Steam Hardware survey results for Dec
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http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Looks like a lot of people use Nvidia/Intel with quad cores. I wonder when the anti-trust monopoly suits will start flying around...
Looks like a lot of people use Nvidia/Intel with quad cores. I wonder when the anti-trust monopoly suits will start flying around...
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I dont want to be mediocre!
(+2.45%) 15.61%
Windows 7
(+0.02%) 7.45%
Whoa, Windows 7 has a nice little market share already. I'm very happy to see that 64-bit is leading!
I'm curious why you would think that? Nvidia and Intel really seem to make the majority of the decent trustworthy hardware. Well especially Intel, AMD is just budget stuff compared to Intel. Seems fair they have more marketshare then ?
I'm running a Core2Duo E6600 2.4ghz, GeForce 9800GT 320MB, Vistax64 and only 3GB of ram.
I'd like to have a quad core and at least 8GB of ram. Right now having Max and Photoshop open for a few hours starts to chug, let alone having firefox or UDK open alongside it =\
firefox has memory leaks and really needs to be closed and reopened every hour or so, I think more ram would really help.
I have core 2 quad 2.67ghz, 8gb dual channel ram, Nvidia gtx260 top 768mb, windows 7 pro 64bit.
q9450 @ 3.2ghz 9800gt 8 gig ram (build myself 2 years ago for 1.2k)
I really want to get a better video card and sdd drive
Right now I use a dual-core 3.06Ghz Intel with 4GB DDR3 and 256MB VRAM, also it is built into a 27"inch +HD monitor and has a little logo of an apple on it :poly128:
All right, another Q9450! I've got mine running at 3.45ghz on a Zalman air cooler, and I'm also rocking 8GB of RAM. My last upgrade in October was to add an Intel X-25M G2 80GB SSD hard drive as my boot drive (along with Windows 7). I installed the Adobe suite on it, and Photoshop loads with all of my brushes and plugins in about 1.5 seconds.
I highly recommend an SSD if you can find a good deal on one. I paid $235 for mine (now it's back up to $285 for those who have it in stock) back in October off of NewEgg, but I got $120 of free gifts along with it that I sold to make back a little money.
Its a prebuilt hp pavillion, but it plays crysis on high (not ultra) and only costed 650
Also... it looks like AMD already filed one...
http://news.cnet.com/AMD-files-antitrust-suit-against-Intel/2100-1001_3-5765844.html
http://unity3d.com/webplayer/hwstats/pages/web-2009Q4-gfxvendor.html
That suit got settled a few months ago...Intel paid AMD $1.25 Billion in damages.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8357266.stm
Im pretty disappointing in AMD tbh as i have always had their processors but they have really dropped the ball and are 2 generations behind intel in terms of performance :S
Its great that the GPUs are giving Nvidia a run for their money though...decent competition makes for better and cheaper hardware
Yup, me too. Always liked nvidia better than ATI, no rush for me to buy a new card yet, but when I will it'll probably be a 300-series card. Their midperformance-cards are usually very good value for your money. Give me some of that DX11 goodness!
I feel even /more/ sorry for people with 1280x1024 (biggest share in the Steam survey, and pretty high up in the Unity one). Whichever genius came up with that resolution is a tit.