New Valve hardware statistics

This is not about notebook hardware per se but still instructive for those of us thinking about how to equip our notebooks for gaming.

Valve has tossed the old hardware survey and restarted from scratch. For fresh results of their latest hardware survey go to:

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

Valve's announcement:

http://www.steampowered.com/Steam/Marketing/message/1064/

Got the news through Slashdot.

 

Surprised at how many people have the nVidia 6600 and also how many of them have less than 2 GB of RAM.

 

1gig ram and dual 6600gt's on my desktop

 

Damn I need to get those network speeds

lol some of that stuff nearer the bottom is just for the stat fan isn't it?

 

My own hardware looks like crap but then again my laptop is 3 years old and my desktop over 5 years old. I do not tend to keep up with the joneses but try to group my upgrades together. I also don't buy the lastest and greatest as far as graphic cards go or even CPUs. I typically aim for the bend in the price curve, maybe a little higher if I want to spoil myself.

 

The 6600gt was such a popular card because of it's bang for buck. That along with 1 gig of ram and an amd processor (3200+) got you a good gaming setup for a cheap price. That's why many have that card. The core 2 duo setup with 2 gigs of ram and a nvidia dx10 card is the new great value/performance system now.

 

haha nice SLi (95% vs Crossfire (4%) , im one of the 4%

 

Ironically enough, I'm selling my desktop with a 6600GT and 1GB of RAM. XD

 

Nice link.

The coloring scheme they use seems to bias the results towards nVidia over ATI.

 

Er, how do you mean?

 

Not really, I mean when I think of Nvidia I think of the green logo and when I think of ATI, I think of their red logo.

 

I'm glad to see that users are updating their video card drivers. I remember last year most users were still in the 70's and 80's (Nvidia).

Mike.