Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Wait, the Steam Controller 2 is in mass production? Someone grab the popcorn because nothing brought out the strong opinions like Valve's first controller
News A Steam Controller 2 might make more sense today than it did back then.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming keyboard
Key whizz Keyboards are my favourite gaming gear and here are the things you absolutely need to know about them.
Nvidia tells the US Supreme Court it should dismiss a lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors over crypto
News Are some people salty they pulled out of investing in Nvidia?
World's biggest PCIe SSD immediately squashed by even bigger and faster PCIe SSD
News Call that an SSD? THIS is an SSD.
Nvidia's first Arm APU is said to offer Strix Halo and RTX 4070 mobile performance, with Alienware already onboard to create an all-Nvidia gaming laptop
news Could 2025 be the year of AMD x86 chips vs Nvidia Arm chips?
Micron's introduced the first PCIe 5 60 TB SSD and it could house 375 Stalker 2 installs, or even better, 35,294 Crab Champions installs
News Yoooo now that's a BIG SSD.
Nvidia's Stalker 2 benchmarks suggest it might be CPU limited, but DLSS 3 looks to make a world of difference at 4K
News This could mean Lumen instead of ray tracing.
A new math benchmark just dropped and leading AI models can solve 'less than 2%' of its problems... oh dear
News Womp womp.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming PC
New PC Guide I bought my first gaming PC almost two decades ago, and here are the things I've learnt since then that I think you should know.
The top AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D overclock just hit 7.24 GHz on HWBOT, but also a stable 6.9 GHz that delivers literally thousands of in-game fps
News Who knew moving the cache down below could be such a game-changer?
AMD finally beats Intel in server revenue, but surprise surprise, Nvidia's still miles ahead
news Can Intel bring it back?
OpenAI has bought the URL of what used to be an adult video chat website for more than $15,500,000
News Will ChatGPT be rebranded to just "Chat"?
Pud's Dolbus gets you 5.1 surround sound from headphones with a side of deadly Saw trap nightmares
News I'll take five.
It looks like 'Windows Intelligence' might subsume 'Copilot' branding, giving yet more evidence that we can't decide how to market AI
News Do you have an Intelligent PC?
CrowdStrike is having problems with Windows again but thankfully just with 24H2 and just in some Office programs
News That sinking feeling when you hear "CrowdStrike", "Windows", and "crash" in the same sentence.
I don't know whether I'd wait for Black Friday when there are already RTX 4070 Super gaming PCs going for so little
Deal Pull the trigger or wait? I'm glad I'm not the one deciding!
The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D might seal Arrow Lake's fate unless Intel cuts prices to compete with the 9000-series
X3Deez Prices Who's buying Intel now, then? I'd guess probably not gamers.
Reddit just turned a profit for the first time in 20 years and its Google and OpenAI partnerships played a surprisingly small part in it
News Machine translation pays dividends.
AMD confirms Ryzen 7 9800X3D will cost $479, highest clock speeds ever for 3D V-Cache and fully unlocked for overclocking
News Oh, and the 3D V-Cache is now located underneath the processor, not on top.
Motherboard manufacturers beat AMD to the punch confirming Ryzen 7 9800X3D as the first 9000X3D chip to launch next week
News The latest whispers from the grapevine are that it won't be cheap, either.
AMD's Dr. Lisa Su predicts AI GPU market will grow to $500 billion by 2028 or 'roughly equivalent to annual sales for the entire semiconductor industry in 2023'
News Please feed some of that back into gaming GPUs, Dr. Su.
Extreme overclockers might need new mounting frames for AMD 9000X3D chips, as Thermal Grizzly says two 'are likely incompatible without modifications'
News De-lidders beware.
Ayaneo's teasing us with concept photos of its 'Code: REVO' handheld, a codename 'symbolizing the innovative strength that leads gamers to walk into a whole new dimension of Ayaneo handhelds'
News Marketing fluff it may be, but pretty marketing fluff nonetheless.
