Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
'The ongoing conversations around ARM vs x86 power are based on a false premise,' says Intel's VP of technical marketing
News ARM might appear more naturally efficient, yet Intel insists x86 is just as good in the right hands.
There still might be more RX 7000-series AMD GPUs on the way as rumours suggest two under $250
News It's early days, though there's still room for more graphics cards at the bottom of the stack.
'Google is a monopolist' says US judge in ruling on exclusivity deals to get Google Search on all your platforms all the time
News "Google’s distribution agreements are exclusive and have anticompetitive effects."
Intel is laying off 15,000 people: 'We are making some of the most consequential changes in our company's history'
News Announces revenue of $12.8 billion for the quarter with operating income of zilch.
A law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action case against Intel for 13th/14th Gen CPU instability issues
News And you can register your interest via an online form.
Thank you, Freeware: I was just saved from USB disconnect/reconnect hell by a simple logging tool
<3 God bless USBLogView.
Zen 5 tested: AMD's Ryzen AI 300-series brings new cores and a revamped RDNA 3.5 GPU for chunky performance gains in laptops and handhelds
Zen 5 tested AMD's thrown everything at its new mobile chip to top Meteor Lake, and it does just that.
Keyboards might be cheating now: what is Snap Tap/SOCD and why is it causing a crisis for competitive shooters?
Tap this! One new feature on a gaming keyboard and everyone loses their minds!
Asus ROG Azoth Extreme review
Big money One of the gaming greats weighed down by an absurdly heavy price tag.
AMD delays Ryzen 9000-series retail launch by a couple of weeks after discovering an issue with the first batch of chips
News The Ryzen 9000-series is now expected to be available from retailers on August 15, AMD says.
Call yourself a bass head? Walk around wearing a pair of Ol' Thumpy headphones, I dare you
News They come with Helmholtz resonators tuned to pump up the low frequencies.
Tesla will roll out 'genuinely useful' humanoid robots to factory floor next year says Musk
News Could we get one to tidy the PC Gamer office?
CrowdStrike CEO apologises for global IT outage that has seen planes grounded, health services halted and the BSOD appearing in oh so many places it shouldn't
News You think you're having a bad day.
Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 16 Gen 9 review
Unbalanced Excellent gaming performance doesn't make up for a lacklustre spec for the money.
Join me as I build a wicked gaming PC for ~$1,000 out of Prime Day sale parts
Prime Day Live Let's build ourselves a tasty machine that'll play the latest games at 1440p or better.
The internet is not a free-for-all—we shouldn't let big tech companies wish copyright out of existence
Hands off Is everything on the internet fair game for AI? Nope, and it never has been.
Don't sweat it—Zenless Zone Zero's system requirements demand nothing more than a ten-year old GPU and 8 GB of RAM
News Budget gamers, you're good to go.
Nvidia could face antitrust charges in France as 'the risk of abuse by chip providers' scrutinised by competition authority
News Follow-up to raids at Nvidia's offices in September.
Samsung was either feeling generous or someone messed up big time when it temporarily slashed £1,400 off a 49-inch 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor
News I missed it!
Best gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations
DIY From an $800 penny-saving PC to a $4,000 monster.
The ideal desk fan for a PC builder: I've kept the best of Britain's lacklustre summer away with Noctua's quiet, effective and pricey desk fan
Cool off Noctua's desk fan is everything you'd expect it to be.
AMD's new 890M mobile GPU could be over 30% faster than the 780M currently used in most handheld gaming PCs
News The new Ryzen AI 300-series chips will likely be the chip of choice for future handheld gaming PCs.
