The most difficult question was clearly the question concerning the RAM speed. Only 40% of the participants answered it. To my surprise about 5% weren´t sure if they are satisfied or unsatisfied with their graphics card. And four user even didn´t know on which nVidia chip their card is based on. Well, for using the TV output actually it doesn´t matter :-). The table, which will show the TV chip of each graphics card, will still take a while. Here are the other results of the survey:

On which graphics chip are the cards of the users based?

You can see that the GeForce-2 Ultra hasn´t hit so far. On the contrary more than 10% still use a TNT-1 card. About a quarter of the users owns a GeForce MX card and are up-to-date. So there´s the question, which manufacturer is very popular resp. which manufacturer has what share of the market among the participants? Let´s see.

ASUS is one step ahead with clear margin. Behind Hercules follows with about a fifth of all sold cards. The top five is completed with ELSA, Leadtek and PROLINK (e.g. Pixelview). Even manufacturer who don´t make cards based on nVidia chipsets anymore, are found in the middle field. Ok, these were the market shares, but what´s about the satisfaction? This question will be answered in the next part with a surprising result. Part 2