ZDNet had a first looks and a review of the new Windows 7 beta 1 operating system that is expected to be made available to beta testers in early January 2009. According to the reviewer, it is good, solid and fast.

And from Computerworld.com, the beta OS is also reportedly to have been leaked to the Internet at several Bittorrent sites.

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We are curious how benchmarks and games will run under Windows 7 pre-beta version using the Core i7 processor. We ran the Core i7 965 processor with ASUS Rampage II Extreme board at 4GHz and one HDD loaded with Vista 32-bit SP1 and the other with Windows 7 32-bit while everything else are identical. Forceware 180.44 WHQL drivers although works on Windows 7 but 3-way SLI is a no go for all games benchmarks and SLI doesn't work well on Far Cry 2. Read on to find out more.

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