It's been a long time since I've taken part in one of Steam's hardware surveys, but here are the current results for you all to see. I'm looking at it and I see XP being used more than Vista (even with DX10 cards), Intel being used more than AMD, and Nvidia being used more than ATI (or I guess still AMD). It also looks like dual core CPU's are slowly taking over single core users.

Hardware survey results

@Kotaku

"Valve announced today that it was relaunching its hardware survey, publishing its findings for the month of November and giving the public a look at the Steam-enabled PC gaming hardware landscape.

The developer has expanded its insightful program by providing hardware adoption trends, with six months of data on CPU, GPU and DirectX usage published in handy, easy-to-read pie and line chart formats. Normally, we wouldn't be that jazzed to poke through operating system ratios, but thanks to the nicely constructed aggregation of data, we can't stop wondering things like "I wonder what the most popular multi-monitor desktop resolution is?"

With some 8 million computers surveyed over the course of 4-plus years, we'd say its a pretty solid indicator of who's doin' what out there."

Nifty, glad to see this available again...now if only they would release sales data also =P

I won't hold my breath for that one.

Didn't they release sales of their older games? Might not be Steam's numbers, but they're getting closer I guess.

I did this yesterday.

I'm kinda worried about this. Thing is, my computer can run DX9, but for a lot of valve games (which I play on Steam) I have to manually override in order to play at DX8, so that I can play without getting unreasonable amounts of lag.

Wow, the GF8800 is such a popular card.

For the vast majority of games at typical resolutions, an 8800's all you need.

Given the production numbers by multiple vendors and very competitive pricing, leading to arguably the best price/performance ratio, it's no wonder the 8800 has been so popular.

Was surprised to see such a low number of quad CPU systems, but given that next to no games take advantage of the extra two cores, maybe I shouldn't have been.

Multi GPU systems were even rarer still. Boggling considering how many people like to talk about building SLI or Crossfire PCs.

Less than 512 MB
(-0.31%) 2.91%

Other computers are as bad as mine still? Yay =p
I have like 384 megs of ram...

Well...when you have the urge to order a pizza or something similar...resist once, maybe twice, and that's enough money to buy 2 GB of RAM for yourself hehe.

Cheapest I saw for ONE gig was like 40, and it was for the wrong type too, in a store that was closing >_<