Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Ultra-high refresh gaming monitors might be all the rage in 2025 if MSI's and ASRock's latest 500+ Hz panels are anything to go by
News RIP my 3060 Ti. I don't think it'll deliver 520 fps.
A debloating wizard has managed to get Windows 11 running on just 184 MB of RAM, and it looks like it can actually run apps
News It can probably run Notepad, at least.
2025 PC hardware preview: This is the tech we want in our gaming rigs from the coming year
Wishlist Some of this is more certain than others, but it's all very enticing.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2024
Gear of the year The year of the Supers, plus a couple of surprise AMD launches.
2024 was the year I returned to earbuds after writing them off for nearly a decade thanks to the SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds
Best buds These earbuds were the perfect guide back into in-ear module listening.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming monitor of 2024
Gear of the year The year of super-expensive OLEDs.
OneXPlayer has teased a handheld PC with a removable keyboard that's getting me all sorts of excited for laptop/handheld hybrids
News Do you want a laptop or handheld? Why not both?
You can now WhatsApp message ChatGPT or call it on the phone, even from an old rotary blower. What a time it is to be alive
News And so it begins.
Arm pushes back against Qualcomm in court, claiming it's not out to be a chip competitor and the current licence situation is losing them $50 million in revenue
News And the dispute continues.
Microsoft is Nvidia's biggest AI chip buyer of the year, and it's not even close. With ByteDance and Tencent coming out ahead of Zuck, Bezos, and Musk's outfits, too
News Beat that, Blackwell.
Intel says 'demand for Arc B580 graphics cards is high' but the GPU should be restocked every week
News Probably because we've been starved of genuine budget value for so long.
Jen-Hsun Huang might be 'Taylor Swift but for tech', but did you know he was once praised in Sports Illustrated as being 'perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest'?
News A dab hand at both paddles and wafers, is Huang.
Some high-stakes poker players are cheating with an earpiece that's 'so small that you can’t take it off with your fingers' and looks like a 'James Bond movie device'
news Sit 'em at a table with Phil Hellmuth and Tony G, I'll watch.
Firefox is getting rid of its 'Do Not Track' setting and what it's being replaced with is a bit of a bait and switch for privacy concerns
News Is asking not to sell data the same as asking not to track it?
Pat Gelsinger rallies against claims some chipmakers are struggling to produce good wafers: anyone using yields as a % 'doesn't understand semiconductor yield'
News It's all about the defect density.
Anti-Nvidia crypto lawsuit will go ahead despite Nvidia's appeal, US Supreme Court rules
news But with its coffers overflowing, will Nvidia care?
Nvidia's eyeing up ways to beef up its future AI chips with GPUs on top of GPUs and the power of light
News That's Nvidia's prediction. Mine is more profits.
Thermaltake Gaming Desk Pegboard (Medium) review
Tidy This desk attachment can save you space in a smart fashion.
Intel's interim CEO suggests Gelsinger's replacement should have chip fabrication experience, giving a glimmer of hope that Intel foundry could remain
News Could it be ride or die for Intel's chip fabrication?
Valve's new 'Powered by SteamOS' branding has been unveiled, but it's more about clawing handhelds away from Windows than it is about new desktop Steam Machines
news Then again, with a Steam Controller 2 potentially around the corner...
'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action
news The company's also tried to clear up some misconceptions.
'I've been waiting over 4 hours in the cold': Zipcar's Black Friday-related car sharing outage left some users locked out of their rides like leg-using chumps
News Nothing convenient about that.
Our first 'official' look at the new Lenovo Legion Go S shows that, unlike the original, it should be a bona fide mainstream handheld
news Can Lenovo retain its unique stamp in this segment?
