Steam Hardware Survey - June '13

[Master&Puppet]

Just thought I'd share this bit of interesting info from Steam. They gather information from across their user base to work out what hardware and software the market is gaming on. Here is June's results.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

I was surprised that windows 8 was still so poorly adopted, I thought steam reported last year that windows 8 64 had been adopted quickly by gamers? Maybe they have all gone back to win7..

Most people have 4 or 8gb of RAM, a 2 or 4 core CPU and an older generation 1GB GPU although a surprising number are using iGPUs. Gaming resolutions are mostly at 1080p although there are still many using 1366*768.

(The CPU speed doesn't take into account overclocks by the way, it is just the model speed.)

M&P

 

[SeekaX]

last time i looked it up i was seriously surprised by how terrible the average PC was. that was about a year ago i think? it has improved, but the average is still rather low i would say. i wonder what the graphs for this forum would look like

 

[Master&Puppet]

last time i looked it up i was seriously surprised by how terrible the average PC was. that was about a year ago i think? it has improved, but the average is still rather low i would say.

Yea it doesn't surprise me that folks don't spend all that much on their PCs but I think generally people are still spending too much on CPUs over GPUs, classic mistake in this market tbh.

I wonder what the graphs for this forum would look like

That would be interesting, although I think I could make a good guess

 

[SuB]

damnit, I did this as soon as it popped up the other day, forgot to look up results. ta v.much

 

[SeekaX]

Yea it doesn't surprise me that folks don't spend all that much on their PCs but I think generally people are still spending too much on CPUs over GPUs, classic mistake in this market tbh.

could be because alienware sells PCs with a stock clocked 3770k and a gtx660ti. people know the term i7, but they don't know the names of high end gpus.

 

[Damien c]

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

I was surprised that windows 8 was still so poorly adopted, I thought steam reported last year that windows 8 64 had been adopted quickly by gamers? Maybe they have all gone back to win7..

Thank's for the link.

As for Windows 8, I personally have a copy of it but I cannot use it since the it crashes as soon as I try to install the drivers for my motherboard, half my games and programs don't load when I want to play/use them.

Tried 8.1 over the weekend and it worked fine until I tried to play COD 4 and then I started getting stupid issues, like everytime the pc booted the sound settings had reset, I had to reboot each time I wanted to play a new game or open a different program up.

I tried to get it working all weekend and nothing was solving the issues, loaded my back up of Windows 7 that I made before trying Windows 8.1 and everything was perfect.


The stupid thing is, though that a fellow clan member was also having serious issues trying to run Windows 8 and he switched from a Creative sound card to a Asus card, then he tried Windows 8 again and he has not had a issue since.

I will try it again once I have bought a new sound card but not holding my breath.

I think though that Windows 8.1 will bring more people to it than Windows 8 did, but I still don't like the Start button but if I can play all the games I want to play without issue and run all the programs etc then I will switch to Windows 8.1 and if needed I will just put something like Start8 or Classicshell on.

I do also think that Windows 7 is another Windows XP though and that most people will stick with it, till they have no choice but to switch.

 

[Fetzie]

could be because alienware sells PCs with a stock clocked 3770k and a gtx660ti. people know the term i7, but they don't know the names of high end gpus.

Actually most store-bought PCs have an i7 (non-K SKU) and a low-end graphics card (or "super awesome HD4000 graphics!").

 

[SeekaX]

Actually most store-bought PCs have an i7 (non-K SKU) and a low-end graphics card (or "super awesome HD4000 graphics!").

660ti isn't exactly high end material either. in general, a company that sells "gaming" PCs with a CPU more expensive than the GPU is just a rip off.
usually they put in the k version so they can charge a couple euros more for the cpu and their amazing 20mhz OC.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Most of the low sale numbers are coming from people buying Smartphones or Tablets. Which both IMO are completely useless and waste of money. They then comaplin "PCs are soooooooo expensive" when yet an $800 Ishit 5(or tablet with internet) is bought in the mass (don't forget adding a monthly fee on top of that) they could easily save money and get a laptop that will far outperform a phone/tablet. Or if they want a PC then even better for them.

People just don't understand. They think if their phone turns on(actually it "wakes up" from sleep) faster than a PC than it's automatically faster. Also many people still have slow internet but many phones have 4G which makes them seem faster but in reality they are not hardware wise.

I only wish people knew technology and wouldn't be so arrogant about it. Just hurts the industry as well all know is slowly losing money.