Avram Piltch

New York, United States

Editor-in-Chief at Tom's Hardware

What do you do with a degree in English? Play with computers and then write about it, of course!

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Grab one of these 4TB SSDs for 5 cents per gigabyte - 8TB models start as low as 7 cents per GB

1 week ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)It's 2025 so what are you doing with just a 1TB or 2TB boot drive in your system? With AAA title games, photos and videos, or locally-run LLMs, that kind of capacity just doesn't cut it. Fortunately, 4TB SSDs are very affordable right now, with prices of just $0.05 per GB or $0.06 per GB for a Samsung drive. Below, we list all the current 4TB PCIe 4 and PCIe 5 SSDs we could find for sale.
I configured a 1080p-capable gaming PC for just $400 - here's how you can build your own

1 week ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

(Image credit: Cooler Master / Tom's Hardware)Between tariffs and other ongoing forms of inflation, the price of everything seems to be shooting up lately. It’s getting more and more difficult to build a PC for less than $800. However, what if I told you that, as of today, you can build a competent gaming rig for around $400? You’ll have to make some compromises, particularly on storage and RAM. And you can forget about getting a discrete graphics card.
Would you buy this? $44 PC promises "powerful performance" and "striking visuals"

3 weeks ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

(Image credit: Shutterstock (1483366232))I was browsing through the r/buildapcsales today, looking for something interesting, when I stumbled onto quite the deal. Amazon is selling a fully-functional desktop mini PC for just $44.99, and that's not even a limited-time sale. But just what do you get for your money? The Wo-We Mini PC is powered by a dual-core, Intel Celeron N4020 CPU and sports 4GB of RAM, 128GB of eMMC storage, and Wi-Fi 5 wireless connectivity.
Google is killing the web with AI Overviews - I made an extension to block them

3 weeks ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

Let’s be honest about it. The web isn’t what it used to be, and Google is the culprit — or at least one of them. The company has decided to push AI overviews and AI mode onto search users, regardless of the damage it causes to the user experience or the harm it may inflict. The company recently announced that it’s pushing AI Overviews, which appear above the organic search results, to even more countries and queries. These overviews are often comically wrong.
This $79 tablet deal solved an embarrassing personal problem for me

1 month ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

Every now and again, a tech deal can really change your life in a very immediate and critical way. That happened to me just this weekend ,when I purchased the Lenovo M9 tablet at Best Buy for $79 and gave it to my six year old daughter. For months, I had been pushing aside a growing problem. My daughter loves watching videos on YouTube Kids, but she can't run the YouTube or YouTube Kids apps on her Amazon Fire for Kids tablet.
4TB SSDs now as low as $0.05 per GB, Samsung at $0.06 per GB

1 month ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

In honor of Memorial Day, Amazon, Newegg, B&H and their competitors are having a slew of sales on PC components. While most SSDs are not at all-time lows, this is still a good time to buy a 4TB SSD, with prices hovering as low as 5 cents per GB for respectable brands such as TeamGroup, Silicon Power and Crucial. If you want a Samsung drive, the 990 Evo Polus, which offers 7,250 MB/s reads and 6,300 MB/s writes is just 6 cents per GB.
Grab an RTX 5090-Powered Alienware Desktop for $600 Off

1 month ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

The RTX 5090 is Nvidia's top-of-the-line card, which makes it the fastest consumer graphics card you can buy right now. But can you actually buy it? Most places are sold out of the RTX 5090 and prices from scalpers on eBay range from $3,400 to more than $4,000 for a card that's supposed to sell for around $1,999. Fortunately, you can get a fully-loaded Alienware Area-51 desktop with an RTX 5090 inside for not much more than the bare card.
Memorial Day Tech Deals Live: Best savings this holiday weekend

1 month ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

Memorial Day this year falls on May 26th in both the U.S. and UK. Traditionally a day to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice, it's also a time when many retailers have huge sales on everything from mattresses to M.2 SSDs.In the tech world, this is a great time to save money on everything from peripherals to components to pre-built PC and gaming laptops. It's also the biggest sale you're going to see before Prime Day arrives sometime in July.
Best of Computex 2025: More hardware than hype

1 month ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch |Andrew Freedman |Brandon Hill |Matt Safford

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)Each spring, most of the leading PC hardware vendors gather in Taiwan for Computex, a huge showcase of everything from giant laptops to mini PCs, monitors, cooling, storage, CPUs and graphics cards. If you love PCs like we do, this show is the most important one of the year. This year’s expo was dubbed “AI Next,” because every computer and component has to at least claim to benefit from AI.
Watch Nvidia's Computex 2025 keynote right here

1 month ago | tomshardware.com | Avram Piltch

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is speaking live from Computex Taipei and the live stream is embedded below! The event takes place at 11 am Taiwan time which is 11 pm ET, 8 pm PT and 4 am BST. We expect Huang to talk a lot about AI and Nvidia's industry-leading hardware. He'll likely make some announcements and we can imagine many will have to do with datacenter computing, but perhaps there will be some tidbits for desktop users as well.