Research for a pc games company - what hardware do you use?

[Jula]

Hey all,
I'm trying to find out what kind of hardware (CPU, motherboard, RAM, Hard drive, Video Card, OS etc.) American PC Players use at home as we don't have any statistics on this topic here in Germany.
It would be very friendly if you could help me with this. Just post it in this forum! Thanks a lot!

 

[Gozu]

look up my signature. most of this board's users have a link to their hardware in their signature.

 

[Entropy007]

Her you go it's in my signature

 

[Whitecloak]

see sig

 

[Jula]

 

[Alkaline5]

Does anyone remember the url to the survey results from the latest Half-Life update? That might give a clearer picture of what the average machine is.

 

[BillClo]

That would be useful if someone still had that link...as I recall, the "average system" wasn't that fast, nor a very high grade vid card.

 

[Nova101]

FWIW...I would not consider the average person here an average gamer...this is a hardware enthusiast site and thus people tend to have better computers than the average American.

I would suggest looking at what Dell sells. They sell more computers than anyone else.

 

[Maggotry]

Originally posted by: Nova101
FWIW...I would not consider the average person here an average gamer...this is a hardware enthusiast site and thus people tend to have better computers than the average American.

I would suggest looking at what Dell sells. They sell more computers than anyone else.

Lot's of truth in those words.

 

[Adrian Tung]

My sig.


atwl

 

[Lint21]

Jula: I agree with what Nova101 said about this site attracting people with above-average computers. Might get kinda skewed results from us

With that said, it might be worth your while to contact Anand or somebody else involved with running this site. I'm sure they have the ability to create reports from the database that holds all of the "rig" information from my.anandtech.

 

[WarCon]

See sig.

 

[prontospyder]

see sig

 

[murphy55d]

see my sig as well

 

[CubicZirconia]

Halflife/Speakeasy.net survery results

From the article:

average CPU speed of those surveyed is between 700-800Mhz
The most popular video card features Nvidia's GeForce2 chip




see my sig too...

 

[Zeeliv]

Shut up guys! We want games that push our hardware


All the rigs you find here are the average American gamers machine...especially mine

 

[CrazySaint]

PII-350
256MB PC100 SDRAM
Radeon LE 32MB DDR
12GB HD

Soon to be:
P4 1.8A @ whatever I can OC it to
256MB PC2700 CAS2 @ whatever I can OC it to
80GB 'cuda IV 7200RPM
Radeon LE 32MB DDR