Articles by Hassam Nasir, Contributing Writer

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.

Articles by: Hassam Nasir

NVIDIA AI for Media Helps Newsrooms Detect Synthetic Video

Nvidia's new Synthetic Video Detector can identify fake AI videos with up to 92% accuracy — microservice based on cutting-edge research looks to combat misinformation in broadcasts with just 22ms processing time

By Hassam Nasir Published 21 July 26

That's for uncompressed video, however. Compression drops accuracy down to 82%.

AMD's next-gen 10-core 'Medusa Point' APU shows up on Geekbench again, with its best score yet — leaked SKU outpaces every other x86 mobile chip in the single-core test

By Hassam Nasir Published 19 July 26

Medusa Point has made its point.

Powering a Desktop PC on 400 AA Alkaline Batteries

Crazed enthusiast runs PC on 192 AA batteries, successfully boots into Hannah Montana Linux — System is stable during stress testing and even plays FreeDoom

By Hassam Nasir Published 19 July 26

A creator by the name of "Uwoslab" just jerry-rigged three battery banks together, each made up of 64 AA Alkaline cells, to form a giant 192-cell array that's enough to power an AM4 system.

AMD’s new Ryzen 7 7700X3D plummets to $279 days after launch — the X3D chip rules the mid-range at its discounted price

By Hassam Nasir Published 18 July 26

The Ryzen 7 7700X3D has suddenly become a solid value thanks to a $50 promo code, knocking its price down from $329 to just $279 on Newegg.

ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS WIFI II AM4 ATX Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition 8-Core 3.4 GHz CPU, Team T-Force Delta RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 Desktop Memory on sale at Newegg

Grab AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary CPU with motherboard and 16GB RAM for just $529 — save over $100 on this epic AMD gaming bundle

By Hassam Nasir Published 18 July 26

Deals High-performance gaming without breaking the bank.

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is exclusive to Newegg in North America — $329 CPU won't be available at other vendors until at least Q4

By Hassam Nasir Published 16 July 26

Not exactly the best value.

OpenAI's first hardware device is an RGB macropod — 'Codex Micro' features 13 low-profile keys and a joystick for controlling AI coding agents

By Hassam Nasir Published 16 July 26

It's built by boutique keyboard vendor Work Louder.

CXMT's DDR5 RAM isn't as performant or as consistent as SK hynix dies, early testing shows — reveals resistance to voltage scaling and inferior manual overclocking capabilities

By Hassam Nasir Published 15 July 26

You can't tighten the timings either, apparently.

Palit officially announces RTX 3060 return with 'new' Infinity 2 OC launch — 2021 GPU with 12GB of VRAM is an AI crisis stopgap

By Hassam Nasir Published 15 July 26

But should you buy one?

PS5 emulation ramps up in response to Sony killing physical games — PS5 titles now booting across different emulators with rapid community development for both 2D and 3D games

By Hassam Nasir Published 15 July 26

Milestone after milestone.

Enthusiast reverse-engineers Steam Controller 2 puck, creates DIY 'OpenPuck' that works without Steam Input — custom firmware can emulate Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox controllers

By Hassam Nasir Published 14 July 26

Turn your Steam Controller into something much more powerful.

Lenovo's Legion 7a gaming laptop now comes with an RTX 5070 12GB GPU option — but it costs $3,375 paired with a Ryzen AI 9 CPU, SKU was previously limited to RTX 5060

By Hassam Nasir Published 12 July 26

RTX 5070 mobile GPUs have previously been constrained by 8GB of VRAM.

Grab a blazing-fast dual-interface M.2 SSD enclosure for just $59 on Amazon — Asus' tool-less ROG Strix Aiolos is 14% off right now, featuring transfer speeds up to 20 Gbps

By Hassam Nasir Published 12 July 26

Deals And, of course, some RGB.

A thermal camera view of the Nintendo Switch 2 in docked mode with a hotspot temperature of 116 °F

Hotspot temperature sensor on Nvidia's Blackwell gaming GPUs is still accessible if you have access to Nvidia's internal MODS tool — Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti caught throttling at 107°C over poor TIM application

By Hassam Nasir Published 11 July 26

Changing the application dropped the temperature to 100 degrees Celsius.

Intel's midrange Core Ultra 5 245K is down to its lowest price ever at just $179 on Amazon — save up to 42% on a solid gaming CPU with 14 cores and PCIe 5.0 support

By Hassam Nasir Published 10 July 26

Deals Better value than pretty much anything else.

Steam sales reportedly topped $11 billion during H1 2026 due to shifting trends — staggering growth driven by influx of Chinese players and booming legacy catalogues

By Hassam Nasir Published 10 July 26

Valve is raking in billions.

An RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor

Ingenious father fixes dead RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor from an old radio — Saves worried son $120 in repair costs, GPU 'works better than before' now

By Hassam Nasir Published 9 July 26

A Russian family has just saved the house $120 in GPU repairs after the father fixed it with a salvaged capacitor from an old radio.

AMD's upcoming Zen 6 Medusa Point 10-core APU pops up on Geekbench — chip is faster than Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & even Ryzen AI Max+ 395

By Hassam Nasir Published 9 July 26

Medusa Point looks to be promising.

A representation of Nvidia DLSS upscaling

Modding tool 'DLSS Swapper' might infect your PC with malware if you download the wrong files — App creator warns against using random, user-submitted DLLs

By Hassam Nasir Published 8 July 26

The creator of DLSS Swapper is warning against using random DLLs that claim to fix issues pertaining to DLSS, FSR, or XeSS, even if said file is available on the app's GitHub repo.

AVX-512 support is reportedly returning with Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs — Latest Linux kernel patches reveal P-cores and E-cores will gain native 512-bit execution

By Hassam Nasir Published 7 July 26

Solving a major hurdle for modern Intel CPUs.

The LG UltraGear evo 39-inch GX9 (39GX950B) gaming monitor

Companies are now using automatic Windows installers to display Adware through the Microsoft Store when you install new hardware — customer immediately gets McAfee ads on their PC after connecting new LG monitor; here's how to block the new ads

By Hassam Nasir Published 7 July 26

LG monitors apparently auto-install an app on your PC when you first connect them, all thanks to the Microsoft Store.

China-made CXMT memory now supports faster speeds on MSI's AMD motherboards — new BIOS adds DDR5-8200 validation on dual-DIMM, DDR5-7200 on quad-DIMM models

By Hassam Nasir Published 6 July 26

Chinese RAM proves itself once again.

You can now use your Sony headphones as a free real-time head tracker for race and flight simulators on PC, several hundred games already supported — enthusiast creates open-source app that translates live sensor data into in-game camera controls

By Hassam Nasir Published 6 July 26

A new level of immersion for free.

Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group

By Hassam Nasir Last updated 5 July 26

DOJ claims the group stole over $100 million across various attacks.

Reviewer tests 'RTX 4080M' desktop graphics card powered by salvaged laptop silicon — performs worse than slightly more expensive RX 9070 GRE but draws only 100W in games

By Hassam Nasir Published 5 July 26

Characteristics and roughly $400 price tag could make it an option for ITX builds.

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