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Jacob Ridley

Jacob Ridley

Managing Editor, Hardware

Jacob earned his first byline writing for his own tech blog, before graduating to breaking things professionally at PCGamesN, where he was one half of a popular weekly YouTube show. Joining PC Gamer in 2020, Jacob is now managing editor of the hardware team, and you'll usually find him testing the latest components or building a gaming PC. He says he's determined to build a fort as big as a house out of case boxes. Jacob enjoys heading out of the office to report from floors, benches, and, if he's lucky, plush press rooms at the biggest tech shows, such as Computex and CES.

When he's not writing about components, you'll find Jacob trying to get away from the modern world as fast as possible by bike and pitching up camp in murky woods.

Latest articles by Jacob Ridley

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Half-Life: Alyx patch adds foveated rendering support a mere 6 years after the game's release

By Jacob Ridley Published 27 October 26

News Just took launching a VR headset with eye tracking for Valve to add it.

Palit GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card

Only $70 separates RTX 5050, RTX 5060, and RTX 5060 Ti AND the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB is now the same price as the RTX 5070 in what I can only describe as pure carnage

By Jacob Ridley Published 22 October 26

News It's not pretty out there, especially for the RTX 50 series.

A group of gaming laptops on a blue background.

Five things I want you to think about before you buy your first gaming laptop

By Jacob Ridley last updated 22 October 26

Laptop livin' Gaming laptops can be excellent, but you need to shop wisely to avoid making a mistake. Here's my advice.

A Cooler Master HAF II 500 case as I build a PC into it.

Cooler Master HAF II 500 review

By Jacob Ridley Published 22 October 26

Score: 80% Three mighty fans make for a mighty amount of airflow.

Super Flower GPU monitoring OCP dongle.

Here's another gizmo to prevent your graphics card from melting - wouldn't it be nice if 12+4-pin connectors weren't a cause for concern at all?

By Jacob Ridley Published 21 October 26

News I'm thankful for accessories like this, but I wish it wasn't my problem to sort in the first place.

MSI Claw 8 EX AI+

Intel bringing faster upscaler to Valve's Proton - XMX accelerated XeSS could come to SteamOS in boost to future Intel-powered handheld gaming PCs

By Jacob Ridley Published 20 October 26

News Intel giving SteamOS a little more love?

GameSir Nova Lite 2 controller in white colourway on a desk.

GameSir Nova Lite 2 review

By Jacob Ridley Published 19 October 26

Score: 87% The best deal in controllers at $30 or less right now.

Three screenshots from a video showing a man receiving an RTX 5090 as a wedding gift.

Man moved to tears by RTX 5090 on his wedding day - $9000+ price tag brings a tear to my eye too

By Jacob Ridley Published 19 October 26

News Who among us wouldn't feel the same?

The Steam Frame's pancake lenses on display.

Valve is toying with a Steam Frame OLED and some Reddit users are already wondering whether to wait an excruciatingly long time for it even though it may never happen

By Jacob Ridley Published 15 October 26

News Gluttons for punishment.

Valve's new Big Art Mode in the Steam client in Big Picture Mode.

Steam's new Big Art Mode is a lovely visual upgrade for my living room setup

By Jacob Ridley Published 14 October 26

News Big Art Mode is looking fiiiine.

Gigabyte deletes blog post on Intel LGA1700 chips in early 2027, but it can't put the cat back in the bag

By Jacob Ridley Published 13 October 26

News Looks like Gigabyte made an error when it posted about Intel's upcoming LGA1700 chips last week.

Valve's Steam Frame headset design in its CAD file release.

Here come the weird and wonderful mods for the Steam Frame, as Valve drops the full CAD files for free

By Jacob Ridley Published 12 October 26

News I bet someone is already mocking up cat ears for this thing.

Hunt: Showdown with motion blur on and off.

Motion blur is the worst effect in games (confirmed)

By Jacob Ridley Published 9 October 26

Yuck With 7,000 votes cast across our knockout tournament, we now know with near-scientific certainty that motion blur is cheeks.

Intel Core i5 14600K inside a Z790 motherboard.

Intel to release new CPUs on old socket in early 2027 says Gigabyte - memory crisis making DDR4 desirable again

By Jacob Ridley Published 9 October 26

News Likely to offer new options with DDR4 support.

Pimax's new mini PC looks pretty familiar...

All hail the long steam machine, Pimax's new SteamOS-ready mini PC

By Jacob Ridley Published 8 October 26

News It looks like a Steam Machine, and it runs SteamOS, so it must be a steam machine.

Pimax's new VR headset, the Crystal Pro, on a black background.

Pimax says 'I'll have what Valve's having' as it announces new wireless VR headset, foveated streaming, updated controllers, and long Steam Machine

By Jacob Ridley Published 8 October 26

News Imagine a Steam Machine but taller… yep, you got it.

Motion blur and chromatic aberration in games.

The final showdown: Motion blur vs chromatic aberration

By Jacob Ridley Published 5 October 26

Vote now Only one can be crowned the worst graphical effect in games. You decide.

The left and right Steam Frame controllers on the Steam Frame box.

Turns out you can download more battery as Valve's latest update for Steam Frame adds up to 12%

By Jacob Ridley Published 2 October 26

News Some power efficiency improvements for Steam Frame in the 0.4.3 beta update.

A Secretlab Titan Evo and ThunderX3 Solo 360 gaming chair on a green background with a PC Gamer Recommended label on top.

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested loads of gaming chairs and these are my top picks

By Jacob Ridley last updated 2 October 26

Take a seat These gaming chairs have earned our recommendation over hundreds of hours of testing.

Marcus Fenix wearing a bandana in Gears of War: E-Day.

Gears of War: E-Day system requirements require ray tracing-capable graphics card to play, alongside 115 GB of free space on an SSD

By Jacob Ridley Published 1 October 26

News The game's minimum requirements are pretty forgiving.

Phasmophobia and Hunt: Showdown in a split screen template to show different in-game effects.

Motion blur vs film grain - which is worse?

By Jacob Ridley Published 1 October 26

Vote now It's time for round 2 of our worst graphical effects in games tournament.

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra speaks at the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum in Syracuse, New York, on April 25, 2024.

Micron CEO says it'll be tougher to get memory in the next couple of years than it is today, and keeps saying it over and over again

By Jacob Ridley Published 1 October 26

News Alright, I get it already.

The X-Plorer controller that came bundled with Guitar Hero II on Xbox 360.

A love letter to the Guitar Hero X-Plorer Controller

By Jacob Ridley Published 28 September 26

My precious Simply the best.

Marathon and Cyberpunk 2077 with vignette and chromatic aberration effects enabled.

Vignette vs chromatic aberration - which is worse?

By Jacob Ridley Published 28 September 26

Vote now It's time for round 2 of our worst graphical effects in games tournament.

A split screenshot showing Deadlock and Phasmophobia.

It's time to decide the worst graphical effect in games: film grain vs bloom

By Jacob Ridley Published 25 September 26

Vote now Whenever I think of bloom, I think of Wind Waker HD. Anyone else?

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