Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Best mouse pads for gaming in 2025: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on
Slick The best mouse pads offer slick mouse movement and awesome aesthetics, no matter what surface you prefer.
Best external SSD for gaming in 2025: These are the portable drives I'd use for backups, game libraries, and travel storage
SSDs to go Bag one of the best USB Type-C SSDs for game storage on a PC or console.
'This is not unlocking shareholder value, it's a fire sale': Jim Keller weighs in on a possible 'careless' Intel chip and fab spin-off
News Can Intel be made great again?
Microsoft's wacky Majorana 1 chip, powered by an 'entirely new state of matter', could have industrial quantum computing here 'in years, not decades'
News And not a single one of my parallel selves understands a lick of it.
Scuf Valor Pro review
Quality clicks Feature-rich and featuring top-notch quality and ergonomics, it's almost the perfect controller—but not quite.
Cut the cord on your PC gaming setup this Presidents' Day with an excellent wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse combo for almost 50% off the list price
Deal Plenty versatile, too.
If the AMD RX 9070 XT is as beefy as these leaked specs and benchmark makes out, low Nvidia 50-series stocks might not matter
News Nice numbers, now no more delays, please.
10-series and other old GPUs should be able to run Assassin's Creed Shadows says director, and my RTX 3060 Ti sheds a single hopeful tear
News Finally, someone stickin' up for the little guy.
Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance: From Nvidia's latest, past AMD's greatest, to Intel's failing silicon, this is what the game does to PCG's own rigs
We put our own machines through the ringer with the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, to lesser or greater success.
Assassin's Creed Shadows will let you take your pick from the frame gen and upscaling buffet as 'a mix and match approach is possible'
News And I'll take a side of pure raster, please.
New research says ChatGPT likely consumes '10 times less' energy than we initially thought, making it about the same as Google search
News It'd be nice to have some official numbers from OpenAI, though.
Here's Linux running inside a PDF, running inside a browser, running on a Windows PC
News Linux-ception.
Nvidia confirms RTX 50-series laptops can be pre-ordered from February 25 and will be 'available starting March', stock willing
News Portable Multi Frame Gen: sounds great, but will there be the stock for it?
This RTX 5080 gaming PC is $100 cheaper than last week's best RTX 5080 rig, and it's probably also the best way to get your hands on a high-end GPU right now
Deal When the going gets tough for GPUs, consider the full package instead.
If showing off that you actually own an RTX 5090 isn't enough, why not show off that you own a golden one for double rarity points
News Envy? What envy?
Bill Gates laments Pat Gelsinger's failure to save Intel: 'I was hoping for his sake, for the country's sake that he would be successful'
News 'Seriously guys, drop it, we get it already': someone at Intel, probably.
In a first tariff-induced hit against the PC gaming sector, ASRock is talking about increasing costs and moving its graphics card manufacturing away from China
News 10% can cause ripples.
The first RTX 50-series laptops are listed at retailers and dare I say it, is that reasonable pricing I see?
News I'd say $1,900 for an RTX 5070 Ti mobile laptop at launch is pretty reasonable.
AMD's CEO Dr Lisa Su claims 'highest sell-out in many years' for desktop processors and the company is 'catching up with some demand' for gaming CPUs
News It's hard to deny the demand's there, so dish over that sweet stock.
Got the Nvidia 50-series and AMD X3D stock-out blues? Skip the waiting lists with this surprisingly well-priced RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming PC
Deal That's not half bad for a build with a brand new high-end GPU and CPU.
Nvidia's latest 572.16 driver isn't just for the RTX 50-series, as 20, 30 and 40-series cards are also gifted with significant updates
News Free frames? Don't mind if I do.
Where to buy the Nvidia RTX 5090: the top-end GPU just launched and here are all the RTX 5090 retailer listings I can find, though stocks are fast dwindling
Time to buy The RTX 5090 is now live and available for purchase (when in stock), and here are the places to shop for one.
Where to buy the Nvidia RTX 5080: the high-end GPU just launched and stocks are already running low, so here's every RTX 5080 retailer listing I've found so far
Stock up Here are all the retailer listings for the RTX 5080 that I could find, which might just be most of 'em.
