NCIX.com idea. [Community Powered Compatibility Database]

[Minecraftchest1]

I herd Linus mention in the random PC stream that he did not plan on creating a parts compatibility site because he couldn't think of anything he could add to the idea. I also herd in WAN show that he wanted to buy NCIX.com, but didn't know what he would so with it.

 

The idea that came to my mind recently was that the LMG team could build a wiki style compability site, allowing users to submit new builda, tagging them as functional, compromised, or non functional (or similar) with details of issues that they had, anything important to take note of, performance metrics, etc. Other users would then be able to add more info, similar to how wikipedia works.

 

While I havent looked at sites like PC Part Picker, I do think having a community built db could provide information that similar sites do not offer.

 

While I am sure there are people at either LMG or Floatplane who can put something like this together from scratch fairly easily, I imagine using something like semantic-mediawiki would work just as well, and would prevent a lot of reinventing of the wheel

[tikker]

1 hour ago, Minecraftchest1 said:

While I havent looked at sites like PC Part Picker, I do think having a community built db could provide information that similar sites do not offer.

I think PCPP does give you indications of compatibility already. What do you think a community-built version would offer more?

[Needfuldoer]

That just sounds like reinventing PC Part Picker.

[KeyringHardhat]

I think where this could provide benefit is with real world experience and expertise. 
 

Like others have said, PC Part Picker does a pretty decent job at telling you if your ideas are possible in reality. But what it lacks in my opinion is real world compatibility in terms of physical objects like the GPU and case working together. It offers something like this, but isn’t always accurate. 
 

having a thriving active community actually provide a human seal of approval to certain combinations could really be helpful to some folk who may be trying to fit these ever bigger components into certain combinations of cases. 
 

Also a good repository of water cooling solutions would be incredibly helpful to people at a glance if they want to build a tight fitting rig. 

[Neroon]

Let's face it, buying NCIX.com would be stupid. The only reason to do it, is for him to get the satisfaction of owning the site from a company that he outlived with LMG etc. Basically a fuck you and all that.

 

Using it would be stupid, not only is the address meaningless to people outside of Canada/NA, and the ones who do know it, think of a very other company. When they search for it, they get a ton of other results as well.

There is no reason to dilute a strong brand, with weak shit like that.