Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
Best CPU coolers in 2026: I've tested the latest liquid coolers and air coolers to find the very best for your CPU
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: Keep your processor chilled with one of these budget-friendly and capable coolers
Air dried Quiet, reliable and affordable—why not consider a CPU air cooler this year?
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2026: my top picks for blazing fast storage
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Best VR headset in 2026: my top picks for stunning virtual reality experiences
Jack In Immerse yourself in stunning game worlds with the best VR headset.
Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks, just to see which is worth your money.
Best gaming PCs in 2026: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today
Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.
Secure Boot certificates used by anti-cheat software are set to expire in June but new ones are already in the mail
News You shouldn't have to worry about expired certificates if you keep your PC up-to-date.
The best gaming monitors in Australia for 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors offer the perfect mix of resolution, refresh rate, and size to immerse you in your favorite gaming worlds.
Jen-Hsun needs to up his game because we've run the numbers and AMD's CES keynote hit 1.8 mentions of AI per minute—even more than Nvidia
CES 2026 You don't want to know how many times they mentioned gaming.
Who asked for this? PC gamers left wondering after AI takes center stage at CES 2026
CES 2026 AI and fears of further price increases have made for a strange CES for gamers.
CES 2026: all the upcoming releases and announcements a PC gamer should know about
CES 2026 A taste of the year ahead.
AMD and partners confirm Ryzen CPU with dual 3D V-Cache chiplets is coming but gamers are unlikely to see the benefit
CES 2026 Even AMD had its doubts about the utility of such a chip.
AMD may resurrect some older CPUs to help users dodge the worst of the RAM crisis
CES 2026 David McAfee says it's something AMD is "very actively working on" but hasn't confirmed yet.
Intel and Samsung team up to cut OLED power consumption by up to 22% with HDR content
CES 2026 Hey, if it means better battery life for laptops, I'm in.
Be Quiet! keeps the 'consumer' in CES with new PC components including a dashing new Dark Rock 6 cooler
CES 2026 Be Quiet! has its eyes on the prize.
The latest ROG Zephyrus gaming laptop sports two screens and a unique way to play local co-op
CES 2026 I'm debating how long it'd take for the novelty to wear off.
The names of some of the most popular SSDs are changing so their new owner Sandisk gets the glory
News Bye, bye, WD Black.
Forget what you heard, there's plenty of PC hardware to be excited about in 2026
Coming up... RAM, Shmam. These are things to get genuinely excited about this year.
I know I'll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn't ask for more money
Gear of the Year Let's give it up for affordable all-in-one liquid coolers.
I almost learned something in RV There Yet? but I was too busy smoking cigarettes and driving over big rocks
🏆 Best played with friends. And cigs.
This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users
News Random IOPS could increase by up to 80% for servers, says Microsoft.
Goodbye text fringing: LG's new RGB Stripe panel might solve one of the last remaining issues with OLED gaming monitors
News And it's fast at 240 Hz.
