Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Looks like the AI boom has made DDR4 RAM no better value than DDR5 as storage and memory prices continue to rise
News Lower costs could still make DDR4 worth it in some cases, though.
Xbox president says the next-gen console will be 'very premium' and 'very high-end' which is totally treading on PC gaming's turf
News Imagine if PC gaming becomes the affordable option compared to consoles.
The ROG Xbox Ally X seems surprisingly repairable and upgradeable judging by iFixit's teardown video, which could be good news for stick drift
News And you don't have to settle for 1 TB of storage, either.
Wikipedia says it's getting fewer 'human pageviews' thanks to AI and social media but it's got a plan to deal with it
News Hopefully that plan doesn't include even bigger donation banners.
Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
The first US-made Nvidia Blackwell wafer just came out of TSMC Arizona, but don't get carried away thinking about RTX 50 Supers yet
News Good news, but mass production is likely a way off.
This Redditor is playing Battlefield 6 on an AIO cooler and I can't for the life of me figure out why
News Why not, I suppose.
AWS outage affecting Fortnite, Roblox, Reddit, and many others is close to fixed, with Amazon saying services are showing 'significant signs of recovery'
News Fingers crossed.
People are falling for AI phishing attempts 4.5x more often than human ones but the solutions are the same as ever
News Just tread more carefully.
Battlefield 6 is so well-optimised it's playable on an eight-year-old RX 570 with just 4 GB of VRAM
News Oh, and a GTX 1650 Super, too.
Gigabyte's new gaming laptops come with voice control for performance, fan, and privacy settings, so you can shout at them if they won't pipe down
News Remember to say please and thank you.
EU MEPs agree on recommendation for Europe to 'make full use of its powers' to ban loot boxes for minors and social media for those under 16
News The Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee urged the European Commission to enforce these changes.
If you regret not living through the floppy disk era why not try this 3D printed Linux project that uses the cartridges to launch games
News Pointless? Maybe, but count me in.
Big networking software hack seemingly backed by China poses a 'significant cyber threat targeting federal networks'
News The exfiltrated data relates to networking software used by big companies and government organisations.
These are the last few Windows 10 zero-day security updates you'll see without signing up to extended coverage
News Time to get upgrading.
'Systems that have a secure boot process, in reality, do not': Major backdoors have been discovered in Framework Linux machines and it might just be the tip of the iceberg
News Turns out, allowing direct memory modification is a little risky.
MSI denies selling selling the RTX 5090 in China after pictures surface showing giant pallets of the restricted GPUs in the country
News Smugglers getting busy again?
If anything were to convince me to try out carpentry it would be this gorgeous DIY mini walnut PC case housing an Asus ProArt RTX 5080
News Hold my beer.
AMD and Intel teaming up to stick it to Arm has led to 'significant progress' improving x86 after just a year
News What's bigger, two or one? One. One army, a real army, with one purpose.
'Imagine delivering the smallest supercomputer next to the biggest rocket': Jensen delivers a DGX Spark to Musk at SpaceX facility but some think the Nvidia launch is little more than a 'PR stunt'
News Is this mass production or a limited launch for the mini 'supercomputer'?
Keychron's upcoming fully ceramic keyboard is a strange choice for rapid trigger and 8K polling but it's incredibly shiny so I'll take it
News Set to ship before Christmas.
Elon Musk has been snapping up ex-Nvidia specialists to help make AI world models, which is fine but please keep away from our games
News Rockets are cool, AI slop games are not.
Best gaming desk in 2025: 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.
