Aaron Klotz from Tom's Hardware - Journalist Profile

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1	Aaron Klotz Tom's Hardware @Tailscale, ex-@Mozilla. Not writer. Calgary, Alberta tech		Microsoft updates the Windows Game Bar to be more user friendly with PC Handhelds - 7 days ago GPU scam resells RTX 3090 as a 4090 — complete with a fake 'AD102' label on a lapped GPU - 8 days ago ASRock claims to fix 'burned out' AM5 motherboard by cleaning the socket - 9 days ago RTX 5080 is allegedly only 17% faster than RTX 5070 Ti, according to 3DMark benchmarks - about 2 months ago China-exclusive RX 7650 GRE is around 7% faster than a RTX 4060 - about 2 months ago RX 9070 XT Red Devil packaging recommends a 900W power supply — AMD's Frank Azor confirms custom cards with lower wattage requirements - about 2 months ago Anti-Lag 2 removed from Spider-Man 2 PC port due to game crashes on Radeon GPUs - about 2 months ago Nvidia confirms RTX 5070 Ti release date for February 20, starting at $749 - about 2 months ago Cable maker advises against using old 12VHPWR cables with RTX 50-series GPUs - about 2 months ago Trump tariffs reportedly spark display panel stockpiling from monitor manufacturers - about 2 months ago Custom RTX 5090 water block drops GPU temps by 30C - about 2 months ago Asus China compensates and assists owners with damaged GPUs due to PCIe Q-Release Slim mechanism — confirms revision on the way - about 2 months ago G.Skill intros 96GB DDR5-6800 CL32 and 32GB DDR5-6400 CL28 memory kits for Intel-based machines - about 2 months ago RTX 5090 gaming laptops listed overseas starting at $3,780 - about 2 months ago Nvidia counters AMD DeepSeek AI benchmarks, claims RTX 4090 is nearly 50% faster than 7900 XTX - about 2 months ago AMD preps 32-core and 64-core Threadripper 9000 CPUs — Shimada Peak resurfaces once again - 3 months ago Nvidia's RTX 5090, 5080 reportedly have the same L1 cache size per SM compared to RTX 4090, 4080 - 3 months ago China-tailored RTX 5090D has AI and cryptomining limiters — multi-GPU config is also locked - 3 months ago Nvidia reportedly prioritizing dual-die Blackwell GPUs with CoWoS-L packaging - 3 months ago Radeon RX 9070 RDNA 4 GPU purportedly performs similar to RTX 4080 Super in CoD Black Ops 6 - 3 months ago RTX 5090 Founders Edition is the only SKU that meets Nvidia SFF-Ready requirements - 3 months ago Nvidia gives away five classic GPUs signed by CEO Jensen Huang personally — the first two are the GeForce 256 and GeForce 8800 Ultra - 3 months ago G.Skill introduces CL28 DDR5-6000 for AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs — world's tightest timings for a DDR5-6000 memory kit - 3 months ago Samsung's 500Hz Odyssey G6 OLED joins stacked 2025 gaming monitor lineup - 3 months ago Gaming laptop leaks with RTX 50 GPU, 192GB RAM, and Arrow Lake-HX CPU — Clevo laptop has monster 18-inch 4K display and Thunderbolt 5 ports - 3 months ago MSI opens its first laptop manufacturing facility in India — MSI bets big on India's explosive projected demand for high-performance laptop devices - 4 months ago China's dual 16-core Hygon CPU server rack barely outperforms a quad-core Skylake Core i7-6700HQ mobile CPU in Geekbench AI - 4 months ago Linux 6.13-rc3 fixes expensive CPUID handling on Sapphire Rapids CPUs — an issue resulting in Skylake CPUs being 4X faster for CPUID-related updates - 4 months ago Nvidia revives LAN party after 13 years to celebrate RTX 50-series GPU launch — GeForce LAN 50 is a 50-hour LAN party across four different cities - 4 months ago $25 active memory cooler reduces temperatures of 'naked' RAM by up to 41% — Corsair Vengeance Airflow cooler prevents 768GB DDR5-6400 of server RAM from overheating - 4 months ago AMD increases official Ryzen 7 9800X3D pricing to 542 Euros in Europe due to exchange rate fluctuations - 4 months ago Nvidia introduces a new merged CPU and GPU AI processor — GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 Superchip has four B200 GPUs, two Grace CPUs - 4 months ago MSI introduces Latency Killer to improve DDR5 latency on AM5 motherboards — feature reportedly reduces latency by up to 8ns - 5 months ago Bitcoin skyrockets to an all-time high of over $84,000 — a euphoric surge in investments from Trump's presidential win - 5 months ago Minisforum's Surface-like 3-in-1 laptop becomes more affordable — V3 SE features an older Ryzen CPU, less RAM, and lower-specced screen than the V3 - 5 months ago Cooler Master has so many leftover Shark X cases that it's selling them at $4,300 a piece in Japan — the case is admittedly cheaper than the $7,000 pre-built PC that Cooler Master was offering - 5 months ago Many RTX 50 series laptops may stick with previous-gen CPUs for 2025 — leaker claims affordable CPU product launches are becoming increasingly difficult - 5 months ago Gigabyte X3D turbo mode test falls short of vendor claims — user-provided Forza Horizon 4 benchmark shows a 5% increase in average frame rates - 5 months ago 6G tests reach a blisteringly quick 938 Gb/s transmission rate, 5000X faster than 5G - 6 months ago Crucial MX500 SSD firmware susceptible to buffer overflow security vulnerability - 7 months ago Next-gen Intel Core Ultra 300 CPU specs reportedly leaked — Panther Lake-H could feature up to 28 cores and 12 Xe3 Celestial GPU cores - 7 months ago China's largest Core i9-14900K gaming cafe has suffered from instability issues since 2023 — the flagship store has 171 gaming PCs with Core i9-14900K chips - 7 months ago DeepCool products rebranded to Shaking Tank to dodge U.S. sanctions — seller blurs DeepCool logos from product renders - 7 months ago MSI X870, X870E motherboards have an extra 8-pin PCIe power connector for next-gen GPUs — unofficially aimed at GeForce RTX 50 series - 7 months ago Nvidia announces 20 new DLSS 3 titles at Gamescom — latest driver is game-ready for Black Myth: Wukong - 8 months ago CAMM2 benchmarks show similar performance to normal DIMMs — Kingston DDR5-7200 C38 CAMM2 with CKD compared to DDR5 DIMM - 8 months ago RTX 4070 infused with slower GDDR6 pictured — new variant features 20 Gbps VRAM with 5% less bandwidth - 8 months ago Zen 5 testing shows AMD's performance and power gains with threading — Intel ditched threading with Lunar Lake - 8 months ago Leaked internal reports allegedly reveal Intel's instability problems are not over — elevated voltages could be only one of the causes of CPU crashing - 8 months ago Arrow Lake CPU up to 18% faster than Core i9-14900K at 250W — Ryzen 9 9950X still faster - 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