Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
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.
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.
