Well I’ve been working on my article for Windows 7 x64 vs Vista x64 on my new Quad-Core budget PC that I built for some home gaming, and I just started doing the benchmarks for Windows 7 in overclocked form. I must say… I’m extremely surprised that I’m not seeing the same results that everyone else is seeing.
I thought that when I was doing the comparison at stock speeds, I would see a bigger difference once I overclocked, but even now, it is pretty much the same and even slower in some cases.
If I had to take a guess as to what is going on, I’d say that there are still some driver issues to be worked out. The parts are all pretty new parts, but I was able to install all of the drivers in Windows 7 without a problem.
Anyways, it looks like I might end up choosing Vista to run on my home PC. I’m itchin to start playing some CS:S, Crysis and World in Conflict. 
Yep my Win7 beta was faster than my vista, but my win 7 rc1 is way slower than the beta.
in game play tests im getting 50fps slower in win 7
thats with a x2 4400 and ati 9.3 vista/7 driver
was the fast beta just a M$ trick to start a buzz :/
That wouldn’t surprise me if windows did something like that to create hype.