Windows 7 beta install help

[Nocky24]

I'm thinking of changing my current mobo, cpu, memory setup with the 4.00Ghz oc'ed i7 bundle on here, but i just need to know what i need to do with my hard drive.

At the moment it has an oem version of vista 64bit premium installed and was thinking of installing the windows 7 64bit beta over it and then installing the new mobo, cpu, memory.

Would this work? and would i have to install windows 7 before the bundle install or after and then boot windows 7 from a dvd?

Any help will be much appreciated, thanks

PS this question is seen in the general hardware section of the forum but then thought this section was better suited, sorry i'm not trying to spam.

 

[Nocky24]

Install your new components @ stock settings
Clean install Win 7 x64
Install mobo, GFX, sound card drivers etc/Win 7 updates
Overclock your new parts.

Whats the point in a preoverclocked bundle if installing windows again (which i presume you have to do after a mobo change) means you have to downclock and then re-overclock yourself?

 

[Nocky24]

Because you're paying for some assurance the components have been tested and overclock stably. Installing and configuring all your components, software and drivers at stock settings is just good advice.

Thanks for the reply mate just wondered, i'll take your advice onboard . However i've been looking at some of the reviews of the bundles and people have just been connecting eveything up and installing windows again, one even hooked up his old OS as it was before the hardware change. Is that just a case of it will work but its just bad practice?

 

[Nocky24]

Honestly it'd probably be fine anyway. Without knowing the exact settings these bundles are using there's no way of knowing how hard they're being pushed, but modern Intel chips overclock so easily it's unlikely to be anything drastic. I'd just go ahead and do it, and on the off-chance you do have any stability issues during the setup consider dropping back to stock settings and overclocking again once everything is running sweet - if it's a GigaByte board that's easy enough to do with the DualBIOS.

Ok cheers, i'll probably try and do a clean install after i've installed the new hardware. Just wondering whether to go with windows 7 64bit or vista 64bit as i think there might be driver issues and punkbuster issues with windows 7? What do you think?