Jacob Ridley
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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News Gluttons for punishment.

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News Big Art Mode is looking fiiiine.

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

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

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

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News Likely to offer new options with DDR4 support.

By Jess Kinghorn Last updated
Deals Add more storage space to your PC for less with one of the deals I've spotted.

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

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

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Deal It's still over MSRP, but it's not as far over MSRP as most other graphics cards right now.

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Prime Day Do you need gift inspiration for a PC gamer in your life but have no idea what to buy them? Here's what our readers liked most.

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Prime Day Here are the best deals I'd recommended over at Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg, Walmart and more.

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Prime Day All of these products have a 25% or greater saving right now.

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Prime Day It's rough out there. The GRE is about as good as it gets.

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Prime Day I really, really like mine.

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

By Dave James Last updated
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.

By Dave James Last updated
Pixel Pushers I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.

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

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

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News The game's minimum requirements are pretty forgiving.

By Fraser Brown Published
This means war Make your vote count.

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