Here are the major findings: you prefer Intel systems to AMD, you prefer NVIDIA graphics cards to ATI, and the majority of you now have at least a dual-core system.
While it’s always fun/heart-breaking comparing your own rig to that of the masses, I found one thing amusing; 97.98% of polled users had a DVD drive, something I do not. I’d always felt comfortable with this, games and other media being so easily available digitally these days, but now, I feel a little… alone.
Captain Strong
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 2:25 PMPeople have better computers than me… :(
Anon
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 3:30 PMLets not be forgetting those figures only come from PC gamers who HAVE Steam and agreed to send the info. It doesn’t represent all PC gamers.
Larfin_Man
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 3:32 PMMy AMD 5000+ is above average =D but I want a dual core i7, which I’m sure everyone does
Alas, my 9500GT drags me down to average
mambodog
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 3:54 PMYou mean a quad core i7?
Larfin_Man
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 5:23 PMI’d get much better use out of a high clocked dual core than a low/medium clocked quad core. Besides, the i7 has a virtual thread for each physical core/thread, so that’s 4 threads anyway (unless I’m mistaken)
Korwin
Monday, January 11, 2010 at 7:35 AMi7′s only come in quad core flavours… so do i5′s. The upcomming i3′s are dual but those are the replacements for the old celeron line.
Larfin_Man
Monday, January 11, 2010 at 1:02 PMActually Arrandale i5/i7 is dual core but unfortunately only mobile, not desktop.
Clarkdale is dual core, which is a desktop processor, but won’t be sold as an i7. I guess what I want is an i5 dual core then =P
Nath
Monday, January 11, 2010 at 8:13 AMWow I know nothing about computers. Those 2 sentences showed me.
Mr Waffle
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 3:55 PMIt’s funny that PC gaming hardware has kind of stagnated the last few years. I mean my 4 year old 8800GTX is enough to play virtually any game at max settings. But 4 years ago, a 4-year-old video card would’ve been a joke that couldn’t run anything. I suppose some people will blame that on consoles stalling hardware advancement, but I think it’s probably more the fact that it’s harder and harder to improve on graphics etc as we get more and more advanced.
Fracture
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 4:37 PMMR waffle what are your power bills like though
Aaron Thomas
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 7:04 PMRofl, yeah I use to have 2 x 8800GTX in SLI, that rig used so much damn power it made the house lights flicker when you powered it up :)
I’m using a 295GTX now, it’s alot more compact and doesn’t need the same power levels :)
Paul Newman
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 6:52 PMWaffle needs a bigger screen with full aa