Does your PC beat the Steam average?

6 November 2014

Valve has released the results of its October 2014 Steam hardware and software survey, which gives us an idea of who is using what to play games through the online distribution platform.

As with all things gaming the need to win gets us to take part in the survey so we can see if we beat the average.

As Barry Roux would say: “I put it to you, does your PC beat the Steam average?”

Most popular PC configuration

This combination is what the average Steam user’s PC looks like.

Steam PC
Operating system Windows 7 64 bit
RAM 8GB
CPU Intel 2.3 – 2.69GHz
GPU Intel HD Graphics 4000
VRAM 1GB
Primary resolution 1920×1080
Multi-monitor resolution 3840×1080
Free hard drive space 250GB to 499GB

Most popular graphics card brands and GPUs

  • Nvidia – 51.56%
  • ATI – 29.32%
  • Intel – 18.72%
  • Other – 0.4%

Most popular cards – Excluding Intel graphics.

  1. Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
  2. Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
  3. Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
  4. Nvidia GeForce GTX 650
  5. Nvidia GeForce GT 630

Most popular CPU brands and speeds

  • Intel – 74.64%
  • AMD – 25.36%

Most popular CPU speeds.

  1. Intel 2.3 – 2.69GHz
  2. Intel 3.3 – 3.69GHz
  3. Intel 3 – 3.29GHz

So, does your PC beat the average? Let us know in the comments and forum.

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  1. Satanclaws
    10.11.2014 at 14:17

    Maximus V Gene, 3570K (4.8Ghz), GTX 770 4gb, 8GB 1600Mhz, 256gb Forct GT SSD.

    GLHF>GG>WP

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