The Official Wccftech Q1 2019 Hardware Polls!

Its time for our Wccf community survey! The hardware polls are community polls that will run on occasion and indicate how the community leaning towards major IHVs and their opinions on the PC hardware industry. The first part of our official polls, will start of course with the PC hardware side of things.

The polls will remain open till 28 February 2019, after which we will publish the results (naturally, you can get an idea of how things are going to turn out by viewing the real-time results). So without any further ado, let’s begin. The peoples choice award for add-in-board partners will be decided here as well.

*In places where you might own multiple devices – please choose your daily driver.

GPU Opinion Polls

You currently own a GPU from which IHV?

• NVIDIA dGPU
• AMD dGPU
• AMD APU or iGPU (including the Vega GH)
• Intel iGPU (excluding the Vega GH)

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Is your graphics card DX12 (FL 12_0 and above) capable?

• Yes
• No

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Are you using a multi GPU configuration?

• No
• Yes - AMD Crossfire
• Yes - NVIDIA SLI

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Do you have an NVIDIA RTX card?

• Yes
• No

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Are you planning on updating your graphics card?

• No - I am perfectly happy with my GPU right now
• No - Prices are too high
• Waiting for NVIDIA's RTX lineup to get price cuts
• Waiting for NVIDIA's GTX 11XX series
• Waiting for AMD Radeon VII GPU
• Waiting for AMD RX 600 series (or whatever it ends up being called)
• Yes - NVIDIA 10-series or lower
• Yes - NVIDIA RTX series
• Yes - AMD RX series
• Older generation NVIDIA or AMD card (none of the above)

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Historically, how have you bought graphics cards?

• I have always bought whichever IHV takes the performance per $ crown for my budget
• I have always bought NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards
• I have always bought AMD Radeon graphics cards
• I have always bought the fastest card regardless of price

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What is thee most you would pay for a top notch graphics card?

• $1000+
• $900-1000
• $800-900
• $700-800
• $600-700
• $500-600
• $400-500
• $300-400
• $200-300
• Up to $200

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What do you think of NVIDIA's RTX and DLSS tech?

• Its great!
• Its a gimmick.
• It would be great if it was priced properly and had more dev adoption.

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CPU Opinion Polls

You currently own a CPU from which (major) x86 vendor?

• Intel
• AMD

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Which processor family do you currently own?

• AMD Ryzen
• AMD Threadripper
• AMD Bulldozer Family 15H
• AMD - Older
• Intel Coffee Lake
• Intel Skylake
• Intel Skylake - X
• Intel Haswell/Broadwell
• Intel - Older

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Are you planning on upgrading this year?

• No - perfectly happy with my CPU/mobo combo.
• Waiting for 3rd Gen Ryzen/Threadripper
• Waiting for Intel Sunnny Cove
• Yes - Intel Skylake/Coffee Lake
• Yes - AMD Ryzen
• Yes - AMD Threadripper
• Yes - Intel Core-X Series

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Which core count for AMD Ryzen/TR processors are you most interested in?

• 4 Cores
• 8 Cores
• 12 Cores
• 16 Cores
• 24 Cores
• 32 Cores

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Which core count for Intel processors are you most interested in?

• 4 Cores
• 6 Cores
• 8 Cores
• 10 Cores
• 12 Cores
• 14 Cores
• 16 Cores
• 18 Cores
• 24 Cores
• 28 Cores

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What is the most you would pay for a good CPU?

• $1500+
• $1000-1500
• $900-1000
• $800-900
• $700-800
• $600-700
• $500-600
• $400-500
• $300-400
• $200-300
• Up to $200

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How much are you willing to spend on a great motherboard?

• $70-$120
• $120-170
• $170-200
• $200-300
• $300-400
• $400-500
• $500-600
• $600+

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Vendor Opinion Polls

Which AIB vendor do you trust the most?

• ASUS
• Sapphire
• EVGA
• MSI
• Gigabyte/Aorus
• XFX
• Other
• Zotac
• Palit
• Powercolor
• Galax
• HIS
• Club3D
• PNY
• Sparkle
• Colorful

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Have you ever bought reference cards?

• Nah, only custom variants
• Yes - from AMD.
• Yes - from NVIDIA.

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Going forward do you...

• Wait for custom variants from the AIBs to be released?
• Buy AMD reference cards
• Buy NVIDIA founder editions

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If you had to choose one reasno why you prefer custom variants:

• They have better cooling solutions
• They have a higher build quality
• The have beefier power supply circuitry
• They are prettier
• Other reason

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VR Opinion Polls

Do you have a VR capable system?

• Yes
• No

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Do you currently own a PC VR HMD?

• Yes - Occulus Rift (Any)
• Yes - HTC Vive (Any)
• Yes - Other (Eg: Pimax)
• No

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Are you planning on getting a PC VR HMD this year?

• No - VR is dead
• Waiting for better VR HMDs
• Waiting for cheaper VR HMDs
• Other
• Yes - HTC Vive (Any)
• Yes - Occulus Rift (Any)
• Yes - Other (eg: Pimax)

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How much would you be willing to pay for an excellent VR HMD System?

• Up to $200
• $200-300
• $300-400
• $400-500
• $500-600
• $600-700
• $700-800
• $800-900
• $900-1000
• $1000+

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Miscellaneous

How much RAM does your system have?

• Other, odd configuration
• 4 GB
• 8 GB
• 16 GB
• 32 GB
• 64 GB
• More than 64 GB

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What is the minimum acceptable resolution and FPS standard of gaming for you? In other words what do you play at right now?

• 1080p 30
• 1080p 60
• 1080p 120+
• 1440p 30
• 1440p 60
• 1440p 120+
• 4k 30
• 4k 60
• 4k 120+
• Other

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Do you own a:

• FreeSync Display
• G-Sync Display
• Neither (vanilla)

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Thanks for participating in the Wccftech community survey!

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