Zak Killian

Zak Killian is a freelance contributor to Tom's Hardware who has also written for HotHardware and Tech Report. Ever since typing in games from magazines in ATARI BASIC on his family's Atari 800XL as a youth, Zak has been deeply fascinated with the capabilities of computers. His passion for gaming as a kid led to more technical engagement with PCs as a teenager, when he first built his own system: an AMD K6. Not long after, he founded his own PC repair shop in the year 2000. Now, decades later, he's still building and benchmarking new boxes, still gaming in every free hour, and still arguing on the internet with almost any opinion anyone has. Something of a modern-day Renaissance man, he may not be an expert on anything, but he knows just a little about nearly everything.