When searching for "top systems" based on hardware, why are the results so useless?  Like, when I search for GTX 1080 stuff, the results are all over-run with GTX 1080 Ti results.
 
I know that it can be fixed, but will it be fixed?  It is an ongoing issue which has annoyed me for a long time.  This makes the search function basically useless.
 
The search filter developers know that there is a difference in hardware (I mean, there were distinct selection options made available for a reason).  If you filter it out so that it is supposed to show only GTX 1080 results, if you click on any of the results and view each mods rig page, the mods rigs system knows that its a GTX 1080 Ti because it specifically lists it as such.  So it's not like there is a failure to realize that there is a difference in hardware at any point in the process.
 
The problem is that the mods rigs website developers made it so that the search purposely doesn't see a difference between GTX 1080 Ti and GTX 1080 Ti Kingpin, so that product segmentation doesn't have too much of an affect on the search results, but forgot to consider that a GTX 1080 Ti will then fit within the same search criteria as a GTX 1080.  Catch my drift?  The system is searching for a string value which is contained within a list of strings, and since "GTX 1080" is a string within the string "GTX 1080 Ti", the results you see are all of the top systems of string matches, and therefore all the results listed are all GTX 1080 Ti's since the GTX 1080 Ti's are significantly "on top" of the GTX 1080's.
 
So, any chance that the website developers can change the query to "... WHERE `Product` = ?" instead of "... WHERE `Product` LIKE '%?%'" or "... WHERE `Product` CONTAINS '?'".  Yes, I know that will break it and would cause a GTX 1080 TI Kingpin to no longer appear in the list of GTX 1080 TI's.  So, if you must (horror of horrors!!), do multiple broader searches (separately or as JOINs) and give only results which match the search criteria AND DON'T match any of the other search criteria.  Performance would suffer.
 
I think that there is no good solution to this problem.  Design decisions didn't take this into account prior to implementation; and now that you have thousands of systems where users already chose valid (at the time) model selections, it would be work on EVGA's part to fix it.  So, ultimately, hopefully some day in the future when your developers think it through for Mods Rigs v3.0 or v4.0 or whatever, you can have the foresight to remind them to add a field called something like Model which is strictly architecture models (which the search function uses), and then a separate field called Product where users can add all of that flashy irrelevant Kingpin and Classified and Akimbo and KO and SSC and ULTRA and so-forth product segmentation fluff which ultimately is what caused this problem.
 
That would be brilliant.  Thanks! 

It is a paragraph. One main paragraph.

Should I try again?

In order for "GTX 1080 Ti Kingpin" to show up in the results for "GTX 1080 Ti", EVGA's web developers needed to make the sql query use the LIKE '%?%' or CONTAINS '?' operators, or something similar. The problem is, that then the 'GTX 1080' is LIKE or CONTAINED inside the string of 'GTX 1080 Ti', and the string 'GTX 1080 Ti Kingpin', and all longer strings of any similar text.

It makes searching for a shorter name or lower-tier product always swamped with results of high-tier products instead. It makes the search results completely useless for anyone except the most elite. And the most elite are usually already represented on the list of highest performing systems higher up on the webpage, so it just creates a useless inaccurate list of redundancy.

Is that simple enough?

Same thing for motherboard filter - selecting X299 only shows EVGA X299 board builds.

Bad syntax, probably they are using something like:
SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE gpu_name LIKE '%1080%'
This query will return results with 1080's and 1080 Ti's.

Can you check now?

looks good