Rahim Amir

Rahim Amir

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Rahim Amir is a UAE-based tech writer who enjoys building PCs as much as he enjoys writing about them. He has been professionally writing about PC hardware since 2023, focusing on buyer’s guides, hardware reviews, and sponsored content and features related to tech.

Having built hundreds of gaming PCs and being an avid gamer in his spare time, Rahim tends to have stronger opinions about hardware than most. This is particularly on display when he gets his way with powerful, but minimalistic RGB builds even as Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs come a close second.

In addition to his contributions to TechRadar, Rahim’s work has also been featured on Game Rant and financial news websites.

When he’s not working, you can find him playing DotA with friends or schmoozing to take the world over in Civilization. Alternatively, you can find him binging through the entirety of the Lord of The Rings universe with extended editions in play where applicable.

You can currently catch Rahim grinding Path of Exile 2, complaining about his (extremely low) unique loot drop rate, or actively participating in one of the numerous (and heated) debates centered around Tolkien's universe on multiple forums daily.

If you have a PC build or a Satisfactory playthrough in progress, he is likely to have some advice to send your way, especially regarding verticality being key for the latter. For the former, Rahim enjoys all aspects of the process including researching the components he will eventually use, benchmarking the latest and greatest hardware he can get his hands on, and somewhat surprisingly, cable management once he gets his latest build to POST.

Articles by: Rahim Amir

Amazon
Despite spending billions on data centers and AI, US government report finds Amazon workers are using food stamps more than ever

By Rahim Amir Published

Multi-billion-dollar buildouts for AI partners, but an increasing number of food-stamp recipients among one's employees?

Bitcoin fail
Massive leak at Bitcoin data center sees millions of gallons of water wasted — with schools, offices and businesses all closed

By Rahim Amir Published

A Bitcoin mining site in Oklahoma leaked 3.8 million gallons of water, effectively closing schools for two days, as the city admitted it never enforced its own stop-work order from 2023.

The GMKtec Nucbox M5 Ultra Pictured
GMKtec is offering a surprisingly affordable mini PC that won't break the bank

By Rahim Amir Published

GMKtec M5 Ultra mini PC starts near $270 with dual 2.5GbE and 64GB of headroom, but the octa-core Ryzen 7 inside is a rebadged 2021 chip that could limit performance.

A data center with racks of servers and lots of lights glowing
American data centers in just seven states are reportedly using more water than all the cities in California

By Rahim Amir Published

Data centers in seven states are being linked to the consumption of 10.4 million acre-feet of water annually.

The Huawei MateBook Pro S comes in 5 different colors
Huawei's new ultra-light laptop is genuinely ridiculously slim and slender at just 798g - but Western fans might never get their hands on one

By Rahim Amir Published

Huawei's 798g MateBook Pro S is a genuine engineering feat, even if Huawei's claims of a 'breakthrough' are exaggerated.

Nvidia
Another Rowhammer attack has been detected, and Nvidia workstation GPUs are firmly in the firing line

By Rahim Amir Published

Nvidia spent a year telling people ECC was the answer to GPU Rowhammer. GPUThor might have just proved them wrong.

Nvidia Blackwell GPU
Nvidia unveils custom high-bandwidth memory promising higher bandwidth and lower power use - but who will actually get to use it?

By Rahim Amir Published

Nvidia says its custom NVHBM beats HBM4E by 30% on bandwidth and 15% on power, but the standard has yet to be produced en masse.

A render of Lenovo's Project Swan concept
Lenovo's Project Swan rolls a 14-inch laptop out to 17 inches sideways that is already lighter than the rollable you can buy today

By Rahim Amir Published

Lenovo's Project Swan rolls a 14-inch laptop out to 17 inches sideways at 1.6kg, which is considerably lighter than carrying a laptop plus a portable monitor, but there is no price tag in tow

Lenovo's Project AeroBlade Proof of Concept Laptop
Lenovo's fanless mobility-centric Project AeroBlade weighs under 830g and has Thunderbolt, which is more than the ThinkBook it potentially won't replace yet

By Rahim Amir Published

Lenovo's fanless Project AeroBlade weighs under 830g and has Thunderbolt 4. The Intel-based ThinkBook, which was announced alongside it, weighs 990g and has neither Thunderbolt nor USB4 on offer

A render of the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n laptop
Lenovo just put NVIDIA's Arm superchip in two Yoga laptops, but professionals might be more enthused by their AI-centric memory configurations

By Rahim Amir Published

Nvidia's RTX Spark headlines Lenovo's Yoga refresh at IFA, with two laptops, two pen-first tablets, and up to 128GB of unified memory

The Lenovo ThinkBook 14x Gen 2 in a Celestial White trim
Lenovo's 990g ThinkBook 14x Gen 2 is the only laptop at its AI-centric launch with no AI claims attached, and that might be intentional

By Rahim Amir Published

Lenovo's ThinkBook 14x Gen 2 weighs 990g, offers a 2.8K 120Hz OLED, and costs $999.99 while making no mention of AI at an otherwise AI-centric launch event from the computer giant.

The Lenovo ThinkCentre X Ultra pictured with its LED lighting on display
Lenovo's ThinkCentre X Ultra puts 128GB of unified memory in a 1.6-liter box, and you can cluster four of them together

By Rahim Amir Published

Lenovo's ThinkCentre X Ultra packs 128GB of unified memory into 1.6 liters for $3,699, and says four will cluster into a potential 512GB pool

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers fire standard missile 2 (SM-2)
Lockheed carries out missile launches directly from a drone boat - will the US Navy be next?

By Rahim Amir Published

A crewless sailboat has fired two live missiles at RIMPAC

The OpenAI logo displayed on a screen with the flag of the United States in the background.
OpenAI data center chief leaves the company as exec exodus continues

By Rahim Amir Published

OpenAI's data center chief is out after 17 months, and the company had already broken his job into three pieces before he left.

A render of OpenAI's first generation Jalapeño chip
OpenAI lifts the lid on its in-house Jalapeño chip - with benchmarks claiming it beats Nvidia's GB300

By Rahim Amir Published

OpenAI says its 700W Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia's 1,400W GB300 in efficiency, while skipping a crucial head-to-head against the latter's Vera Rubin architecture.

Intel
Diamonds, Crescents and Wildcats: Intel shows off its hardware for the next generation of agentic AI workloads

By Rahim Amir Published

Intel laid out its whole agentic AI hardware stack at Hot Chips 2026, but two of the three chips are still a year or more from shipping.

Student watching video with a cup of coffee in a library
This company wants to help universities get around Microsoft 365's extra costs as it moves away from unlimited cloud storage

By Rahim Amir Published

Microsoft's free unlimited education storage is gone, and Arcitecta is the latest vendor selling universities the exit ramp they need.

Google
Google unveils Gemini AI plans specifically for legal and finance workers

By Rahim Amir Published

Google shipped Gemini editions for law firms and banks. Both are previews, and pricing isn't available yet.

Modified Ukrainian Drone
Ukraine warns Russia has built metal-cutting drones to topple its power grid

By Rahim Amir Published

Ukraine says Russia built a drone with cutting charges in its wings to drop power pylons.

Find My iPhone displayed in settings
Security expert hijacks Apple's Find My network to share data with a Linux device

By Rahim Amir Published

Researcher tricks Apple's Find My into feeding live location data to a Linux box, with no Mac or iPhone required.

Xiaomi logo
Xiaomi will now let you pre-order its first NAS — and at a surprisingly attractive price for customers everywhere

By Rahim Amir Published

Xiaomi's first NAS starts at CNY 2,699 with drives included, uses the same chip as Synology's 2023 budget boxes, and isn't yet available outside China.

Quantum computing
IBM reveals plans for 'quantum fridges' — its next-gen cooling hardware, which could be the key to quantum computers finally reaching their potential

By Rahim Amir Published

IBM cools two connected fridges to a hundredth of a degree above absolute zero, but the temperature is arguably the least impressive part of its achievement.

Samsung Logo
Samsung thinks Claude Code can help it boost chip design — but admits the AI still makes some worryingly big mistakes

By Rahim Amir Published

A different kind of numbers game

A render of Ultra Maritime's SSQ-125B and Sea Spear
This company wants to stop underwater drones and even submarines with a whole new form of sonar technology

By Rahim Amir Published

A sensor that listens silently, then calls in a second one to ping the target, could be a key pairing that helps the US Navy track underwater drones before they reach the pier.

AMD
'Same compute, fewer resources - More compute, same energy': AMD says it is on track to make AI four times more energy efficient

By Rahim Amir Published

AMD says two of its 2030 racks will match 570 from 2024 using twenty times less power and reducing carbon intensity by twenty-eight times.

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