{"id":70334,"date":"2014-11-06T13:54:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70334"},"modified":"2014-11-06T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:56:54","slug":"does-your-pc-beat-the-steam-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/70334-does-your-pc-beat-the-steam-average","title":{"rendered":"Does your PC beat the Steam average?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As Barry Roux would say: &#8220;I put it to you, does your PC beat the Steam average?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular PC configuration<\/h3>\n<p>This combination is what the average Steam user&#8217;s PC looks like.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" bgcolor=\"#0099FF\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Steam PC<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Operating system<\/td>\n<td>Windows 7 64 bit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>RAM<\/td>\n<td>8GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CPU<\/td>\n<td>Intel 2.3 &#8211; 2.69GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>GPU<\/td>\n<td>Intel HD Graphics 4000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>VRAM<\/td>\n<td>1GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Primary resolution<\/td>\n<td>1920&#215;1080<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Multi-monitor resolution<\/td>\n<td>3840&#215;1080<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Free hard drive space<\/td>\n<td>250GB to 499GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular graphics card brands and GPUs<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nvidia &#8211; 51.56%<\/li>\n<li>ATI &#8211; 29.32%<\/li>\n<li>Intel &#8211; 18.72%<\/li>\n<li>Other &#8211; 0.4%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most popular cards &#8211;\u00a0Excluding Intel graphics.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nvidia GeForce GTX 760<\/li>\n<li>Nvidia GeForce GTX 660<\/li>\n<li>Nvidia GeForce GTX 770<\/li>\n<li>Nvidia GeForce GTX 650<\/li>\n<li>Nvidia GeForce GT 630<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular CPU brands and speeds<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel &#8211; 74.64%<\/li>\n<li>AMD &#8211; 25.36%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most popular CPU speeds.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Intel 2.3 &#8211; 2.69GHz<\/li>\n<li>Intel 3.3 &#8211; 3.69GHz<\/li>\n<li>Intel 3 &#8211; 3.29GHz<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, does your PC beat the average? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/70168-this-weeks-epic-video-roundup-18.html\">This week\u2019s epic video roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/70150-which-uncapped-adsl-account-is-the-cheapest.html\">Which uncapped ADSL account is the cheapest?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/70166-biggest-video-game-launches.html\">Biggest video game launches<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has released the results of its Steam 2014 hardware and software survey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":63939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,85,12158],"class_list":["post-70334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-headline","tag-steam","tag-steam-hardware-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70336,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70334\/revisions\/70336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}