Jacob Ridley
Jacob earned his first byline writing for his own tech blog. From there, he graduated to professionally breaking things as hardware writer at PCGamesN, where he was one half of a popular weekly YouTube show. He would go on to run the team as hardware editor before joining PC Gamer's world-class staff as senior hardware editor. Today, he's managing editor of the hardware team, and you'll find him spending his days reporting on the latest developments in the technology and gaming industries. He's found reporting from floors, benches, and, if he's lucky, plush press rooms at the biggest tech shows, such as Computex and CES. But more often than not he's hunched over the office test bench evaluating the newest PC components.
When he's not writing about GPUs and CPUs, you'll find Jacob trying to get as far away from the modern world as possible by wild camping.
Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
GitHub has a copy of every open source project in its database during 2020 located deep inside a frozen mine
By Jacob Ridley published
News Humans may go, but open source lives forever.
The best PC cases in 2024: These are the chassis I'd use for my next gaming builds
By Dave James last updated
Best Case You'll want the best PC case if you're building your perfect gaming PC.
Low-profile memory module headed to laptops might be destined for desktops too
By Jacob Ridley published
News The CAMM2 memory module standard would effectively replace 'sticks' of RAM in laptops. Maybe some desktops, too.
After a deluge of AI-powered products CES 2024 is making it tougher than ever to define what AI actually is
By Jacob Ridley published
AI, eh? Algorithms, automation, and smart features—what does it really mean to have a product powered by AI?
I just played Lies of P on Samsung's glasses-free 3D gaming monitor—and it definitely beats a 3D TV
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 Lies of P looks darn good in 3D.
I saw many gaming laptops at CES 2024 but the redesigned Zephyrus G14 is my pick of the bunch
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 A change worth making.
AMD believes it has the upper hand over Nvidia in upscaling thanks to driver-based frame gen: 'they're probably going to need to do something similar'
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 As Nvidia and AMD continue to trade blows, AMD's Aaron Steinman thinks Nvidia may need to change tack.
MSI built its own version of a Founders Edition for the RTX 4080 Super and it's just as hilariously large
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 MSI is borrowing the best bits of Nvidia's FE design.
Motherboards with hidden connectors are shaping up to be one of few fun concepts that make it mainstream
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 Us PC gamers might just be vain enough to make these tidy and clean motherboards a thing.
Melted GPU power connectors shouldn't be something to worry about with these new PSUs and connectors at CES 2024
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 Let's hope these solve the melty-connector problem once and for all.
I don't know whether to be afraid or impressed by this PCIe 5.0 SSD with a tiny liquid cooler attached
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 Friggin' SSDs with friggin' liquid coolers.
I spoke to an Nvidia AI-powered NPC about his ramen and his responses were frighteningly good
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 Ramen, chit chat and AI-powered people.
Nvidia's G-Sync Pulsar hopes to banish a form of motion blur that's plagued PC gaming for years
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 All the while maintaining fully variable refresh rates.
Intel to roll out 14th Gen's game optimization software to older 12/13th Gen hybrid CPUs after all
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 That's an unexpected change of heart.
Intel rounds out the Raptor Lake Refresh CPU lineup with a few cheaper chips though some are still basically Alder Lake
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 Also now officially announced are the latest 14th Gen HX mobile chips that'll occupy space alongside newer, more exciting Meteor Lake chips.
Ray tracing coming to Diablo 4 in March, shadows and reflections getting a makeover
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 Check out the teaser trailer from Nvidia's CES 2024 special address.
Hands on: Intel's Core Ultra 7 165H is golden for gaming, if you can turn on XeSS, and mostly playable without
By Jacob Ridley published
CES 2024 I've had some time to tinker with Intel's Meteor Lake processor inside MSI's Prestige 16 laptop, and it's a reasonable gaming chip if you don't expect too much out of it.
Intel Core i7 14700K review
By Jacob Ridley published
Core blimey A perfectly good stand-in for a Core i9.
Customers left cold as Fanatec says Sony validation is delaying ClubSport DD+ wheel base: 'we expected to receive this approval sooner'
By Jacob Ridley published
News Customers that pre-ordered the base for delivery last year have now found out that licensing may be the cause of recent delays.
Inside the F1 team treating esports like a Formula One Grand Prix
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Lights out I've seen the technical heart of Alpine, the F1 team bringing Formula One's obsession over data to sim racing tournaments.
The PC Gamer tech team's New Year's resolutions
By Nick Evanson published
Promises, promises What do you mean? Of course we'll stick to them!
The PC Gamer Needlessly Terrible Hardware Naming Awards 2023: Our favourite awful names for otherwise reasonable products
By Andy Edser published
Awful It's award season here at PC Gamer, and we'd be remiss if we didn't point out some of the very best terrible, awful, no-good product names we've seen.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2023: The winners
By Dave James published
The winners All the winners from the best tech released and tested in the past 12 months of PC gaming.
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