Steam Reveals the Hardware Choices of Gamers
As part of one its recent Steam updates, Valve asked gamers to fill out a new survey geared to find out what hardware their users are using. With close to 900,000 submissions returned, we can start to get a clear idea of the hardware choices of gamers. For instance, who do gamers like more, ATi or nVidia? It's actually a pretty close race with nVidia at 51% and ATi at 41%. However, the most used card is from the ATi 9800 series, most likely due to all the gamers who bought the card to get a free copy of Half-Life 2.
As for processors, it's even closer, with Intel at 52.5% and AMD at 47.5%. Another interesting stat would be that 86% of users have DVD drives. Looks like it's now a good time to start releasing those games on DVD!
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