I read with interest your recent reviews of the 8800GTs, and always like your Bang for Buck feature, it's both useful and, as far as i can tell, unique in the IT reviewing online world.
Your
line here got me thinking:
For reference, a £95 HD 3870 512MiB would have a HEXUS.bang4buck rating of 1.83 - offering, as we know, the same performance as Sapphires HD 3870 ULTIMATE but at a lower price by foregoing the more-expensive passive-cooling solution. Got all that?
How feasible would it be to have, in addition to the Bang For Buck feature, as graph where the competing cards have a normalised price / performance curve, so that we can say "for card A to be the same BFB as card B, it needs to be priced at £xx, assuming card B stays the same".
Let me explain a little more.
Let's say you are comparing 3 cards, A, B and C.
Card A ends up being the best BFB at £100, card B sells for £80 and card C for £120.
My proposed graph would have bar charts in, with card A remaining at £100 (as it is the current champion). Card B however would be at, say, £69. Card C at £102. This would mean that
at those prices each is of equivalent value, BFB. Any card then found
under those prices would be better value.
This way, when we spot bargains online we can they more confidently say that so-and-so really is a bargain, until someone else spots that card B has also reduced etc.
What do you think?
Is the idea clear enough?
I know there is a bit more maths involved, but i view it as an extension of the BFB model.