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
![Aerocool power supplies at Computex 2024](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cMGeX3xugUy6frW5SaZAy8-320-80.png)
Aerocool reckons its new power supply will last you at least 15 years and it's providing the warranty to prove it
By Jacob Ridley published
News The new Max P1 has a mega warranty period.
![Noctua's newest fan and cooler on display at Computex, 2024.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/C2sVWe6kgRdeovHbhX39dQ-320-80.png)
This is not a drill: Noctua's best fan yet is actually coming out this June
By Jacob Ridley published
News It's happening! It's (probably) happening!
![Noctua's Thermosiphon cooler concept at its Computex booth in Taiwan.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Dj6iTBFXbkkxHSBaWqY2Rg-320-80.png)
A liquid cooler with no pump: Noctua is working on a prototype targeting 'AIO level performance'
By Jacob Ridley published
News The almighty thermosiphon.
![Hyte Thicc Q80 Trio cooler at Computex 2024.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9ax6y3VAD7rvvuiS7frJbC-320-80.png)
Hyte is claiming its new AIO CPU cooler to be the quietest and coolest ever made
By Jacob Ridley published
News "The raid boss of liquid coolers."
![Noctua power supply made with Seasonic at Computex, 2024.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/artkZsEiv6FMTKYGJk7HEC-320-80.png)
Witness the mighty Noctua power supply
By Jacob Ridley published
News Made by Seasonic, improved by Noctua.
![Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger at a press conference at Computex 2024 in Taiwan.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/g8gAUSziymaZenVoJd2KFm-320-80.png)
Intel's latest processor is mostly made by its biggest manufacturing rival because it had 'a better process technology at that point in time'
By Jacob Ridley published
News Though for its successor, Panther Lake, "almost all of the tiles are on Intel."
![Intel's Lunar Lake GPU architecture on show at an event in Taiwan.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fuKrTbBEAfmp7x9AWeE5oC-320-80.png)
It's on: our first look at Intel Battlemage comes from Lunar Lake's new graphics silicon with its redesigned Xe2 architecture
By Jacob Ridley published
News The Xe2 GPU architecture will power everything from low-power mobile chips to desktop graphics cards.
![Intel's Lunar Lake Lion Cove cores without Hyper-Threading](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GMpoQhXEuVJvvL3GqMwTSJ-320-80.png)
One thread per core: 'we can deliver better than Hyper-Threading performance without Hyper-Threading' claims Intel for Lunar Lake
By Jacob Ridley published
News New E-cores reportedly make up for the multithreaded performance lost.
![An Intel briefing where the details of its next-generation Lunar Lake mobile processors were unveiled.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9X9Ubak9GBrzEd3YrV26ab-320-80.png)
Intel talks shop about next-gen Lunar Lake processors: 'We will win in performance, we will win in graphics, we will win in AI'
By Jacob Ridley published
News Lunar Lake comes with better graphics, cores, and memory. And more mentions of AI.
![Intel's Lunar Lake GPU architecture on show at an event in Taiwan.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RsYMZyYFFHUDnvq2pa2ihE-320-80.png)
Intel has made 'a tremendous amount of fixes for compatibility' in its Battlemage GPU architecture to ensure games run as they should
By Jacob Ridley published
News There's more to a good graphics card than DirectX compatibility, says Intel's Tom Petersen.
![An Asus e-ink laptop screen prototype at the company's HQ in Taiwan.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TMHVa3uu7HtatXEcgjWiqN-320-80.png)
Forget stickers on your laptop, Asus put a customisable e-ink display on the lid instead
By Jacob Ridley published
News This concept from Asus sadly has no release date, though I've seen it working in real-time.
![Asus ROG Harpe Ace Extreme gaming mouse in use at an event in Taipei.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NGf2Nct4aeFhf9B7e3f7QR-320-80.png)
This new carbon fiber ROG gaming mouse is absurd and awesome in equal measure
By Jacob Ridley published
News Do I need it? Nope. Do I want it? Oh yes.
![An Asus ROG Azoth Extreme gaming keyboard at at event in Taipei.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/H4Ysf5WxvV3H5y3rFamdy9-320-80.png)
You thought your keyboard was over the top: You can adjust the typing feel on the new ROG Azoth Extreme while enjoying its color OLED
By Jacob Ridley published
News I'm fearful of what the price will be.
![Nvidia RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nU4bHmg2FAePCeGcfW6bsc-320-80.jpg)
Microsoft is releasing a preview build of Windows that offers more personalised AI running on Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
By Jacob Ridley published
News The new API will come later this year, Nvidia says.
![Asus ROG Ally X gaming handheld at an event in Taipei, Taiwan.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bMQKSfEsT8jDgi8Cea5TgF-320-80.png)
Hands on with the $799 ROG Ally X: comfy to hold despite bigger battery and SSD than the original
By Jacob Ridley published
News Shipping in late July.
![Asus ROG Ally handheld gaming PC](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/623iqAZhBKedMMJxhKioCd-320-80.jpg)
Asus further outlines how it's improving its RMA process in follow-up to initial tone-deaf response: 'we are committed to doing better'
By Jacob Ridley published
News Facing backlash from its poor RMA process, Asus now vows to improve with detailed updates on what's changing.
![Razer Fujin Pro gaming chair at a desk](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zT5EaYXirKgMwvZxhEdzxS-320-80.jpg)
Razer Fujin Pro review
By Jacob Ridley published
Subtle A first stab at the premium office chair market, the Fujin Pro is not as far off the mark as you'd expect.
![TSMC semiconductor manufacturing process showing multiple wafers stacked up](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CHPKtJPpZ97km5bxLLvhHG-320-80.jpg)
The world's largest chipmaker could flip a kill switch and remotely disable its machines in the event of an invasion
By Jacob Ridley published
News That's one helluva kill switch.
![Microsoft's Task Manager in Windows 11](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sM9ZgtUVQf9UdK3jNxtbAA-320-80.jpg)
PC user annoyed about Task Manager jumping around gets told how to fix it with one button—by the developer that built the application 30 years ago
By Jacob Ridley published
News Now that's great customer support.
![Scarlett Johansson at the 2020 Oscars.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/W86ZvFzb52fW8RuQFASMVD-320-80.jpg)
OpenAI pauses use of GPT-4o 'Her' voice due to similarity to Scarlett Johansson: 'so eerily similar… my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference'
By Jacob Ridley published
News The Hollywood star says they were approached by OpenAI to use her likeness, but declined.
![Noctua's NV-FS2 fans on audio equipment.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/q3WSZA8oY2KYv2DxMXkC3b-320-80.jpg)
Noctua's newest products will keep you, and your consoles, cool
By Jacob Ridley published
News Built using our favorite PC fan, the NF-A12x25.
![Intel Lunar Lake](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bRop79AxaTjxW9Q3fdYt39-320-80.jpg)
Intel's Lunar Lake is here to remind you x86 still has a place in laptops: 'You've never seen x86 power characteristics quite like this'
By Dave James published
news It's coming out swinging, promising faster AI, CPU, and gaming performance than AMD and Qualcomm
![Google Search homepage with the Google logo and search bar.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PVTjyzVPLpcQ6iUazKhDHD-320-80.jpg)
Google looks intent on breaking the business of the internet, and AI won't fix it
By Jacob Ridley published
Hi, Gemini New AI search tools may be sold as useful to users, but what's in it for the people creating quality content?
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