LiNuX
11-06-2010, 10:27 AM
Every once in a while, Steam does a survey of its gamers where it gathers information on the type of hardware and software their gamers use. I found it interesting. You can read through everything here: Steam Hardware & Software Survey (http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/)
But I thought I'd post some directly that specifically interests me because of my love of computers! So I'll list the product followed by the percentage of the Steam users that use it:
Windows 7 64 bit - 33.37% - took the lead
Windows XP 32 bit - 26.55%
4GB RAM - 26%
3GB RAM - 27%
2GB RAM - 24%
2 CPUs - 55.46%
4 CPUs - 31.99%
1 CPUs - 10.69%
8 CPUs - 0.16% - I wanna be in this category...
nVidia GPU Users - 59.11%
ATI GPU Users - 32.98%
Intel Users - 6.22% - not even worth it imo
Intel CPU users - 72.37%
AMD CPU users - 27.63% - needs to rise - AMD is awesome
75.92% Of gamers have a Microphone
17.25% Do not
Mozilla Firefox - 63.05% - I guess most gamers are firefox lovers
Microsoft Internet Explorer - 19.82%
Google Chrome - 11.56% - needs to increase
Norton AntiVirus - 1.78% -
iTunes - 30.73% - expected this to be higher
TeamSpeak - 17.99%
Ventrilo - 17.38% - same with TS and Vent
Here are just a handful of the stats in there. Very interesting and I usually take it every time steam asks me to so I've been seeing some things change (Like firefox rising in the past few years).
But I thought I'd post some directly that specifically interests me because of my love of computers! So I'll list the product followed by the percentage of the Steam users that use it:
Windows 7 64 bit - 33.37% - took the lead
Windows XP 32 bit - 26.55%
4GB RAM - 26%
3GB RAM - 27%
2GB RAM - 24%
2 CPUs - 55.46%
4 CPUs - 31.99%
1 CPUs - 10.69%
8 CPUs - 0.16% - I wanna be in this category...
nVidia GPU Users - 59.11%
ATI GPU Users - 32.98%
Intel Users - 6.22% - not even worth it imo
Intel CPU users - 72.37%
AMD CPU users - 27.63% - needs to rise - AMD is awesome
75.92% Of gamers have a Microphone
17.25% Do not
Mozilla Firefox - 63.05% - I guess most gamers are firefox lovers
Microsoft Internet Explorer - 19.82%
Google Chrome - 11.56% - needs to increase
Norton AntiVirus - 1.78% -
iTunes - 30.73% - expected this to be higher
TeamSpeak - 17.99%
Ventrilo - 17.38% - same with TS and Vent
Here are just a handful of the stats in there. Very interesting and I usually take it every time steam asks me to so I've been seeing some things change (Like firefox rising in the past few years).