Valve Summary Data page?

2008-01-20 02:22:39

#1

Deleted_screen: Blue Entertainment; +9|6197|127.0.0.1

I've checked the summary data page... look!

Unspecified 2 0.00 %
1 cpu 655,838 61.15 % #############################################################
2 cpus 379,305 35.37 % ###################################
3 cpus 17 0.00 %
4 cpus 37,214 3.47 % ###
8 cpus 89 0.01 %
127 cpus 3 0.00 %

There are 89 people with 8 CPUs, and 3 people with 127 CPUs.

Myself i got 2.

Is Valve, or any other game makers, registered at steam and did this surveys, can it be in someway hacked or can you buy 8 CPUs/127 CPUs somewhere in the world?

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

2008-01-20 03:12:01

#2

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6747|N. Ireland

Mac Pro.

2008-01-20 03:14:01

#3

Peter: Super Awesome Member; +494|6655|dm_maidenhead

It obviously makes up for their penis size.

2008-01-20 03:27:11

#4

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6402|'straya

Well u can definitely get 8 core processors (i beleive the Mac Pro has 8)

but 127 cpus?? u gotta be kidding.

i mean ive heard stories of 20-60 Ghz processors being developed using some new technology.

but 127 cpus..... W-T-F

2008-01-20 03:40:00

#5

_raab: Member; +28|6487|Western Aust.

Its probly for when nasa gets bored or something, even tho that would be one of their crappy computers.

2008-01-20 04:31:12

#6

Fat_Swinub: jaff; +125|6688

There are bugs. You can see that. Some people have a processor who's vendor is a funny "r". One person has a graphics card which supports x16 MSAA despite not even the 8800 series supporting that. There are 25 "Unknown"s in the microphone section which have only one person. It's just a bug with the detection.

2008-01-20 12:31:41

#7

Commie Killer: Member; +192|6640

Fat_Swinub wrote:
There are bugs. You can see that. Some people have a processor who's vendor is a funny "r". One person has a graphics card which supports x16 MSAA despite not even the 8800 series supporting that. There are 25 "Unknown"s in the microphone section which have only one person. It's just a bug with the detection.

Yeah its glichy, when I did it, it said my OS was installed December 31, 1969.

2008-01-20 12:35:48

#8

djphetal: Go Ducks.; +346|6589|Oregon

Yep. 8 is legitimate. I have a friend with 8cpus, but 127 is oftentimes the maximum value for a computerized state variable (I know this because I do a lot of music production, and everything goes from 0-127. A scale of 128 numbers... which fits into that whole common computer number sequence thingy)... So... it may sound like I'm talking out my ass, and I am, but that's just my guess. It's a glitch that read the maximum amount.

2008-01-20 12:39:25

#9

KylieTastic: Games, Girls, Guinness; +85|6706|Cambridge, UK

You can get servers with 8 processors (supplied a couple in the past)

not sure about 127 either glitch or hax - always assumed those odd extras were just sad loser hacking the survey reply stream (and Valve not checking the input well enough) (oh and I would think its 127 because thats the max value in a signed byte)

Last edited by KylieTastic (2008-01-20 12:40:25)

2008-01-21 06:10:31

#10

Deleted_screen: Blue Entertainment; +9|6197|127.0.0.1

I know there are 8 cored processors etc, i know quiet a lot of that... (not as much as you do, but i know as far as you can put how many CPUs as you want in a PC, with loads of cores in each CPU)

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