Valve Survey Released

[Mooga]

Valve has been doing a hardware survey via steam for quite a while now I they have recently released the results. It's interested to see where all the systems line up.

And some things are actually unexpected or worth looking at.
Only 5.36% are running Vista
1.24% have a DX 10 GPU (with Vista)
76.51% have mics
2.87% have multiple displays

LINK (http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html)

[skuLL]

Unless I miss my guess, about 20% are using multi-core processors.

[Ihmhi]

Quad cores? Holy shit. A quad core with a motherboard is like $1,200...

[uBeR]

They do surveys after like every update and publish the next week.

[GhOsT]

Quad cores? Holy shit. A quad core with a motherboard is like $1,200...
Or more like $650 - $750....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017

They'll be dropping down even more at some point.

[Ihmhi]

I said with motherboard. But still, that is a lot cheaper... I tried looking for a motherboard & proc bundle for that and I was hard pressed to find anything over a grand.

[GhOsT]

Just how much do you think a motherboard costs?! That chip is $530. A motherboard will run you anywhere from $70-$250 depending on the bells and whistles you want on it.

My guess is that you are looking at the core 2 extremes which are more.

[Ihmhi]

No, it was Quad Core... I remember looking up motherboards for a customer at Tiger Direct. I think it was Socket 775? I did a search and then for kicks sorted price high to low. The one at the top was "Intel Quad Core" with Motherboard and was priced at something like $1,229.

This was like two months ago though.

[tu!]

june 24 - Q6600 - $299 US. price drop coming very soon.

[Mooga]

Quad cores? Holy shit. A quad core with a motherboard is like $1,200...

There were 11 people with 8-cores. I mean seriously, can Windows even USE 8 cores!?

[GhOsT]

the NT kernel (what XP is based off of) can support up to like 64 or something like that. The vast majority of games on the other hand can not, at least for now. Source will be getting multi core support with the Episode 2 stuff.

Multi core machines right now are only really useful for doing a bunch of stuff at the same time or things that do support multi-cores like video encoding and stuff like that.

[Fail]

Quad Core and above is the next wave in video game advancement. Anyways, I really hope that Dx10 thing sends a message to developers.

[Mooga]

Quad Core and above is the next wave in video game advancement. Anyways, I really hope that Dx10 thing sends a message to developers.

There are TWO reasons why very few people have DX10.
1) There are very few cards out that support DX10.
2) DX10 is only supported within Vista (to my knowledge)

And the truth is that as of currently, Vista isn't doing all too well.
Dell still sells computers with XP BC there is still a high need.

[Fjorn]

I hope vista dies and the people respocible for it die in a fire

[Vorm]

I hope vista dies and the people respocible for it die in a fire


You need serious help. Tosser!

[nodnarb]

I like the look of Vista, but I wish it was more conservative, so to speak, with the memory usage

[Mooga]

The only "good thing" about Vista that I've heard about is it's GUI.
But I think it's less that Vista has a great GUI, but that XP's GUI is compleatly ASS. OS X and all the *nix GUIs are MUCH better then windows XP and probably Vista.