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Valve Releases Hardware Survey Results

Posted by Zonk on from the i-know-what-you've-been-playing dept.

Chris_Yates writes "A hardware survey containing over one million entries has been made public by Valve, the creators of Half-Life 2. Some interesting facts include: 65.89% now have SP2 compared to 17.04% for SP1, AMD and Intel almost split 50/50 with nVidia edging out ATI 50.72% to 41.03%. The Radeon 9800 and 9600 take the top two spots with 20% combined."

7 of 77 comments (clear)

  1. Re:confusing presentation by Tyir · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stop moving two minutes forward in time and stealing my posts!!

  2. Re:confusing presentation by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 3, Funny

    REAL statistics are expensive.

    This garbage statistic is useless and only serves as a bragging tool for those who wish to "purchase" profiles from a gamer-type computer user.

    The real statistics are 20K$ and up. With optional forced updates that scour the registry for names, addresses, and unique identifiers and such to hard-link all that information.

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  3. Windows SP2 stats: The beast is everywhere... by geoffybiggins · · Score: 4, Funny

    XP SP 2 (Build 2600) 666,890 65.89 %

  4. Re:confusing presentation by kafka47 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If he were moving forward in time, wouldn't he be posting after you?

    Plus which, his post is shown to be four minutes before yours. My temporal mechanics is a bit rusty, but that makes him posting a full six minutes ahead of you (had he not used his transmorgifier to shorten the gap).

    Takes quite the effort to get ahead of, er behind, you.

  5. nice... by BRTB · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just want to salute whoever the joker is that convinced the survey app that he had an "INTERWEBntel" processor.

    1. Re:nice... by cgenman · · Score: 2, Funny

      Personally, I want to salute the thousand people trying to run Half Life 2 under an intel i810 on-board graphics card. I remember struggling to get that chipset to work with the first Half Life.

      Or that one person trying to get things running on a less than 1 GB HDD.

      Eternal optimism, I salute you!

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      The ______ Agenda
  6. Learn a new thing everday! by doofer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Language:
    Korean (Adult) 22,241 2.19 %
    Korean (Teen) 3,140 0.31 %

    Never knew Korean language was actually specified as different for Adults and teenagers!

    Bet english and a lot of other languages _could_ do the same.