Gamers Are Still Upgrading PCs, Despite Sky-High Component Prices
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Gamers seem determined to upgrade their PCs, even though graphics cards, memory, and storage are more expensive than ever. The latest Steam hardware survey shows many people are still paying a pretty penny for performance. The RTX 5070 has become by far the most popular graphics card among Steam gamers, and a near-majority now have 32GB of RAM or more.
The Steam hardware survey rarely shows huge jumps in hardware adoption. Often, cards creep up the rankings by a place or two as subtle, fraction-of-a-percent increases in market share drip-feed over time. But the RTX 5070 went from being an also-ran in August, with 3.77% of the whole Steam user base, to the most dominant card in years, with over 6.15% of all gamers running it in September.
That puts it ahead of longstanding cards on the list like the RTX 3060 and 4060, and accelerated...
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