Will this set up work?

[robthebloke]

(06-09-2009 12:32 AM)Coder Wrote:  but do U think it's windows 7 is ready to use? ..

Doesn't seem any worse than vista 64bit tbh.

(06-09-2009 12:32 AM)Coder Wrote:  I just read that the orginal ver is not available yet ..

It's gone through the beta stage, and is now in the final Release Candidate stage. It's not (yet) the final build, but really isn't far off.

(06-09-2009 12:32 AM)Coder Wrote:  maybe the demo ver is availabile now .. but is has lots of problems ..

The beta had problems. The RC is out now. As i said above, we had some minor problems, but not with Windows 7 as such. Instead the problems are with Asus software. It seems that they do an annoying OS check in their installers. I'm guessing from code similar to this:

Code:

if( windowsVersion > Vista )
{
  MessageBox( "Error, unsupported OS");
  Quit();
}

So they all fail to install (even though the vista drivers are compatible with Windows 7). You can manually install the drivers without any problems, so the only annoyance is that the Asus QFan software refuses to install. I really haven't seen a single thing wrong with it so far (that isn't a problem in XP64 or Vista64).

The real question is this, do you want to spend £88 on a vista license now (+upgrade cost in 6 months time), or would you rather wait 6 months and spend £88 on a Windows 7 license? Seems like a no brainer to me anyway.....