Go Back   Hardware Canucks > NEWS & REVIEWS > Press Releases & Tech News
Reload this Page Valve Hardware Survey
Mark Forums Read
Media Gallery Register Members List LAN Calendar Search Today's Posts

    
Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old May 15, 2008, 01:39 PM
Allstar
  
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 550
Default Valve Hardware Survey
The folks at Valve have updated their hardware survey again posting the most popular CPU, GPU, operating system, amount of RAM and more. Interesting stuff. Of the 1,724,108 systems in the survey, some of the most popular hardware was:

Network speed: 2,048.0 Kbps
System RAM: 2GB and above
Processor Vendor: Intel
CPU Speed: 2.3GHz - 2,69GHz
Video Card: GeForce 8800
VRAM: 256MB
OS: Windows XP


More...
Reply With Quote
  #2 (permalink)  
Old May 19, 2008, 02:28 PM
darksideleader's Avatar
Top Prospect
  
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Mississauga
Posts: 127
Default
hmm... alot of people still use the Radeon 9xxx series.
Reply With Quote
  #3 (permalink)  
Old May 19, 2008, 05:50 PM
ebdoradz's Avatar
Allstar
  
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Rouyn-Noranda, QC
Posts: 754
Default
ans single core CPU

its interesting to see that onlu 36-37% of ppl out there have a dual core cpu, and that less then 7% have quad core

also80% of ppl use XP which isnt a suprise
__________________
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P / AMD Phenom II x3 720BE @ x4/ Crucial Ballistic DDR3 / Sapphire 4830 512mb / Corsair 620W PSU / 2*80GB Seagate

DFI LP nF4 Ultra-D / AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.7Ghz/ 2*1GB OCZ Gold GX XTC / Sapphire X1950XT / Fortron 450W PSU / 2*Maxtor 80Gb


Reply With Quote
  #4 (permalink)  
Old May 19, 2008, 07:09 PM
MpG's Avatar
MpG MpG is offline
Hall Of Fame
  
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Kitchener, ON
Posts: 3,143
Default
I like looking at these stats.

1,772 people are running an AMD CPU at 3.7 GHz or higher - nice!

Somewhere, somebody is running Steam on a 5" monitor. Someone else, a 6" monitor. 573 other people, a 7" monitor.

I've heard that Valve is looking strongly at removing DX7 support in future installments of their Source engine. Gonna be some people panicking when that happens!

They really need to recategorize their blocks for hard disk capacities though. These days, differentiating between 230Mb and 240Mb is kind of redundant.
__________________
i7 2600K | ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z | 580GTX | Corsair DDR3-2133
Reply With Quote
  #5 (permalink)  
Old May 19, 2008, 07:38 PM
Hall Of Fame
F@H
  
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: AB
Posts: 1,212
Default
this is some pretty interesting information.
__________________

vista 64 on these rigs
Q9450 @ 3.5Ghz | E8400 @ 4.2Ghz
8gb Muskin Redline. | 2gb Kingston Hyperx
________________________________|_________________ ______________
EVGA 780i FTW ----\--||___||--/---- EVGA 780i SLI
Antec TP Quatro 1000W \ :==^==: / Antec TP Quatro 850W.
Nvidia 9800 GX2 X 2 SLI \|--o--|/ Nvidia 8800 GTS X 2 SLI
1X 500GB Western Digital. \_____/ 3X 150GB WD RAPTOR RAID-0
Reply With Quote
  #6 (permalink)  
Old May 21, 2008, 12:50 PM
Digitaldemon's Avatar
MVP
F@H
  
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: 2 miles south of heaven.. east of eden
Posts: 307
Default
very informative... =) that there are interesting platforms out there.. via.. most i gather are done by boutique or premade pc's... or laptops
__________________


Reply With Quote
  #7 (permalink)  
Old May 21, 2008, 01:29 PM
CanadaRox's Avatar
Allstar
F@H
  
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Scarborough (Toronto)
Posts: 614
Default
They should split the ram up some more for >2GB, as well as >250GB HDD space.

And WOW! at the three people that have 127 cores (if thats not just a screw up).
__________________
Project: Black and White
i7 920 D0 | 3 x 2GB DDR3 | EVGA X58 SLI LE
XFX 4890 | Corsair HX750 | Corsair Obsidian
Reply With Quote
Reply


« Previous Thread | Next Thread »
Thread Tools
Display Modes
Linear Mode Linear Mode