Avram Piltch

Avram Piltch

Avram's been in love with PCs since he played original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple II+.  Before joining Tom's Hardware, for 10 years, he served as Online Editorial Director for sister sites Tom's Guide and Laptop Mag, where he programmed the CMS and many of the benchmarks. When he's not editing, writing or stumbling around trade show halls, you'll find him building Arduino robots with his son and watching every single superhero show on the CW.

Articles by: Avram Piltch

Using ChatGPT in Minecraft to Talk to Mobs

ChatGPT Comes to Minecraft AI Mobs, Here's How to Talk to Them

By Avram Piltch published

Have a fascinating chat with an Enderman, Creeper or even a sheep.

BabyAGI and a Robot

How to Install and Use the BabyAGI Autonomous AI Agent

By Avram Piltch published

BabyAGI takes a single objective and uses it to create its own set of tasks and prompts.

RTX 4070

Gamer Pairs RTX 4070 with Pentium. DLSS 3 Makes it Playable

By Avram Piltch published

Frame generation takes a load off the CPU.

Live11

Live11, Windows 11 Live Disk That Runs in RAM, Available for Download

By Avram Piltch published

Run Windows 11 off of a DVD or USB drive, without installing it.

Pico Cluster

Developer Builds Cluster with 9 Raspberry Pi Pico Boards

By Avram Piltch published

Distributed computing project uses RP2040-powered microcontrollers.

End task option in Windows 11 Canary 25336

Windows 11 to Let You Force Quit Apps From the Taskbar

By Avram Piltch published

Right clicking the icon and selecting End Task will soon kill misbehaving apps.

Raspberry Pi Editor

Raspberry Pi Launches Online Code Editor to Help Kids Learn

By Avram Piltch published

New editor is integrated with Python lessons, but will add support for other languages in the future.

TH Innovation Awards 2023

Tom's Hardware's Innovation Awards 2023 to Bow April 26th

By Avram Piltch published

There's still time to enter and suggest your favorite products.

Newegg AI PC Builder

Newegg's ChatGPT-Powered PC Builder Offers Mediocre Suggestions

By Avram Piltch published

Newegg has a ChatGPT-powered PC builder, but the answers Newegg's bot gives aren't that great right now.

Windows Tabloid Headlines

Get Off My Desktop! Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid News

By Avram Piltch published

Microsoft is treating the Windows search and widgets boxes like a supermarket checkout line.

Arduino Uno R4

Arduino Uno R4 Due in May With 32-Bit CPU, 16x the RAM and USB-C

By Avram Piltch published

One of the world's most popular microcontroller boards is getting a huge upgrade.

Bard plagiarizes Tom's Hardware and admits it

Google Bard Plagiarized Our Article, Then Apologized When Caught

By Avram Piltch last updated

When I asked Google's bot to compare two recent CPUs, it took data directly from a Tom's Hardware article without attribution.

Agents Find the Hidden SSDs

Chinese Customs Busts Man Smuggling 84 SSDs in a Scooter

By Avram Piltch published

Customs agents in China report they have caught a man attempting to hide drives inside of an electric scooter.

Disable VBS

How to Disable VBS and Speed Up Windows 11 or 10

By Avram Piltch published

Virtualization-based security can help protect from malware, but, if you have it on, you'll lose quite a bit of performance.

FigPi

Pi-Powered Microcontroller is a Lego Astronaut with an RGB Suit

By Avram Piltch published

FigPi runs on an RP2040 chip and has multiple Stemma connectors.

RP2040s on a TV

Gaming Console on a Stick to Feature Dual Raspberry Pi Chips

By Avram Piltch published

The Pimoroni DV Stick will plug into an HDMI port, sport dual RP2040 chips. It's due in a few weeks.

New Micro Center Store in Indianapolis

Micro Center Adding Three New Stores: Indianapolis Opens in June

By Avram Piltch published

In a world where many tech businesses are contracting, Micro Center is expanding.

Cocoa Press

Chocolate 3D Printer, Cocoa Press, to Ship this Fall for $1,499. Pre-Orders Start in April.

By Avram Piltch last updated

Instead of outputting in plastic, this printer builds models that you can eat. Pre-orders will start in April.

SSD Prices Falling

SSD Prices Have Fallen 15 to 30 Percent Since January

By Avram Piltch published

Declining NAND Flash memory prices are leading to great savings on SSDs. These are the cheapest right now.

Latest Windows Build

Windows 11 Update Brings New Search Box, But AI Integration is Hype

By Avram Piltch published

Build 22621.1344 has a slew of new features, some of which are more useful than others.

Newegg Ryzen 9 7950X3D Listing

Hidden Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D Listings Surface on Newegg

By Avram Piltch published

Vendors are gearing up for Tuesday's big AMD CPU launch.

Tiny11 Requires Less than 2GB of RAM to Run

Make a Windows 11 Image That Runs on 2GB of RAM With Tiny11 Builder

By Avram Piltch published

Free tool lets outputs a Windows 11 installer (ISO) that requires just 2GB of RAM.

Windows 11 New Search Box

Latest Windows 11 Preview Build Adds Search Box to Taskbar

By Avram Piltch published

Microsoft has been testing this feature this September, but now it's in the release preview build which means it will come to the release build soon.

AMD Ryzen 7000

Beta BIOS Lets You Prioritize CCDs on AMD's 7000X3D CPUs

By Avram Piltch published

With settings tweaks in a new X670 BIOS, you can pick which CCD gets triggered.

GPUs

Graphics Card Shipments in China Down 42% Y-o-Y, Up From December

By Avram Piltch published

Shipments of third-party cards fell year over year but are trending up from the prior month.

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