How Big Are The PCs Valve Program On?

Joebob · 23 Feb 2009 at 14:36

Kotaku said:
Over the weekend, Valve released an unexpectedly fascinating piece of information: the specs of the machines sitting on desks across Valve HQ, which are used for development of both games and the Steam platform.
According to a news post over on Steam, Valve change the spcs of their development units every 18 months or so. See how close you are to their current rigs:

* EVGA 780i SLI *** Intel Motherboard
* Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz Quad-Core Processor
* 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 1066MHz ram
(Crucial Ballistix, Kingston ValueRam)
* 1 x NVidia GTX280 1GB - OR - ATI 4870 1GB graphics card
* 1 x 250GB 7200RPM SATA HD
(Seagate, Western Digital)
* 1 x 500GB 7200RPM SATA HD
(Seagate, Western Digital)
* Antec Sonata III desktop case
* Zalman CPU Cooler
* 850W Antec power supply
* 1 x Dell 3008FPW-HC 30" LCD - OR - 2 x Dell 2001FP 20.1" LCD monitors
* Windows XP 32bit

Now see how far away you are from the new generation of machines the company is "currently transitioning to":

* EVGA X58 3X SLI Intel Motherboard
* Intel Corei7 940 2.93GHz Quad-Core Processor
* 12GB PC3-10600 DDR3 1333MHz ram
(Crucial Ballistix, Kingston ValueRam)
* 1 x NVidia GTX285 1GB - OR - ATI 4870 1GB graphics card
* 1 x 250GB 7200RPM SATA HD
* (Seagate, Western Digital) 1 x 500GB 7200RPM SATA HD
* (Seagate, Western Digital) Lian Li P60-F Case
* Intel CPU Cooler
* 850W Antec power supply
* 1 x Dell 3008FPW-HC 30" LCD - OR - 2 x Dell 2001FP 20.1" LCD monitors
* Windows Vista 64bit
That's a lot of cores and a lot of GBs.

Link

http://kotaku.com/5158462/how-big-are-the-pcs-valve-program-on

Sweet baby jeheesoos and the orphans :eek:

12GB RAM...!!!!!!!!!!

Bet they had to get these new PC's to play GTAIV

Le_Petit_Lapin · 23 Feb 2009 at 14:45

May as well have 12GB, sure RAM is dirt cheap these days.

uv · 23 Feb 2009 at 14:52

Joebob said:
How Big Are The PCs Valve Program On?

probably about 2ft by 1ft?

Duran · 23 Feb 2009 at 14:53

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
May as well have 12GB, sure RAM is dirt cheap these days.

12gb of ddr3 is bloody expensive

Pilky01 · 23 Feb 2009 at 14:54

780i's suck.

FrostedNipple · 23 Feb 2009 at 14:56

Duran said:
12gb of ddr3 is bloody expensive

they will buy in bulk and get vat taken off if america works in teh same way as the uk

Dark_Angel · 23 Feb 2009 at 14:58

The size of the PC's wasn't mentioned! I feel cheated. I only saw monitor sizes! where is tower sizes!

Le_Petit_Lapin · 23 Feb 2009 at 15:15

Duran said:
12gb of ddr3 is bloody expensive

What £140? Its not that much when compared to the rest of the PC. Be bloody handy too having 12GB if you're doing any development work.

Talrinys · 23 Feb 2009 at 15:18

Duran said:
12gb of ddr3 is bloody expensive

No it's not, almost the same as i paid for 2GB of DDR2

krooton · 23 Feb 2009 at 15:19

Dark_Angel said:
The size of the PC's wasn't mentioned! I feel cheated. I only saw monitor sizes! where is tower sizes!

16.7" (H) x 18.2" (D) x 8.1" (W)

Sonata III

Dark_Angel · 23 Feb 2009 at 16:03

krooton said:
16.7" (H) x 18.2" (D) x 8.1" (W)

Sonata III

Bah!

toon_mad · 23 Feb 2009 at 16:39

X58 chipset

dudload · 23 Feb 2009 at 16:44

bothered! they are nice rigs though....

linktoinsanity · 23 Feb 2009 at 16:45

Upgrading a Quad 2.83? Yeh of course, they're old /sarcasm.

Not bad i7 machines at all, how I envy them.

AWPC · 23 Feb 2009 at 16:45

Very wealthy private company having ripped off EU gamers for years with $-£ exchange rate parity BS & questionable practices like forcing you to buy HL2 all over again to get EP2 early etc etc. Gabe's gotta eat I suppose...

Helium_Junkie · 23 Feb 2009 at 16:49

Wonder what Glados' spec is...

Le_Petit_Lapin · 23 Feb 2009 at 16:53

AWPC said:
Very wealthy private company having ripped off EU gamers for years with $-£ exchange rate parity BS & questionable practices like forcing you to buy HL2 all over again to get EP2 early etc etc. Gabe's gotta eat I suppose...

I seem to remember being able to buy stuff in dollars on Steam up till a couple of months ago. I'd hardly call that "ripping off euro games for years".

Felt like I was ripping Valve off most of the time!

Delvis · 23 Feb 2009 at 16:57

AWPC said:
Very wealthy private company having ripped off EU gamers for years with $-£ exchange rate parity BS & questionable practices like forcing you to buy HL2 all over again to get EP2 early etc etc. Gabe's gotta eat I suppose...

You're choice if you wanted to get the game EARLY as opposed to waiting till the OFFICIAL shop release date.

You didn't have to buy from them you know

Tummy · 23 Feb 2009 at 18:09

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
I seem to remember being able to buy stuff in dollars on Steam up till a couple of months ago. I'd hardly call that "ripping off euro games for years".

Felt like I was ripping Valve off most of the time!

This ! if you worked it right ( with the exchange rates ) you could normally save yourself a bit of cash.

I always felt bad for doing this, I like Valve.

Pleased they now do the games in UK prices.

As for the Computers > they're almost ninja spec ... did we really expect anything less ?

snowdog · 23 Feb 2009 at 18:10

AWPC said:
Very wealthy private company having ripped off EU gamers for years with $-£ exchange rate parity BS & questionable practices like forcing you to buy HL2 all over again to get EP2 early etc etc. Gabe's gotta eat I suppose...

Prices were good, now they are rip off for EU users, only you pound users get good prices now. Prices were far better when I used to buy things in dollars and not in euros.