The Steam Hardware Survey isn’t just for evil marketing purposes, it also lets Valve know what machines they need to produce their games for.
They decided to let fans get a peak at what hardware they’re packing in the office, and the new rig setups the devs are ”currently transitioning to”. Move aside Quad-Core, here comes I7.
”The survey helps us make better engineering and gameplay decisions, because it makes sure we’re targeting machines our customers actually use, rather than measuring only against the hardware we’ve got in the office,” posted Valve, talking about the Steam Hardware Survey.
”We often get asked about the configuration of the machines we build around the office to do both game and Steam development. We also tend to turn over machines in the office pretty rapidly, at roughly every 18 months.”
Their current PC rig specs:
- EVGA 780i SLI FTW Intel Motherboard
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz Quad-Core Processor
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4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 1066MHz ram (Crucial Ballistix, Kingston ValueRam)
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1 x NVidia GTX280 1GB - OR - ATI 4870 1GB graphics card
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1 x 250GB 7200RPM SATA HD (Seagate, Western Digital)
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1 x 500GB 7200RPM SATA HD (Seagate, Western Digital)
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Antec Sonata III desktop case
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Zalman CPU Cooler
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850W Antec power supply
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1 x Dell 3008FPW-HC 30” LCD - OR - 2 x Dell 2001FP 20.1” LCD monitors
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Windows XP 32bit
Their new PC rig specs:
- EVGA X58 3X SLI Intel Motherboard
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Intel Corei7 940 2.93GHz Quad-Core Processor
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12GB PC3-10600 DDR3 1333MHz ram (Crucial Ballistix, Kingston ValueRam)
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1 x NVidia GTX285 1GB - OR - ATI 4870 1GB graphics card
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1 x 250GB 7200RPM SATA HD (Seagate, Western Digital)
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1 x 500GB 7200RPM SATA HD (Seagate, Western Digital)
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Lian Li P60-F Case
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Intel CPU Cooler
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850W Antec power supply
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1 x Dell 3008FPW-HC 30” LCD - OR - 2 x Dell 2001FP 20.1” LCD monitors
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Windows Vista 64bit
Envious, or does Valve deserve your pity with such ‘lacking’ hardware?
