Latest articles by Jacob Fox
There might soon be a new go-to cheap gaming CPU as AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D is rumoured to launch early next month
News Pity the Ryzen 9000-series chips about to be cannibalised by a new gaming-focused last-gen CPU.
AMD's game-tastic next-gen 9000X3D V-Cache CPU spotted on Asus motherboard website
News CPUs we can actually get excited about? :o
'I'm still amazed that it all came together and actually works': YouTuber spends 14 months building a glorious gaming laptop from desktop parts
News Seems like too much effort for me, but I'm glad I can lay my eyes upon it.
Someone's already overclocked the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X above 7.4 GHz
News Damnit, I seem to have misplaced my flask of liquid nitrogen.
Intel sells all its Arm shares, likely raising almost $150 million, AKA peanuts in tech
News $150 million is silly money, but still quite miniscule in the chip fab bizz.
AMD might give the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X a big post-launch TDP boost in the name of chasing higher performance
News There's another rumour going round that we're all just about done with the rollercoaster CPU market.
If you want to have fun while looking silly, check out the Roto VR Explorer, a super spinny chair that aims to solve motion sickness while VR gaming
News Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Unsurprisingly, the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X don't seem to be selling very well right now
News What, you don't want to drop $300+ for a slight boost to gaming performance?
This is the RTX 4080 Super gaming PC I'd buy as a dopamine-crazed serial hobbyist if I had a couple grand lying around
Deal The CPU and graphics card say 'gaming' but the 64 GB memory and 2 TB SSD shout 'content creation'. Who says we can't have both?
Bought a pre-built Intel 13th/14th Gen gaming PC? Here are the warranty extensions different PC builders say they're offering
News A mixed bag, but not too mixed. Most PC makers are matching Intel's 2-year extension.
Next-gen Intel Arrow Lake CPUs rumored to consume at least 100 W less power at high frequencies
News Is Intel making headway with Arrow Lake power efficiency?
MSI and Asus roll out first Intel instability fix for a range of motherboards with 0x129 microcode BIOS
News Here's hoping this microcode fixes things.
Logitech says it has 'no plans' for a subscription mouse—let's keep it that way
News At least the concerns of PC gamers seem to be recognised.
New world's thinnest LPDDR5X memory from Samsung could bode well for handheld gaming PCs
News Thinner or cooler? Either way, I'm here for it
I chose the worst four years to take a hiatus from gaming hardware because now I feel like I'm being handed alien tech when confronted with a Steam Deck
:O And chips are 3D now?! Honestly, I turn my back for two seconds.
Shareholders sue CrowdStrike over consequences of catastrophic worldwide IT outage and I don't think an Uber Eats voucher will cut it this time
News The company's share price has dropped by tens of billions.
Logitech's 'forever mouse' could mean peripherals go the way of coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink by pushing a subscription
News Could a mouse ever be timeless?
This $1,500 gaming PC is what I'd personally buy today if I were looking for an all-AMD build
Deal It looks pretty gorgeous, too, don't you think?
iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for 'hitting our servers a million times in 24 hours' and even the AI company's own chatbot disapproves
News Next, maybe we could teach AI to respect people's boundaries.
Google's now the only search engine that will show new Reddit posts in search results and it's somewhat AI's fault
News When will this Big Tech drama end? Maybe when all this "AI" stuff blows over.
Nvidia's share price drops along with other AI firms, but all is peachy as they collectively remain some of the most valuable companies on the planet
News Markets ebb and flow, even for massively hyped industries.
People are making mini Fractal Design cases for their Raspberry Pi and it's making me wish I owned a 3D printer so I could do the same
News My Raspberry Pi 5 is mighty jealous, right now.
US, UK, and EU finally come together to prevent AI monopoly (catastrophic market failure, not the game)
News Everyone agrees an all-powerful AI run by one company would be a bad idea.
