Valve Releases November Steam Hardware Survey: Vista, Multi-core CPUs Gain Ground

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Valve has released the results of its November PC hardware survey, a compilation of statistics taken directly from users of its Steam digital distribution network.

Over the last four months, technologies that have gained statistical ground include: Intel CPUs (4% gain), multi-core CPUs (6%), ATI GPUs (2%), Vista (5%) and DirectX 10 GPUs (7%). Nvidia and Intel both hold around a 65% share of their respective categories over competitors ATI and AMD, while 21.43% of machines are DirectX 10-capable.

The most common (median) user of Steam runs an Intel CPU in the 2.3-2.9GHz range (20%), with 2GB or more of RAM (56%), and an Nvidia GeForce 8800 (12%).

Display Highlights:

  • 28.64% use 16:9 aspect primary displays, up over 25.70% in May
  • 37.40% run their primary display at 1280 x 960
  • 25.56% run their primary display at 1024 x 768
Hard Drive Highlights:
  • 42.92% have more than 250GB in HDD capacity, up over 32.59% in May
  • The most common amount of free HDD space was above 250 GB (13.97%)
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    December 12, 2008 3:56 PM

    I like when Valve releases this info. I'm always curious to see what the public is using.

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      December 12, 2008 3:59 PM

      Look at those bads with less than 512 ram :(

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        December 12, 2008 4:25 PM

        Yeah that's insane. Ram is so cheap now a days.

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          December 13, 2008 10:23 AM

          They're either Counter-Strike players with low end systems or they're people with accounts just playing PopCap games on low end machines.

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      December 12, 2008 4:40 PM

      It is very cool of them to share the data with everyone.

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        December 12, 2008 5:54 PM

        Indeed! Some people would pay a good deal of money to get such numbers..

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          December 13, 2008 3:21 AM

          i) It's information we provide them with. They'd be cunts if they'd sell it.
          ii) If they sold it, the information would eventually leak anyway.

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