One of Valve's biggest benefits it gets from its Steam download service is finding out exactly what people have in their PC rigs via a voluntary survey. Today Valve released the latest results of their hardware survey (covering the period between Nov. 15, 2008 and May 15, 2008).The results make for some fascinating reading and speculation. Among the highlights:
- Intel accounts for 58.48 percent of PC processors in the survey compared to AMD's 41.51 percent
- Video cards based on NVIDIA Geforce chips took up the top eight places on the survey list; the highest ATI based card was the Radeon 9600.
- Gamers still apparently have small monitors for the most part; the highest percentage is for 16 inch monitors with 25.8 percent. Only 6 71 percent of survey owners have monitors that are larger that 21 inches.
- 64.49 percent of PC owners in the Steam survey have microphones
- Windows XP still is installed in a whopping 80.92 percent of PCs in the survey; over a year after its launch Windows Vista is installed in only 17.61 percent of PCs (that includes the 64-bit version)
- 32.59 percent of PC owners in the Valve survey have hard drives that are higher than 250 GB.
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I'm embarassed about my crappy hardware so I choose not to participate for fear of a pop-up dialog full of ridicule and personal attacks. I imagine that thousands like me also hide their sham, so it skews the results.Posted at 4:13PM on May 15th 2008 by Firtch