Steam Hardware Survey: Mac Gamers Have More RAM, Faster Processors...Or Do They?
Around this time last month, Valve officially opened up its Steam platform to the Mac community, and in doing so helped chip away at the argument that Macs suck for gaming. What they also did was reveal some interesting statistics about the machines their users are running.
As Steampowered forum member and Mac user "90rmbrown" points out, "facts are facts," and according to the latest Steam Hardware Survey, the average Steam gamer running an Apple computer has a beefier system than those running a Windows-based PC, at least in some areas. Mac users, for example, have more RAM (4GB vs 2GB) on average, while half of those running a Mac have an Internet connection of 2Mbps or higher, compared to 28 percent of PC users. Mac users are also more likely to have a dual-core processor running at 2.3GHz to 2.69GHz, or higher.
Before you whip out the pitchforks and light the torches, there are some things to note here. The sample size of Mac users is significantly smaller than that of PC users, so the hardware breakdown is dubious at best. And where it really counts for gaming -- in the graphics department -- PC gamers have more video RAM, and probably beefier videocards as well.
So what can we take from all this? As Sean Portnoy at ZDNet writes, PC gamers are still getting by with older hardware, while the early influx of Mac users with refreshed hardware could benefit from better graphics. Other than that, there isn't a whole lot to say -- we'll still take a PC over a Mac any day, especially when it comes to gaming.
What hardware are you running? Post your specs in the comments section below.
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PeacemakerTX
November 10, 2010 at 10:06am
MSI X58 Eclipse SLI (MS-7520) BIOS Ver. 1.9
Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition @ 3.4GHz
CoolIt Freezone Elite CPU Cooler
12GB DDR3 (2-3x2GB Hi Perf Kit) Corsair Dominator Series Extreme Edition @ 1866MHz
Dual EVGA nVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 1.792GB (PCIe X2 in SLI mode)
Creative Labs X-FI Extreme Audio (PCIe)
WDC Velociraptor 300GB (x 2), 10,000RPM, SATA II, 16MB Cache
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB (x 2), 7200RPM, SATA II, 32MB Cache
LG Electronics GGW-H20L Blu-Ray/DVD/RW Dual Layer (w/LightScribe) (SATA II)
Samsung SH-S203N DVD-RAM/RW Dual Layer (w/LightScribe) (SATA II)
Lian Li Internal Multimedia Card Reader
PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200 ESA Power Supply 1.2KW (PPCT1200ESA)
LG Flatron W2486L 24" Widescreen HDMI LED (1900 x 1080)
Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000
Logitech X-530 5.1 Surround Sound
Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse (USB)
Enermax KB0007U-B Keyboard (USB)
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Lian Li PC-A71 Advantage Series Full Tower Case
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PeacemakerTX
November 10, 2010 at 10:05am
MSI X58 Eclipse SLI (MS-7520) BIOS Ver. 1.9
Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition @ 3.4GHz
CoolIt Freezone Elite CPU Cooler
12GB DDR3 (2-3x2GB Hi Perf Kit) Corsair Dominator Series Extreme Edition @ 1866MHz
Dual EVGA nVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 1.792GB (PCIe X2 in SLI mode)
Creative Labs X-FI Extreme Audio (PCIe)
WDC Velociraptor 300GB (x 2), 10,000RPM, SATA II, 16MB Cache
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB (x 2), 7200RPM, SATA II, 32MB Cache
LG Electronics GGW-H20L Blu-Ray/DVD/RW Dual Layer (w/LightScribe) (SATA II)
Samsung SH-S203N DVD-RAM/RW Dual Layer (w/LightScribe) (SATA II)
Lian Li Internal Multimedia Card Reader
PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200 ESA Power Supply 1.2KW (PPCT1200ESA)
LG Flatron W2486L 24" Widescreen HDMI LED (1900 x 1080)
Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000
Logitech X-530 5.1 Surround Sound
Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse (USB)
Enermax KB0007U-B Keyboard (USB)
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Lian Li PC-A71 Advantage Series Full Tower Case
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bergz
September 21, 2010 at 3:18pm
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Gary1847
September 20, 2010 at 12:55pm
Well, my coment from before doesn't seem to have made it so if it does appear, please allow me a little slack.
I have 6 computers,
1) Thermaltake Xaser 4000 eatx case, Asus Rampage III Formula mobo, i7 920 intel cpu, 12 gigs ddr3 xmp ram, 3 terabyte hdds, gtx260 nvidia win7 ultimate x64 twin HP2207w hdmi monitors
2) Thermaltake Xaser 4000 case, Asus P6x58d Premium mobo, i7 920 Intel cpu, 12 gigs ddr3 xmp ram, 750 gig hdd, gtx 275 nvidia, win 7 ultimate x64 42 inch plasma tv....Wifes gaming rig!
3) Antec full tower case, Asus P5K-E wifi premium mobo, Q6600 Quad core cpu, 8 gigs ddr2 ram, 4 terabyte hdds,xfx gtx9800 nvidia, Windows Home Server "Vail second release, twin Acer 22 inch monitors
4) CoolerMaster Full tower case, Asus P6T mobo, 12 gigs xmp ddr3 ram, i7 920 intel cpu, 750 gig hdd, gtx 9500 nvidia, Win 7 home premium x64, twin hp2207w hdmi monitors
5) Silverstone Home Theater Case, Gigabyte P35-DS3L mobo, Core 2 duo 3ghz cpu, gt220 nvidia, 6 terabytes hdds,Win7 Ultimate x64, 47 inch Sharp Aquios LED flat screen, Hauppage 1800 tv card, Soundblaster X-Fi sound card running XBMC media center
6) 17 inch Laptop, 4 gigs ram, 500 gigs hdd, Win Vista Ultimate x64
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FRAGaLOT
July 20, 2010 at 11:26am
This isn't supprising since Apple is notorious about orphaning thier old users, and Apple is one of those few companies where any new hardware they produce is a "must have." There are little to no Mac users who are left that are running on a PowerPC anymore. Considering now Macs have the exact same parts as a standard PC, can run Windows and linux, it's not supprising porting over games from Steam to OSX is a no brainer, since they have a much larger market share ever since Apple went onto the intel bandwagon.
Where as PC users, we don't get orphaned by Microsoft every 2 years. Hell they just now completely dropped windows 2000 support this month, and how old is that OS? So a lot of PC users don't NEED to upgrade, considering most of the games on stream are about 10 yearsold, there's no need to get a decked out gaming machine.
I'm acctually planning on buying a macbook pro hopefully by the end of the year, but ill keep my PC for desktop needs.
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djpuncher
June 23, 2010 at 10:50am
COOLER MASTER Storm Scout SGC-2000-KKN1-GP Black Steel case
AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.48Ghz on air
OCZ Platinum DDR2 1066 x 8GB
ASUS 750a SLI
Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition x2 in SLI
I'll always take a PC over a Mac to due the simple fact that you can upgrade any part that is needed, it is also cheaper to repair and you have less down time. Gaming on a Mac with default settings on games you will not see much of a difference, some Macs are packing pretty decent video cards in them. But, if you ever want to upgrade or change that card, you are most likey to have to get a new computer all together. The new Mac Pro has availible upgrade slots, but it also starts at $2499. You can almost build two of what I have listed above for that price, and get a lot more out of it.
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zulfy26
June 20, 2010 at 4:21pm
Lian Li PC 65-b w/ custom window, 120mm fans, top blowhole, etc.
Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3
AMD Phenom II X6 1095T @3.8 on air
OCZ Gold DDR3 2x4GB
HIS ATI HD5870
1TB Seagate Baracuda 7200.12
1TB WD Caviar Black
3x 500GB seagate barracuda 7200.11
Corsair HX 620 PSU
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Fecal Face
June 19, 2010 at 11:21pm
Maybe their specs have something to do with the fact that the MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, Macbook Air, and Mac Pro all cost ABOVE $1,000.
If all PC's cost above $1,000, our specs would blow them out of the water.
The cheapest Mac Pro is about $3,000, and my ~$1700 PC (in signature) has better specs. That makes me giggle inside. :)
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|Intel Corei7 920|BFG Tech GTX295|Corsair XMS3 6GB RAM|Caviar Black 1TB|Lexa Blackline Red|Razer Mamba + Carcharias + Moray + Destructor|Logitech G15 + X-540|
Zune HD = Happiness
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Baer
June 15, 2010 at 5:23pm
Asus Rampage II Ex, i7 920 OCed to 3.64 Ghz with HT enabled (4 physical and 4 virtual cores), 6 Gb Corsair Dominator GT, 2 300 Gb V-Raptors in RAID 0 (boot and apps) WD 1 Tb RE3 (data), OCZ GTZ 285 OCE, 1KW Corsair PSU, Xonar sound, ASUS optical drives, Tt Armor AL case, Klipsch Ultra 5.1's with an extra 15" sub on lfe, normal other stuff. I will be updating the CPU to a i7980X soon, hoping to get to over 4.5 Ghz.
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Beron
June 15, 2010 at 9:35am
Intel Q6700 processor
EVGA 680i mobo
EVGA 8800 GTS SSC x2 SLI
4 GB RAM
250 GB HD 7200 RPM
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SJester
June 11, 2010 at 4:40pm
The survey also misses a critical point, as someone else raised, that there are no inexpensive Macs. I run Steam on my primary system, a Q6600 with an 8800 GTS, both overclocked, but I also play with Steam on my kids' computer with an AMD X2 5000+ and Radeon 4350. Heck, I play hours of Altitude via Steam on my first-gen Aspire One with a nine inch screen!
So my stats alone include a last-gen quad core, another dual core, and an Atom! Yet my hardware is probably better than much of the Apple users playing.
Lastly, the Apple users who installed Steam as soon as it became available probably were from the more tech savvy vanguard. My sister still loves her creaky G4 and thinks Steam is something to warm a house in winter.
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SamhainKnight
June 11, 2010 at 11:48am
My Rig
Intel Core i7 920 CPU 2.67GHz
eVGA X58 SLI LE Motherboard
6 GB OCZ Reaper PC15000 1866MHz DDR3 Triple Channel RAM 3x2
eVGA Geforce GTX 260 Video Card x2 SLI
Prolima Tech Mega Shadow CPU Cooler
x2 Noiseblocker M12-P 120mm Fans CPU Fans
Antec 900 Chassis
x2 Western Digital 500GB Black SATAII Hard Drives 32mb CacheRAID0
Plextor PX-712A SATA DVDR
Antec Quattro 1000wt Power Supply
x3 Noiseblocker Black SilentPRO PL-2 120mm Chassis Fans
eVGA Killer Xeno Gaming NIC
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LatiosXT
June 11, 2010 at 7:26am
And this is what I was afraid of. As soon as them Mac guys come into our more or less beloved scene, they start whipping out something for their egos. Goes to show they really know nothing about hardware in general, they just see some numbers and go "OMFG MINE'S BETTER THAN YOURS!". Kind of like the idiot racer who thinks more horsepower and torque means instant win at the racetrack.
I get by just fine on a Core 2 Duo E8400, 6GB of RAM, and a GeForce 8800GT. Which could probably run circles around whatever's in their laptops still. Also, if you compare the game play between PC and Mac OS X, Mac OS X runs a lot worse.
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ronz28
June 11, 2010 at 6:31am
Intel 975XBX2
QX6850 OC'ed 3.51
4GB PC6400
HIS IceQ4 TurboX 4850
RAID10
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armyguy298
June 11, 2010 at 6:24am
Core i7-920
6GB RAM
2-128GB Velociraptors RAID0
nVidia 285GTX
Windows 64bit Home Premium
This system runs everything I can throw at it with all visual effects enabled; no problems.
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nadako
June 11, 2010 at 5:11am
Even though the mac might have a faster processor and more RAM they still play about half the speed compared to PC's. And the majority of the graphics and calculations done for video games are done with the graphics card, the CPU is hardly used.
Intel core 2 quad 2.4GHz
4GB of DDR2
800Watt PSU
V9 Black Edition
GTX 280all for about $1100 Built it over a year ago.
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mesiah
June 11, 2010 at 12:17am
i7- 920
Asus P6T Deluxe
6GB ram
Asus radeon 5870
80GB intel SSD system drive
WD caviar black storage drive
Soundblaster X-fi platinum
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Scatmanbrandt
June 10, 2010 at 9:40pm
I have an Alienware M7700 (Clevo D900T), hoping to upgrade this fall
2 7200rpm sataII drives in raid0
4GB's 800mhz ddr2 ram
Pentium 4 3.8Ghz
Nvidia 7950GTX overclocked, card alone cost me $500 alone just a few months ago because the 6800 fried and the 7950GTX is impossible to find
2 DVD-RW drives
12 cell Li-Ion battery, holds enough charge for 2 seconds of use
Runs pretty much anything decently at extreme graphics but I think I'm ready to upgrade from DX9 and jump to DX11
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Scatmanbrandt
June 11, 2010 at 9:59pm
Before anyone asks, yes it can run Crysis albeit at very low frame rates
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GreenTurtle
June 10, 2010 at 8:19pm
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 OC 3.21
8 gigs ocz 1066 RAM
ASUS Maximus Formula SE Motherboard
two ATI 4870's Crossfire
Extreme SoundFX soundcard
PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750W Power supply
2 LG DVD burners
2 WD 500 gig 7200 rpm HD
Thermaltake liquid cooling system with CPU, GPU, and NB water blocks
22" Samsung Monitor
Custom built case
Ubuntu 64 / Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Dual boot
And my system is old !!!! Still works great though. I can't wait for my next build.
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lll_ll_l_llll_lll
June 10, 2010 at 7:37pm
Come on, folks...it's 2010.
While you're all having a big e-peen circle jerk contest, you're missing out.
What's with all these monster effin machines with mechanical storage (especially for the operating system)?
Do yourselves a favor and go solid state. It's the best improvement you can make, and once you get instant response times you'll wish you would have tossed the turntable a long time ago.
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Caboose
June 11, 2010 at 9:10am
"Do yourselves a favor and go solid state. It's the best improvement you
can make, and once you get instant response times you'll wish you would
have tossed the turntable a long time ago."Sure, just point me towards the 1TB SSD's that I don't have to mortgage my house to buy.
I think I'll wait for the prices to come down a lot before I move my desktop over to an SSD...
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
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Viros
June 10, 2010 at 7:19pm
Case: Antec 1200
CPU: Intel Core i7 920
Mobo: ASUS P6T Deluxe
RAM: 9GB G.Skill DDR3 1333
HDD: WD Caviar Black 640GB
GPU: Sapphire ATI Radeon 5870 1GB Vapor-X
ODD: LG Blu-Ray Burner
PSU: Corsair TX750 750W
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster V8
Sound: Creative X-Fi Titanium PCI-E edition
Keyboard: Logitech G15
Mouse: Logitech G7
Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 5.1
Monitor: ASUS VW246H 24" 1080p
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meangenedrlove
June 10, 2010 at 5:57pm
Antec Fusion Remote Max ATX Media Center Case
OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ500MXSP 500W PSU
GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P
AMD Phenom II X4 810 Deneb 2.6GHz 4
G.SKILL 8GB DDR3 1333
320GB Samsung SpinPoint T Series HD321KJ 7200 rpm HDD (all storage is handled by my WHS w/ 7.6TB of storage)
LG Super Multi Blu-ray Drive Model GGW-H20L
GIGABYTE GV-R485MC-1GI Radeon HD 4850 1GB 256-bit GDDR3
Creative LABS Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCI-E
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1850 PCI-E
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
42 Inch Panasonic Plasma TV
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WardTheSteak
June 10, 2010 at 5:22pm
The mac pro still has the Nvidia gt 120 in it, and that system's base price starts at $3,299.
My system was around $4,200. With specs that it can't even touch for just an extra grand.
Evga X58 3x SLi Classified
6gb DDR3 Ram
Intel Core i7 960 oc'd to 3.8 ghz with liquid cooling.
2 Ati Radeon Sapphire 5870's in crossfire.
2 x 300gb Western Digital Velociraptors in Raid 0 format.
1 x 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda Data Drive
Blu-ray optical Drive
LG Dvd R/RW CD R/RW with lightscribe opical drive.
Razer Naga mouse
Logitech G19 Keyboard.
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makius
June 13, 2010 at 5:31pm
You just made me... well nevermind.
Thats a sweet setup you got there. Do you use any water cooling or is it all on air? Also, what kind of case do you have? I imagine it would have to be equally awesome to fit all that goodness in one case comfortably.
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albe23
June 10, 2010 at 4:27pm
eVGA X51 SLI
eVGA GTX 295
Intel i7 920
Mushkin 6GB DDR3 1066
HT Omega Stryker 7.1
Mushkin 800W
Seagate 7200.12 1TB
Lian-Li Armorsuit PC-P50
"Force has no place where there is need of skill." - Herodotus (484 BC -
430 BC)
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JanSolo
June 10, 2010 at 3:56pm
Dell 30" TFT
Intel E6850
Dual Nvidia 8800GT's in SLI
4gigs of RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
3 WD 10k RPM Raptors in raid 5
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Camerone
June 10, 2010 at 3:56pm
Intel Q9550 2.83ghz
EVGA 750 SLI mobo
4gb DDR2 800
Xion 580 psu
9800GTX+ 1gb
Razer Lycosa keyboard, MS Sidewinder mouse
Acer X223W 21" monitor
As others have said, this comparison doesn't seem too relevant considering the amount of indie and retro games available on Steam that don't require superb video cards. Still, I'll relish the opportunity to upgrade ONE component of my computerat a time thx :)
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Gutter96
June 10, 2010 at 3:47pm
has more gaming power than a Mac even!
Gigabyte EP-45 UD3P
Pentium Dual Core E6500 OC to 3.6GHz
4GB G.Skill DDR2 800
Twin Frozr GTS 250 1GB
Corsair 400CX PSU
500GB Barracuda
DVD Burner
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (awesome btw)
When I was running Windows 7 on it, ut still would max my games at 1680 x 1050 with AA off! Even this craptacular hardware will out game a Mac! :P
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Gutter96
June 10, 2010 at 3:42pm
My gaming rig is as follows:
ASRock 890FX Deluxe 3
Phenom II X6 1055T OC to 3.2GHz with Arctic Cooling Freezer64
4GB DDR3 1600
Twin Frozr Radeon 5850 1GB
1.5TB Barracuda HDD
Corsair 850TX PSU
Blu-Ray/DVD Combo drive
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
All in all it's a pretty rockin rig with plenty of power for me! Plays all my games maxed at 1680 x 1050.
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vig1lant3
June 10, 2010 at 3:28pm
Gamer : DFI
LANParty MI P55-T36, i5 750 @ 3.41Ghz, 4GB DDR3 @ 1700Mhz
MSI Radeon 5770HD @ 930/1320, Silverstone Sugo 05 w/ 380W PS,
COOLER MASTER GeminII S CPU heatsink & fan - 3DMark06 ~
18000Laptop : Asus UL30VT-A1
CPU @ 2.1Ghz, GPU @ 740/930/1680 - 3DMark06 ~ 4100
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HeartBurnKid
June 10, 2010 at 2:48pm
Here's the stats for The Rig:
Phenom II x4 940 @ 3GHz
Biostar 790GX-based mobo
4GB OCZ Platinum DDR2-1066
eVGA GeForce GTX 260 896MB
500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11
Ultra X-Finity 500W power supply
Razer Diamondback mouse
Dell QuietKey keyboard (gonna replace this soon; it's basically filling in because my old Microsoft Natural choked)
All sitting not-so-pretty in an old Antec SX830 case (I don't replace my case very often)
Here's a thought... could it be just because Steam for the Mac is new? I'd imagine the people running older Macs aren't gamers, and are less inclined to go download Steam even though it's available, while on the PC side, we already have a decade's worth of Steam games out there.
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sealeraph
November 01, 2010 at 8:28am
Desktop:
i7-940 @ 3.6 QPI 6.4 w/ CoolerMaster V8
eVGA E758-A1 3-Way SLI
2x eVGA GTX 295 (Not Co-Op) SLI
12GB Corsair Dominator 1600
2x VelociRaptor 300 RAID 0
4x Seagate 2TB RAID 5
SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro
Logitech Z-680
CoolerMaster Cosmos 1000
Enermax Galaxy II 1000w
1x 27" 2x 22" Monitors
Win7 Ult 64bitLaptop:
ASus G51j
i7-720QM
8GB Corsair 1333
Corsair Force 240GB SSD
Seagate 500GB 7200rpm
GTX 260M CUDA 1GB
Win7 Ult 64bitWife's Desktop: (Hand-me-down)
QX6850 @ 3.2 FSB 1600 w/ CoolerMaster V8
P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP@n
eVGA GTX 275
eVGA 8800 Ultra SC
2x Raptor 150 RAID 0
4x Seagate 1TB RAID 5
8GB Corsair Dominator 1600
SB X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro
Enermax Galaxy II 1000w
1x 27" Monitor
Win7 Pro 64bit
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Danthrax66
June 10, 2010 at 2:21pm
Too bad the mac runs all the games worse than a pc a $1200 mac = the performance of a $600 pc for steam games. That being said most of the bad specs for pcs on here are probably because there are people like me that will throw steam on anything to see if it will run games on low settings.
my rig:
Phenom 2 x4 940 @ 3.6
4gb G.Skill ddr2 1066
Asus m3a32 mvp
Sapphire 5870 Vapor-X
Antec 900
Intel 80gb ssd G1
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500gb x2
Samsung dvd
Corsair tx750
Corsair h50
Cooler master 120mm red led fans x5
Logitech G9x
Razer Lycosa
Razer Carcharias
Razer Goliathus
Dell 24"
Fuck Apple.
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publicimage
June 10, 2010 at 2:08pm
Too bad the Steam survey doesn't take price into consideration.
These average specs for Mac users are practically the only choices you have with the iMac and MacBook Pro lines: dual-core and 4GB RAM especially. The cheapest dual-core (*yawn*) iMac is a whopping $1200 while the cheapest 15" (double *yawn*) MacBook "Pro" laptop is $1500. Even the small screen 2GB models are $900 to start... and only recently have those prices been lowered.
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pentastar
June 10, 2010 at 2:18pm
here is a link to my rig at Techpowerup
http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/2059.html
I'll take my home built rig over anything MAC has to offer....PC FTW!!! lol
CPU- Intel i7 920...MOBO- Foxconn Bloodrage...RAM- 6gig G-skill DDR3 1600...HDD- Western Digital 500gig...GPU's- EVGA GTX 285's...PSU- Enermax Revolution 1050 watt...Case- Lian Li A77B...Cooling- Swiftech cpu block-GTZ...Swiftech 3X120mm radiator...Swiftech MCP655 pump...8-120mm fans. Headphones- Sennheiser PC350's
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SANMANx
June 10, 2010 at 1:44pm
ASUS P6T mobo
Core-i7 920 modestly OC'd to 3GHZ
6GB OCZ Plat 1600
XFX Radeon 4890 XT (OC to 875mhz)
850Watt ABS PSU
2 x 1TB seagate Bar. RAID 1
NZXT Tempest Case
Windows 7 Pro x64
I am Recession Proof
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EvilHomerGD
June 10, 2010 at 1:44pm
Intel Core i7 860 @3.4GHz
8GB G.SKILL Ripjaws PC3 12800
XFX Radeon 5770 (soon to be joined by another)
XFX GeForce 8800GT (for Physx... might get pulled for second 5770)
ASUS P7P55 WS SuperComputer
Crucial CT128M255 128GB SSD (OS and Apps)
WD 150GB Velociraptor (additional storage)
1TB WD Green (long-term storage of all my crap)
Corsair 750W PSU
Cooler Master RC-690
LG GGW-H20L BluRay burner
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
HP 2709m 27" monitor
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Shadai
June 10, 2010 at 1:36pm
Lets see.... just for simple lolz....
Asus P6X58D
Core i7 930 Overclocked to 3.4
6 GB corsair RAM
ATI Radeon 5970
2 TB WD HDD
Sexy Antec case.
Yeah!
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gendoikari1
June 10, 2010 at 1:11pm
Phenom II x4 925
XFX Radeon HD 5870
8GB G.Skill DDR2-1066
ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe
640GB WD Velociraptor for OS, media, documents
2TB Hitachi Deskstar for games, backup
Corsair TX750wPlanning to get an Intel X25-V.
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dcmopar10
June 10, 2010 at 12:35pm
790fx mobo (DFI)
phenom II 940 @ 3.2 cooled by zalman 9000 series fan
2 WD 2 Green Terra HD's
300 Raptor for OS/Games
Powercooler OC'ed 5870
3 22 inch samsung monitors = eyefinity
2 sata dvd burners
x-fi fatality
silverstone 750 watt psu
8 gigs of ddr 2 1066
Antect p182 case
logitec z5500 speakers
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ajax344
June 10, 2010 at 12:19pm
on my main pc, i7 965 at ~4.8
MSI Eclipse SLI board
Only 1x 5970, but its a $600 card so no complaints whatsoever
Coolermaster Cosmos ftc (Tyvm max pc)
OCZ 128 SSD
Seagate Barricuda 7200 1tb
6 gigs of ddr3 patriot gaming ram (I dont remember the series name or whatever its called but it was the fastest like 2 months ago)
All water cooled
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smartguy05
June 10, 2010 at 11:30am
+Core i7 920 oc'd to 4.2Ghz
+6 GB Corsair Dominator RAM @ 1300mhz
+Asus Rampage II Extreme Mobo
+150GB VelociRaptor HDD - Primary
+1.5TB Seagate HDD - Secondary
+Thermaltake Modular 850W PSU
+Thermaltake Spedo Advance Case
+40in Sony Bravia LCD TV
+Nvidia GTX 295
+Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
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Marsel
June 10, 2010 at 11:14am
Specs
~AMD Athlon II x4 OC to 3.2GHZ
~G.Skill 800MHZ 6GB RAM
~1TB SATA Seagate 7200RPM
~Samsung OEM DVD Burner
~Cooler Master RS460 460W PSU
~ThermalTake V3 Black Edition
~20" HD Dell monitorRadeon 5770 Vapor-X, OC
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compguytracy
June 10, 2010 at 11:08am
really, an average of 2.6 gig!! i have a stock 3 gig p4 dual core, ocd to 3.16, 4 gb ram, 1.25 tb hdd space, and 1gb ati radeon vid, all for less than a stock mac costs! suck it apple heads! the only program and hardware i use is itunes/ipod as i have over 100gb of music, so a 160 ipod classic for me.
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Techhead26
June 10, 2010 at 11:06am
AMD Dual Core 5400
3gb DDR PC3200
Nvidia 8800GTS
500gb SATA + 200gb SATA
Windows 7 Pro
500W Cooler master power supply.
DVD RW
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sternmyl
June 10, 2010 at 10:56am
Q6600 OC to 3.0 GHz
8GB DDR2 800 RAM
Asus P5Q Pro Turbo
Corsair 750W PSU
XFX 9800GT
WD 500GB 7200RPM HD
OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD
Cooler Master ATCS840 Case
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