Articles by Aaron Klotz, Contributing Writer

Aaron began building computers back when he was 8 years old in the mid-2000s, and it’s been a hobby of his ever since then. With a focus on computer hardware, he became an avid member of the Tom’s Hardware forums several years later, helping people solve issues with their PCs. He is now a freelance writer for Tom’s Hardware, writing about computer hardware news and more. When not busy playing or writing about computer hardware, he spends his free time playing video games like Star Citizen or Apex Legends.

Articles by: Aaron Klotz

Upscaling can't save the world's slowest 'modern' GPU — FSR doubles performance on GT 1030, but titles still barely playable

By Aaron Klotz published 14 July 25

Nvidia's 5-year-old GT 1030 was tested in several games, including AAA games to see if FSR upsclaing can bring frame rates into playable territory. Spoiler alert, it did not.

Core Ultra 5 245HX blasts past desktop counterpart in PassMark — mobile Arrow Lake chip is up to 40% faster than the Core i5-14500HX

By Aaron Klotz published 12 July 25

In a weird twist, Intel's Core Ultra 5 245HX is allegedly faster than the desktop Core Ultra 5 245 in PassMark, featuring better single-core and multi-core scores.

Cooler Master's beefy 360mm MasterLiquid 360L Core AIO is still only $85 in the final hours of Prime Day

By Aaron Klotz last updated 11 July 25

CoolerMaster's MasterLiquid 360L Core 360mm AIO liquid cooler is 15% off for Prime Day, coming in at just $84.99

Gigabyte B550 Eagle motherboard is at an all-time low price for the end of Prime Day at 26% off

By Aaron Klotz published 11 July 25

Deals The Gigabyte B550 Eagle is a mid-range AM4 motherboard

AMD's forgotten generation of Ryzen chips at incredible deals in the final hours of Amazon Prime Day — Ryzen 5000XT processors up to 46% off

By Aaron Klotz published 11 July 25

Deals AMD fixes the bad launch day pricing for its Ryzen 5000 refresh; now, both "XT" chips are cheaper than their "X" series counterparts.

One of the best AIOs for Intel CPUs is 26% off just before Prime Day ends — be quiet! Light Loop 360mm drops to $139

By Aaron Klotz published 11 July 25

Deals TKTK

Amazon slashes Ryzen 7 7800X3D price, now just $341 as Prime Day winds down — last-gen chip is a stellar deal with 95% of the gaming performance of the newer model

By Aaron Klotz, Paul Alcorn last updated 11 July 25

You can get a Ryzen 7 7800X3D for $341 at Amazon.

B&H Photo undercuts Prime Day Pricing, PNY RTX 5090 is the lowest priced RTX 5090 right now

By Aaron Klotz published 10 July 25

Deals B&H Photo has stolen Amazon's thunder and now features the cheapest RTX 5090 SKU on the market.

Samsung's premium Odyssey G8 QD-OLED is just $899 right now — Get 4K 240Hz performance for 31% less, $400 off

By Aaron Klotz published 9 July 25

Deals Samsung's flagship 4K 240Hz QD-OLED 27-inch gaming monitor is 31% off priced at $899.99.

Crucial's 32GB Pro DDR5 kit at all-time low pricing for Prime Day — 25% off on affordable DDR5-6400 kit that looks good, too

By Aaron Klotz published 8 July 25

Deals Crucial's White Pro DDR5 2x16GB (32GB) memory kit is at an all-time low price of just $84.99 for Prime Day (25% off).

Next-gen Intel and AMD CPUs get AIDA64 support — AMD Zen 6 and Intel Wildcat Lake referenced in latest version

By Aaron Klotz published 8 July 25

A new version of AIDA64 has dropped, featuring support for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 CPU architecture and Intel's upcoming entry-level CPU architecture codenamed Wildcat Lake.

Just in time for Prime Day, Steam's hardware survey reveals PC gamers have less free storage than ever — most users have only 100-250GB of space, barely enough for a couple of AAA titles

By Aaron Klotz published 7 July 25

Now's the perfect time to upgrade your storage!

Samsung 990 Evo Plus 4TB SSD drops to excellent all-time low $234 — DRAM-less drive gets blowout sale for early Prime Day

By Aaron Klotz published 3 July 25

You can get the Samsung 990 Evo Plus 4TB for just $234, 47% off its original MSRP.

Newegg selling $100 gift cards for $85, with a promo code — get $15 off any PC hardware purchase

By Aaron Klotz published 2 July 25

Newegg is offering a discount on its $100 online gift card, giving customers $15 off on any Newegg purchase.

Steam and Linux gaming is safe: Fedora will not drop 32-bit support after all — dev says proposal was 'not some conspiracy to break the gaming use case'

By Aaron Klotz published 30 June 25

The developers behind Fedora have withdrawn their proposal to drop 32-bit support from the OS. Fedora 44 will maintain 32-bit support, allowing Steam to keep functioning on the Linux distribution.

Nvidia's latest DLSS revision reduces VRAM usage by 20% for upscaling — optimizations reduce overhead of more powerful transformer model

By Aaron Klotz published 28 June 25

Nvidia's latest version of the DLSS SDK provides VRAM optimizations to the transformer model, reducing its memory footprint by 20%.

Even upscalers can't resuscitate a $10 GPU—13-year-old GTX 660 is so slow that FSR can't give it a boost

By Aaron Klotz published 28 June 25

Upcalling cannot save the Kepler-based GPU

New homegrown China server chips unveiled with impressive specs — Loongson's 3C6000 CPU comes armed with 64 cores, 128 threads, and performance to rival Xeon 8380

By Aaron Klotz published 26 June 25

Loongson has finally released its 64-core 3C6000 data center CPU, featuring CPU performance equivalent to 2023 Intel and AMD data center processors such as the Xeon 8380.

Nvidia explains why its desktop RTX 5050 only uses GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR7 like the laptop version — 'G6 is the best choice for desktops and the more power efficient G7 is the best choice for laptops'

By Aaron Klotz last updated 26 June 25

Nvidia has revealed why it used GDDR6 VRAM in the desktop version of its RTX 5050, despite the fact the laptop version comes with GDDR7

RTX 5060 eGPU prototype brings Blackwell to handheld PCs — unit crams desktop-class power into the palm of a hand

By Aaron Klotz published 26 June 25

The compact prototype is similar in size to RX 7600M XT-powered eGPU docks.

Switch 2 has a 120 Hz screen with response times that are too slow for 60 Hz gaming, tester claims

By Aaron Klotz published 25 June 25

Nintendo's latest Switch 2 console allegedly has a response time that is inadequate even for 60 FPS gaming.

AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs

AMD researchers reduce graphics card VRAM capacity of 3D-rendered trees from 38GB to just 52 KB with work graphs and mesh nodes — shifting CPU work to the GPU yields tremendous results

By Aaron Klotz published 25 June 25

AMD researchers have developed a new 3D tree rendering technology that can reduce video memory demands

Nvidia launches $249 RTX 5050, putting Blackwell within reach of more gamers — entry-level 50-series arrives in late July

By Aaron Klotz published 24 June 25

Nvidia finally unveils the RTX 5050, sporting 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR6, and a 130W TGP. The new GPU represents Nvidia's first new xx50-class desktop card since the RTX 3050

Microsoft tests Xbox app with Battle.net integration — updated app brings third-party game library aggregation

By Aaron Klotz published 23 June 25

Microsoft has announced a new aggregated gaming library for Xbox app on PC that will see installed games from third party storefronts show up in the Xbox app.

Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations boosts compute performance — 20% uplift from setting change that even Intel employs, despite unknown security risk

By Aaron Klotz published 23 June 25

Disabling security mitigations for Intel GPUs in Intel's GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can allegedly boost performance by up to 20%.

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