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Comment by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7

3 days ago

Are there aggregations of some accessible telemetry from a widely used application that reveal what is most common today?

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

Gamers only, but that's not a bad selection imho

  • The Steam Hardware Survey is an incredibly valuable resource, what with it being freely-available, constantly updated, and sourced from a population that makes its sampling biases generally easy to identify and understand. It and the Backblaze hard drive data are almost unique in how they provide real, large-scale data about computer hardware.

    • It's interesting how you can practically tell how many people have a specific processor nowadays (12 core = 5900,7900,9900x, 14 core = i5 14600k, 245, 20 core = i7 etc)

      Pretty cool

  • Thanks, 35.15% on 32GB as well, getting there

    • I believe most consumer CPUs only have 2 memory channels w/ 1 memory controller so unless they're using 64GB UDIMMs (which I believe do exist as of this year) then gamers seem limited to 64GB total ram (2x32GB) unless they want to drop their ram frequency.

      For example a 9950x3d officially supports 2 sticks at DDR5-5600 but 4 sticks at only DDR5-3600. [1]

      I had a friend run into this issue on AM5 when he was trying to use 4x32GB DDR5 on his gaming PC.

      [1] https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/90...

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