Latest articles by Jacob Fox
The GPU market is back, baby, and it's astonishing 'market watchers who have been predicting its doom for decades'
News NPUs be damned, give us those sweet, sweet discrete graphics.
I tried SteelSeries' new Hall effect gaming keyboard and I'm genuinely surprised these switches deliver such a satisfying THONK
News Listen to that thickity thock.
Adata SD810 1 TB external SSD review
Simply Speedy This portable SSD has no unnecessary frills. It's simple and fast, just the way I like it.
Samsung's just started producing what is effectively its first proper PCIe 5.0 SSD and it's faster than any currently on the market
News Could this be the start of PCIe 5.0 SSDs that are actually worth it for gaming?
Google finally wins a court case and gets out of a €1.49 billion fine over anti-competitive practices
News Despite the court agreeing with most of the European Commission's findings.
'Please halt this activity': Not-so-open OpenAI seems to have gone full mob boss, sending threatening emails to anyone who asks its latest AI models probing questions
News You probably shouldn't use the phrase "reasoning trace" when speaking to o1-preview or o1-mini.
Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs could support up to 10,000 MT/s DDR5 CUDIMM RAM, but that'll be using the Gear 2 setting which is pretty rubbish for gaming
News Whether great for gaming or not, memory with speeds in the tens of thousands is exciting.
The Steam Deck's rare but troublesome 'loading throbber' issue has been fixed
News Loading throbbers are here to stay, but that doesn't mean you have to get stuck looking at them.
AMD blog fail suggests Fluid Motion Frames 2 is exiting beta in its full September driver release
News More free frames, what's not to love?
Nvidia RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 are reportedly set to have their designs finalised this month and their TDPs might be lower than some thought
News I'm taking all this with a bucket of salt, personally.
Acer's just announced a 600 Hz monitor that can surely only be for those with superhuman vision
News Can such a high refresh rate justify spending significant money on a 1080p TN panel in 2024?
'People can type misinformation into a word processor': Bill Gates hand-waves the problem of AI fakery and focuses on the positives
AI Fakery Is AI misinformation all a big fuss over nothing, then?
Acer's new gaming laptop concept has a pop-out gamepad that splits into two like a Switch controller
News Just ditch those freaky little speakers and I'm sold.
Couch PC gaming could get a whole load more convenient as Microsoft has started testing a virtual keyboard layout for controllers
News Only a couple of decades behind consoles, right?
It looks like you won't be able to uninstall Recall, the controversial AI-assisted Windows 11 screen-capping feature, and I can't say I'm too surprised
News Can you recall a time when annoying Windows features were easy to uninstall? I can't.
It's not the display's fault but 16:10 laptop gaming isn't perfect. Yet nobody wants to hear it, not even my friends and colleagues
need space Consider this a lesson in self-ostracisation.
AverMedia X'tra Go GC515 review
Streaming hub An all-in-one recording, streaming, peripheral-ing hub for handhelds.
The latest influx of Intel Arrow Lake rumours make me cautiously hopeful about desktop and mobile processors for a change
News I'm not getting the confetti out just yet, though.
Cooler Master painted a landscape onto a CPU using thermal paste and the hardware nerd in me can't help but think 'that's way too much'
News Would slapping a cooler on top be satisfying or heartbreaking?
Nvidia says 'every PC with an RTX is an AI PC' as gaming revenue increases 16% year-on-year for the GPU behemoth
News Gaming's a small but healthy slice of the Nvidia pie.
MSI's latest BIOS could give AMD Zen 5 yet another performance boost with a 105 W TDP toggle for the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X
News Forget "fine wine" AMD GPUs, how about "fast-aging fine wine" AMD CPUs?
You can now rent a 'minibrain' for $500 a month and the potential implications are horrifying
News Once the remit of sci-fi and thought experiments, this is now actual reality.
No need to wait, that AMD CPU performance update is available right now in Windows 23H2, and even Zen 3 and Zen 4 chips should receive a boost
News If I was running a Ryzen chip I'd be installing this right away.
