AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 CPU (2x2.60GHz, 2x1MB L2 cache)
ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe mainboard (ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset)
OCZ PC-3200 Platinum EL DDR SDRAM (2x1GB, CL2-3-2-5)
Maxtor MaXLine III 7B250S0 hard disk drive (Serial ATA-150, 16MB buffer)
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 sound card
Enermax Liberty 620W power supply (ELT620AWT)
Samsung SyncMaster 244T monitor (24”, 1920x1200@75Hz max display mode)
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Beta 2 x64 (build 5384)
Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2
ATI Catalyst beta for Windows Vista Beta 2 (ati_LH_RC0_64)
ATI Catalyst 6.8
Windows Vista Beta 2 can't be used for playing games because it is just incompatible with many titles and leads to a considerable performance hit in others. This is at least true for the currently available beta version of ATI’s graphics card driver. Windows Vista allows using the ordinary driver, written in the Windows XP framework (XPDM), but that driver does not have even the basic support for WGF and does not allow using such a key innovation of Vista as the Aero interface. It means that gaming tests in Windows Vista with old drivers wouldn’t be adequate.