GIGAZINE readers' PCs are most commonly 'custom-built' at 20.5%, and we conducted a thorough investigation into their CPUs, graphics cards, motherboards, memory, and storage.
GIGAZINE has published numerous review articles on PCs, CPUs, graphics cards, and other related products. Therefore, in our 2026 summer
First, we asked the question, 'Please tell us the brand of PC you are using (multiple selections allowed).' The most frequently selected option was 'custom-built' at 20.5%, followed by Apple at 17.4%, Lenovo at 13.3%, Dell at 11.6%, and HP at 11.2%.
For those who selected 'Other' in the previous question, we asked them to freely describe the brand name of the PC they use, and the results of visualizing their responses as a word cloud are shown below. Brand names such as 'TSUKUMO,' 'GMKtec,' 'Sycom,' 'dynabook,' and 'LG' were mentioned.
Next, among those who selected 'custom-built' in the PC brand question, the results of asking about the manufacturer of the CPU they use are as follows: AMD was the most common at 55.5%, followed by Intel at 43.8%, and 'other' at 0.7%.
The following are the results of a survey asking those who selected AMD as their CPU manufacturer to choose the specific CPU model they are using. Excluding 'Other,' the most frequently selected CPU was
For those who selected 'Other' in the previous question, we asked them to freely describe the product name of the AMD CPU they were using, and the results of visualizing their responses as a word cloud are shown below. Product names such as 'Ryzen 5 3600,' 'Ryzen 7 3700X,' and 'Ryzen 5 3500' were prominent.
Next, for those who selected Intel in the question asking about their CPU manufacturer, the following are the results of asking them to select the product name of the CPU they are using. Excluding 'Other,' the most frequently selected was
For those who selected 'Other' in the previous question, we asked them to freely describe the product name of the Intel CPU they were using, and the results of visualizing their responses as a word cloud are shown below. Product names such as 'Intel Core i9-9900K,' 'Intel Core i7-4770 series,' and 'Intel Xeon' were mentioned.
For those who selected 'Other' in the question about CPU manufacturers, we asked them to freely describe the manufacturer and product name of the CPU they were using, and the results of visualizing their responses as a word cloud are shown below.
Next, among those who selected 'DIY' in the question about PC brands, the results of asking about the manufacturer of the motherboard they use are as follows: ASUS was the most popular at 36.0%, followed by ASRock at 30.3% and MSI at 21.1%.
For those who selected 'Other' in the previous question, we asked them to freely describe the manufacturer of their motherboard, and the results of visualizing their responses as a word cloud are shown below. Names such as 'TUF,' 'AORUS,' 'SAPPHIRE,' 'Supermicro,' and 'NZXT' were mentioned. The responses included not only manufacturer names but also what appear to be product brand names.
Next, for those who selected 'DIY' in the PC brand question, we asked them to freely describe the product name of the motherboard they were using, and the results of visualizing their responses as a word cloud are shown below. Responses such as 'TUF GAMING B550-PLUS,' 'B550M Pro4,' 'B550,' 'B450 Steel Legend,' and 'B550M Steel Legend' were observed.
The following are the results of a survey asking people who selected 'custom-built' in the PC brand question about the manufacturer of their graphics card: NVIDIA was the most popular at 72.7%, followed by AMD at 23.3%, and Intel at 4.0%.
Furthermore, the following are the results for those who selected NVIDIA in response to the question asking about the graphics card manufacturer, and then selected the model name of the graphics card they were using. Excluding 'Other,' the most frequently selected was
Next, we asked those who chose AMD to select the model name of the graphics card they were using. Excluding 'Other,'
Next, we asked those who chose Intel to select the model name of the graphics card they were using. The most common answer was 'Other' at 58.6%, and among the options that specified a model name,
The following is a word cloud visualization of the responses from those who selected 'Other' in response to the question asking for the model name of their graphics card. In addition to integrated GPUs and onboard graphics, the following were mentioned: GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, Radeon RX 580, and others.
The results of the question 'What is the memory capacity of your PC?' are as follows: '16GB or more but less than 32GB' was the most common at 28.6%, followed by '32GB or more but less than 64GB' at 23.2%, and '8GB or more but less than 16GB' at 19.2%.
The results of the question, 'Are you using an HDD or an SSD?' are as follows: 43.9% use only SSDs, 34.4% use both SSDs and HDDs, and 13.2% use only HDDs.
Furthermore, the results of the question, 'What is the capacity of your HDD?' are as follows: '1TB or more but less than 2TB' was the most common answer at 19.7%, followed by 'less than 1TB' at 18.4%.
Next, we asked, 'What is the capacity of your SSD?' and the results are as follows: '960GB or more but less than 2000GB' was the most common answer at 24.8%, followed by '512GB or more but less than 960GB' at 13.5%, and '256GB or more but less than 480GB' at 11.0%.
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