Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Adata SE920 2 TB external SSD review
Glass cannon The glass cannon of portable drives: fast but expensive and possibly even risky.
October Prime Day was bangin' this year because we're nearing the end of a generation—this might mean last calls for value this Black Friday
News Do we go for value right now, or next-gen hardware come early 2025?
Fraudsters sentenced for tricking Apple out of more than a whopping $2.5 million by sending in convincing fake iPhones for repair
News Take extra care in the second-hand iPhone market, folks.
Free yourself from stick drift with a Hall effect 8Bitdo controller on sale for $40
Prime Day A Prime Day deal on one of our favorite PC-compatible gamepads.
Samsung T9 4 TB external SSD review
Rugged rubber Fantastic quality, great sustained speeds, and a premium rugged casing.
Gaming keyboards are becoming more like enthusiast keyboards and I can't wait to have my clicky clacky cake and eat it
QWERTY HURTY Can we end up with the best of both worlds?
Shhhhh, Noctua confirms its first ever decibel-dampening power supply will launch this year
News The Noctua Edition PSU should be whisper quiet.
Asus has now made it clear if a product sent for repair will be fixed under warranty or if it'll cost ya
News Let's hope this makes for a more transparent RMA process overall.
Samsung debated selling off its manufacturing arm as 3 nm yields remain low and the chip giant's stock price drops
news TSMC's keeping the ball rolling but healthy competition would be better.
Windows 11 24H2 is finally here and Microsoft's calling it a 'full OS swap', it's just a shame the new Windows update still has Recall
News Hey, at least Task Manager is saying MT/s instead of MHz now.
Nvidia's RTX 4060 is THE dominant GPU, boosting its desktop market share by 34% in a single month on Steam's Hardware Survey
News Caused by budget bargains in the lead-up to the next GPU generation, perhaps?
AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 is out now and hands Radeon gamers a new AI-optimised frame generation option in most games
News The frame gen tech has finally exited beta.
TeamGroup PD20 mini 2 TB external SSD review
Zippy The PD20 is so small it might as well be a USB flash drive—except it's much faster.
This pied piper mouse lured me in with its promises of complete adjustability but it's very clearly a demon in disguise
News It might, however, be the ultimate ergonomic peripheral.
AMD's 7800X3D successor is rumoured to launch in October, as leaker claims the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will be the first Zen 5 3D V-Cache CPU to market
News Even if it's not October, surely 9000-series X3D chips can't be too far off.
Intel CPU crashes: what you need to know—Intel explains the root cause and plans a final microcode fix for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs
Intel issues A fix is here, but only for fresh Intel CPUs that aren't already affected.
Intel has discovered what actually caused its top gaming chips to break and is rolling out another fix
News Another microcode update to fix Intel stability issues and the wheel keeps on turning.
The new SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds actually fit my weird little ears and if that isn't a glowing endorsement then I don't know what is
News Oh, and they sound pretty good, too, I guess.
Presumed Battlemage engineering sample suggests there's some hope for Intel's next-gen Arc GPUs in the mid-range
News There's plenty of headroom for more powerful GPUs in the line-up, too.
This Balrog spacebar is literal fire and has made me realise I need a full set of LOTR keycaps, ASAP
News This keycap's dark fire would certainly avail me.
The GPU market is back, baby, and it's astonishing 'market watchers who have been predicting its doom for decades'
News NPUs be damned, give us those sweet, sweet discrete graphics.
I tried SteelSeries' new Hall effect gaming keyboard and I'm genuinely surprised these switches deliver such a satisfying THONK
News Listen to that thickity thock.
Adata SD810 1 TB external SSD review
Simply Speedy This portable SSD has no unnecessary frills. It's simple and fast, just the way I like it.
