Hassam is a lifelong PC gamer and tech enthusiast with over five years of experience in PC hardware journalism. His passion began in childhood when he rescued a discarded Pentium 4 processor, straightening its pins with a kitchen knife to revive a Dell Dimension 2400 at the age of seven. Since then, he has followed the advancements in technology, witnessing the evolution of hardware from the era of AMD's Opteron architecture to Intel's Smithfield (Pentium D), and the rise of Voodoo GPUs alongside Nvidia's FX GPUs taking the market by storm to the latest innovations today. As a seasoned writer, Hassam loves to get into the nitty-gritty details of hardware, providing insights on everything from CPUs, Motherboards and RAM to GPUs. When he’s not writing, you’ll find him building custom water-cooled PCs for himself and his friends, attending drag racing events, or collecting niche fragrances.