Steam Tells Us Which Hardware Has Game
Every once in a while Steampowered survey results turn up some interesting numbers about the gaming PCs that are used by today's modern gamers. So what's hot with gamers today?
According to the survey: 2+ GB of RAM (More than 40%), Vista (almost 15%...not bad considering the extra resources it claims), and strangely enough single core CPUs which account for almost 60% of the current CPU powering today's gaming rigs.
Strangely enough rigs with 4 CPU cores (Either quad-core or dual socket) aren't used in many machines (less than 4%), and CPU speeds we'd term low-to-mid seem to be the most common. Since this is a gaming community we were honestly predicting that mid-to-high end CPUs would be the order of the day.
Last but not least is the news that NVIDIA based graphics cards hold a significant edge over arch rival AMD/ATI's cards. The top 7 slots belong to NVIDIA with only the Radeon x1950 making it into the top 10 at number 8.
How does your gaming rig stack up against these figures?
According to the survey: 2+ GB of RAM (More than 40%), Vista (almost 15%...not bad considering the extra resources it claims), and strangely enough single core CPUs which account for almost 60% of the current CPU powering today's gaming rigs.
Strangely enough rigs with 4 CPU cores (Either quad-core or dual socket) aren't used in many machines (less than 4%), and CPU speeds we'd term low-to-mid seem to be the most common. Since this is a gaming community we were honestly predicting that mid-to-high end CPUs would be the order of the day.
Last but not least is the news that NVIDIA based graphics cards hold a significant edge over arch rival AMD/ATI's cards. The top 7 slots belong to NVIDIA with only the Radeon x1950 making it into the top 10 at number 8.
How does your gaming rig stack up against these figures?
