• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

Recent content by bombatomba

  1. bombatomba

    NVIDIA Announces New CMP Series Specifically Designed for Cryptocurrency Mining; Caps Mining Performance on RTX 3060

    Have to give this one an "Lol." This "announcement" was nothing more than a PR dog and pony show. People like to blame "scalpers" for the price hikes, but any savvy person reading this article can plainly see they are nothing more than puppets, with both crypto miners and scalpers being...
  2. bombatomba

    Blizzard Entertainment to Resurrect Diablo II in 2021 for PC and Consoles

    I wonder what the Switch Tax will be on Diablo II. $40 USD?
  3. bombatomba

    How are you all coping with increasing PC hardware and tech prices around the world?

    I simply wait and see. A lot of news aggregators are now saying that the shortage will end in third-quarter of this year (whether or not that is true is up in the air) but if you live in the USA there is an even greater shortage (of almost everything electronic), primarily caused by the most...
  4. bombatomba

    Linux (Debian sucks)

    I've somehow managed to avoid Debian over the years, but thought to give it a try earlier last year, and in a way I see what you mean. In a strange way, modern Debian is a look into how mainline Linux distributions were packaged ten years ago. That being said, going with an Ubuntu-like or some...
  5. bombatomba

    Remembering The Mighty Core 2 Duo / Quad (post your best overclock)

    Ah, I had my old Q6600 (packed in an HP xw4600) OC'd up to 3 GHz... Yeah, I know very lame, but back then (2011) I didn't have the time or money for anything but a tiny piece of electricians tape (applied with a steady hand). But good times, such nostalgia. I went from almost ten years of...
  6. bombatomba

    How much over MSRP are you willing to spend on your graphics card?

    Zero over MSRP, though I do have a fully functioning (though a little old) 980. Like many of you I tend to keep backups, which in order of relative power are: GTX 970>>GTX 760>>GTX 660>>GTX 460 OC>>HD 7770>>N250GTS>>Nothing (I game on a workstation PC, so no Intel). I don't know what I would...
Top