Valve's November Hardware Survey Shows Gamers Prefer Intel, Nvidia. Also, The Sky is Blue
Posted 12/16/08 at 02:38:13 PM by Andy Salisbury
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According to Valve’s November hardware report, a majority of you gamers using Steam are favoring Windows XP, Nvidia graphics cards and Intel processors.
These numbers come as very little surprise. Windows XP has remained dominant for gamers due to a lack of any significant DirectX 10 enabled titles, Nvidia has been heavily strutting their stuff in the graphics game and Intel is up to their usual, benchmark-crushing shenanigans.
The exact numbers show that there really is a startling majority. 70 percent of users were running Windows XP, 65 percent viewing on Nvidia, and 64 percent thinking with Intel.
Be sure to check out the survey yourself and check out what piece of the pie you reside in!
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Well atleast i'm not the
Submitted by GFC on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 11:54pm
I guess i'm from majority, XP SP3 (With Vista skin) + Geforce and good old pentium 4 ;)
LIES!
Submitted by FrancesTheMute on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 8:27pm
LIES! the sky is not blue, it's a putrid shade of burnt umbar......
I'm close to the norm: Intel, nVidia but I run Vista x64
I'm on Ubuntu with a Nvidia
Submitted by dankers on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 5:14pm
I'm on Ubuntu with a Nvidia card and AMD processor. I don't really fit in anywhere.I also don't use Steam.
Submitted by ProtoJMB on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 1:45pm
I am in that majority that uses Intel CPU's (I have a 3 GHz Pentium D), and nVidia GPU's (I have a 9800GTX+).
HOWEVER, I use Windows XP Pro x64! While a lot of people use XP itself, very few are using XP x64, which I find to be far superior.
Intersesting
Submitted by nmanguy on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 1:31pm
I used to like AMD cpus and nVidia gpus, but now I always prefer Intel and ATI for CPUs and GPUs, and since AMD looks like it's going to die off, and nVidia can't seem to use less that 1.21 gigawatts per card, I don't think it will cahnge my opinions anytime soon.
Submitted by ronf57 on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 1:08pm
OK we all know the ONLY choice for some time now has been INTEL for the CPU, but what interests me is are there any statistics showing how the ATI 4870, 4850 and 4870 x2 have affected the data.
Have Gamers been asked whether the NVIDIA substrate chip issue affected their purchase choices?
I am not a AMD/ATI fan boy nor a NVIDIA hater, I own and use both until the ATI 48xx series there only was one video choice as i said before IS the case with CPU choice. OK you do have a choice Intel Quad Core Q6xxx or INTEl Quad Core I-7.
With the Video card it is a matter of price performance once again...finally.
Submitted by soccer1105 on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 2:45pm
just what i was thinking. i've been an AMD fan for a long time, but i've finally had enough and i'm going to core i7. But why is nvidia so strong. the performance/dollar ratio is way better for ATI.
Hmm....
Submitted by maniacm0nk3y on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 9:34pm
I'm guessing it's because AMD cards always come out after nVidia and by the time AMDs cards get traction nVidia brings something else out. Bad timing? Idk, but it's just a guess.
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