Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
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.
Best SSD deals for gaming today
deals Cheap and speedy NVMe drives to boost your gaming PC's capacity and lower those load times.
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.
Micron says memory shortages will persist beyond 2026 but 'more memory is essential' for the 'AI experience'
News *Collective groaning noise*
Meta puts third-party VR headsets using Horizon OS on indefinite pause 'to focus on building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market'
News There goes that, then.
Arctic's new MX-7 thermal paste looks seriously good and I'm already regretting buying a ginormous tube of MX-4
News There's a new paste in town.
I've tested PhysX now that it's sorta supported on the RTX 50 series and I'm more convinced than ever it's a feature worth fighting for
Physexcellent PhysX matters, ya know.
Crypto boss sentenced to 15 years over 'epic, generational scale' fraud that lost over 40 billion dollars
News A so-called stablecoin collapsed back in 2022.
Oracle will shop around for AI chips after adopting a policy of 'chip neutrality'… but of course it'll still buy the latest Nvidia GPUs
News AMD sales team, assemble!
Best gaming PC builds: budget, mid-range and high-end recommendations
DIY Component prices are rising, but it's still possible to put together a great DIY build for less than many prebuilts.
Google is under investigation in the EU to find out whether it imposes unfair terms on content creators for AI
News We'll have a look, course we'll have a look.
Cyber Week 2025 gaming chair deals
Cyber Week Rolling through Cyber Week and the gaming chair deals beyond...
Five things I want you to think about before you buy your first gaming laptop
Laptop livin' Gaming laptops can be excellent, but you need to shop wisely to avoid making a mistake. Here's my advice.
iFixit makes the best PC building toolkit in town and the whole lot is down to $60 for Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday I bought mine many years ago and it's still flawless.
I build multiple PCs a month and these are the best Cyber Monday deals on components for your next gaming PC
Live Cases, motherboards, PSUs, coolers... I'll find you a good deal on anything except RAM.
This $520 RX 9070 16 GB is the only Cyber Monday graphics card deal I'm into right now
Cyber Monday $80 cheaper than the XT.
I tried to build a high-end AMD gaming PC out of Cyber Monday deals but RAM prices make prebuilts better value for money
Cyber Monday I tallied the total cost and compared to current gaming PC deals and didn't like what I saw.
I paid more for my Samsung OLED than this Cyber Monday TV deal and it's still the best thing I've done for my living room gaming setup
Cyber Monday Am I wasting the excellence of OLED on only playing Clone Hero and YARG? Nope, it's been well worth it.
Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards
Pixel Pushers I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.
Looking to save some cash? Here are all the best deals for a budget PC gaming setup this Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday You don't have to go overboard and spend lots of cash to score some great hardware right now.
I've asked Santa for this electric screwdriver, currently on sale for Cyber Monday, to look as cool as the people building PCs on TikTok
Cyber Monday Up to 40% off.
