Latest articles by Jacob Fox
The RTX 5090 might make triple-fan cards look light on cooling if these four-fan and five-fan versions from Gigabyte and MSI are anything to go by
News Can we make it to six?
AMD might have told us little about its RDNA 4 graphics cards but at least we know the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT have 16 GB of VRAM
News It looks like Asus has actually told us more than AMD did.
With its Prime and TUF Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards, Asus is ditching thermal paste for a thermal pad that melts when hot
news This should really make the TUF cards tough over the long-term (sorry).
Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I'm not sure whether using it should be considered cheating or not
News Will it be the "ultimate gaming copilot" like Razer says, or more like an annoying sibling shouting over your shoulder?
AMD Ryzen AI Max is finally here: 'the most advanced mobile x86 processor ever created' with 40 RDNA 3.5 CUs and 16 Zen 5 cores
News Strix Halo has finally arrived.
AMD has just announced the two new 9000-series X3D chips we were hoping for, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D
News But both have the same amount of 3D V-Cache as the 9800X3D.
This upcoming Micro-OLED VR headset has absolutely everything and weighs less than 200 grams but of course it costs nearly 4x the Quest 3
News Chonky or super-expensive seems to be the main dilemma.
Thanks to Doom, I can finally solve captcha prompts without wanting to spoon my eyeballs out and wander into the wilderness
News AI crawlers must now surely be Doomed.
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2025: the top cans I'd buy myself
Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.
Ultra-high refresh gaming monitors might be all the rage in 2025 if MSI's and ASRock's latest 500+ Hz panels are anything to go by
News RIP my 3060 Ti. I don't think it'll deliver 520 fps.
A debloating wizard has managed to get Windows 11 running on just 184 MB of RAM, and it looks like it can actually run apps
News It can probably run Notepad, at least.
2025 PC hardware preview: This is the tech we want in our gaming rigs from the coming year
Wishlist Some of this is more certain than others, but it's all very enticing.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2024
Gear of the year The year of the Supers, plus a couple of surprise AMD launches.
2024 was the year I returned to earbuds after writing them off for nearly a decade thanks to the SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds
Best buds These earbuds were the perfect guide back into in-ear module listening.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming monitor of 2024
Gear of the year The year of super-expensive OLEDs.
OneXPlayer has teased a handheld PC with a removable keyboard that's getting me all sorts of excited for laptop/handheld hybrids
News Do you want a laptop or handheld? Why not both?
You can now WhatsApp message ChatGPT or call it on the phone, even from an old rotary blower. What a time it is to be alive
News And so it begins.
Arm pushes back against Qualcomm in court, claiming it's not out to be a chip competitor and the current licence situation is losing them $50 million in revenue
News And the dispute continues.
Microsoft is Nvidia's biggest AI chip buyer of the year, and it's not even close. With ByteDance and Tencent coming out ahead of Zuck, Bezos, and Musk's outfits, too
News Beat that, Blackwell.
Intel says 'demand for Arc B580 graphics cards is high' but the GPU should be restocked every week
News Probably because we've been starved of genuine budget value for so long.
The best wireless gaming earbuds: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears
Budding gamers So you finally managed to bag a Steam Deck or ROG Ally, now what are the best gaming earbuds to go with it?
Jen-Hsun Huang might be 'Taylor Swift but for tech', but did you know he was once praised in Sports Illustrated as being 'perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest'?
News A dab hand at both paddles and wafers, is Huang.
Some high-stakes poker players are cheating with an earpiece that's 'so small that you can’t take it off with your fingers' and looks like a 'James Bond movie device'
news Sit 'em at a table with Phil Hellmuth and Tony G, I'll watch.
