Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
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.
Looking for the best Prime Day gaming laptop deals? The sales are still ongoing even after the official event has ended
Prime Day Live There are still serious discounts on gaming laptops right now, from Amazon and further afield.
So, Jacob 1 and Jacob 2, why do you enjoy Prime Day? In unison: 'Because our fav Sennheiser headphones are 30% off or more.' Thanks, Jacobs
Prime Day The Jacobs have spoken, and spoken wise words they have.
The greatest PC deals this Prime Day are all the RTX 4070 gaming laptops under $1,200
Prime Day Forget the RTX 4060 above $1,000—you can get a whole lot more silicon for the same money.
I hope these July 4 SSD sales aren't a sign of things to come for Prime Day—they're pretty trash
Deal The power of freedom wasn't enough to quash today's high prices, but I'm hopeful for decent deals come Prime Day.
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.
This RTX 4080 Super is cheap enough at $950 to make it exceedingly tempting
Deal Newegg's Video Card Sale, unsurprisingly, offers up low prices on AMD and Nvidia cards.
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.
An origami USB connector and a games console that'll fit in your wallet—two entries in a contest to make business cards exciting
News Hackaday's business card contest has seen some awesome entries in 2024.
The company that invented the AIO cooler has seen its share price plummet 40% due to a slump in demand
News Things might get worse before they can get better for Asetek.
Tough day at the office? How about a mandatory photo montage to calm you down, ordered by an AI that's monitoring how close you get to breaking point
News A bank is using AI to monitor call center workers' stress levels and automatically play photo montages when it all gets too much.
PCIe 5.0 SSDs are yet to reach tipping point: 'The percentage of Gen5 shipping to the percentage of Gen 4 is very small' but Micron says that might change next year
News In around nine months' time these speedy drives may become more affordable, Micron tells me.
The new memory form factor expected to beat DDR5: 'the future really lies here... LPCAMM2 running on the PC' says Micron
News CAMM2 makes a lot of sense in laptops, but will it ever take off on desktop?
Micron says AI 'is really going to impact the supply demand balance' for PC as it's 'made memory sexy again'
News Micron talks demand, supply and AI at Computex 2024.
Palit has created a part-air, part-liquid, all-monster RTX 4090 graphics card
News The epic RTX 4090 Neptunus.
This Frostpunk 2 RX 7700 XT from Sapphire is a promotional card that actually captures the game's vibe
News Looks bleak, but in a good way!
Ditch the messy controller and cables inside your PC with Lian Li's wireless RGB dongle
News That'll save on cable management.
