Need specifics guys not just generalizations. What drivers don't work (Nvida or Ati? what version?), what games don't work?

updated and removed excess chatter. Put your chatter in another thread

review my last post, i'll just update the same thread so i don't have a ton of posts, as i'm testing a lot of stuff

work:
Firefox 3.1Beta2
Newest Adobe Flash/reader/shockwave
NZXT avatar and Razer Deathadder
9600GSO
SLI
Speedfan 4.37



the video drivers that come with it are labeled: "nvlddmkm 7.15.11.7923(ForceWare 179.23)"

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)

What Doesn't Work: 64bit
Linksys wireless G adapter PCI type (sorry guys, can't remember the model number)
Creative X-Fi Extreme Music PCI card

What Doesn't Work: 32bit
Creative X-Fi Extreme Music PCI card


EDIT....got the sound card to work in 32bit by running the Creative drivers in Vista compatability mode.

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.

Windows 7 worked running in VMware Server 2.0 with Vista Business as the host.

Edit: I know skierkid already mentioned it, but I just wanted to specify that Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.12.36 does work.

Windows 7 working on Vmware ESX server (Vmware is the host )

Windows 7 Ultimate running on an old AMD 3500 with a Asus5200 video card (dont have the system here)

Buffalo USB Wireless adapter will not work. WLI-U2-KG125S

List of Spyware Protection Software Compatible with Windows 7
http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2 ... windows-7/

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.

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)

What Works

CCleaner
RivaTuner V2.22
Foxit Reader
Office XP


What Doesn't Work

HP ScanJet 4300C (yeah I know it's old, but hey, it still works in XP!)

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.

Hardware wise everything in my system (see sig) seems to be working just fine so far..........;)

Current software is:
Office 2003
Avast Pro
Ad Aware
3D Mark Vantage Pro
3D Mark 06 Pro
PC Mark Vantage Pro

Just installed this on my PC last night:

What Works

• Hardware
  • 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.

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.

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