Valve Releases Hardware Survey Results

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."

Comments

Re:And which one of you...

[NanoGator]

"And which one of you actually agreed to be profiled like this?"

Well, let's go down the list of names and social security numbers they've collect... :P

Re:In between ratings..

[ebichu]

There is no standard abbreviation for byte or bit, and 'b' and 'B' are used interchangably for bit and byte to such an extent that there really isn't a consensus non-standard abbreviation for either.

'B' should be avoided in some contexts, as it normally stands for 'Bel', one of the dimensionless units of ratio and similarly 'b' is 'barn' a slightly freaky unit of area equal to 10^-28 square meters -- used for measuring the space taken up by very small farm buildings, one must assume.

Oddly, the Bel and barn aren't actually part of the SI system of measurment, but are officially 'accepted for use' in combination with it. Those zany French!