If you've got a sec, please help.

[Rok125]

Hello guys & gals,

I'm helping create a smart comparison shopping engine for pc gaming hardware. This way you, the gamer, end up with the best bang-for-your-buck hardware. We are dead set on making this about you. So I invite you to answer a few questions. It only takes two or three minutes of your time tops. There are only two rules.

1. You must be a pc gamer! (which let's face it if you're here 99.999% chance you are)
2. You must be the type to do some research on your computer hardware before you purchase.

The answers to these questions are going to shape this site. We have some uber cool features coming soon. If you'd like to know more send me a PM.

Please click below to answer a few questions.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9PGCKTT

I checked for the rules and the regs as to whether this was ok to post here and I didn't find anything. If this is a cardinal sin have mercy on me. Contact me to delete it or Moderators work your magic. Thanks everyone!

 

[Soundmanred]

Moderators work your magic, delete it.

 

[AlexAL]

What's my cut?

 

[festa_freak]

While we're at it, let's turn this into a AMD/Nvidia flame war. AMD. Awww, no. I shouldn't do that. I won't do your survey. People call me on the phone and I say no so this is no different.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Do I get a free iPad?

 

[reallyscrued]

This way you, the gamer, end up with the best bang-for-your-buck hardware. We are dead set on making this about you.

ZOMG! It's about me?? That is so thoughtful.

And here I thought you were doing this to make profits for yourself. We need more people like you.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

pc part picker?

 

[Smoblikat]

Did it, looks interesting.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

I filled this in but it's a pretty badly designed survey if I'm honest, there's a number of problems with it.

I also think the general idea of building a website around price to performance ratios is too subjective, the problem is each person weights price and performance differently, so while you can gauge rough objective estimates of what components have the best performance per dollar it can't possibly take into account the relative weighting applied by each shopper to these metrics.

For example the best price to performance parts tend to exist in the mid range for CPUs and GPUs, however Person "A" might want to aim for a high end solution and is willing to sacrifice some price trade off to maintain in the high end segment, where as Person "B" might want only basic GPU processing power so the best bang for buck represents this person spending more money just to get a better "deal" for a part they may not need.

I think this is a really awful thing to focus on for a shopping website, you'd also have to consider that many tech folks find significantly more bang for buck with overclocking components and no store can really guarantee after market modding is going to be safe or reliable so factoring that in to the equation becomes nearly impossible, the best bang for the buck in CPUs for example is to shoot for K variants from intel and overclock the crap out of them, if you recommend that in any kind of official capacity on a site selling parts or even aggregating sales/price info you're likely to get in to trouble.