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Jacob Ridley

There's no 'Silicon Valley' where Jacob grew up, but part of his home country is known as 'The Valleys' and can therefore it be easily confused for a happening place in the tech world. From there he graduated to professionally break things and then write about it for cash in the city of Bath, UK.

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The best mouse pads for gaming

The best mouse pads for gaming in 2020

By Jacob Ridley

Slick The best mouse pads offer pinpoint control and awesome aesthetics, no matter what surface you prefer.

Death Stranding bundled free with Nvidia RTX GPUs starting today

By Jacob Ridley

News Pick up a brand new graphics card, desktop, or laptop with an RTX graphics card and receive Death Stranding for free.

The best gaming mouse in 2020

The best gaming mouse in 2020

By Jorge Jimenez, Jacob Ridley

Pinpoint There's a best gaming mouse for every game, every budget, and every hand size.

Nvidia's headquarters, Endeavor

Nvidia is worth more than Intel for the first time in history

By Jacob Ridley

News The GPU maker is now worth $251 billion dollars.

Three gaming PCs facing forwards

'Millions of new PC gamers' are turning their home-working PCs into gaming machines

By Jacob Ridley

News There's even been a rush on simulation racing rigs, too.

H.266 video coding format logo

A brand new video coding format is able to reduce data usage by 50%

By Jacob Ridley

News Higher resolution video with less data use.

EPOS Gaming headset brand imagery of person wearing headset

EPOS parts ways with Sennheiser, first gaming headset to drop in October

By Jacob Ridley

News EPOS promises "out of this world gaming audio" is on the way this October.

Atari VCS retro console with controllers

The long-overdue AMD Ryzen-powered Atari VCS console will begin shipping in October

By Jacob Ridley

News It's finally happening!

Intel Core i9 10900K box with gaming PC behind

Intel's squeezing a new enthusiast CPU in between Comet Lake's best

By Jacob Ridley

News There's not much between the new Core i9 10850K and the existing Core i9 10900K, benchmarks suggest.

Apple iPod Classic and Crucial P2 SSD

You can upgrade an Apple iPod Classic with an M.2 SSD fit for a PC

By Jacob Ridley

News Try doing that with a Zune.

Zadak MOAB II PC case with integrated CPU water block

This compact PC case comes with high-end water cooling built-in

By Jacob Ridley

News The Zadak MOAB II is the PC case of the future... or just extremely extra.

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan

The most iconic, game-changing graphics cards ever made

By Jacob Ridley

Grade I GPUs These are the graphics cards that shaped PC gaming over the course of 25 years.

Death Stranding landscape viewpoint image

DLSS 2.0 will make a 4K60 monster out of your RTX 2060 in Death Stranding

By Jacob Ridley

News Every RTX 20-series GPU is capable of 4K at over 60fps, Nvidia claims.

Samsung 870 QVO 1TB SSD front and back

Samsung 870 QVO 1TB SSD review

By Jacob Ridley

4-bit flash Samsung's stoking the QLC NAND flash fire with its second-generation 870 QVO 1TB.

AMD Ryzen CPU

AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs seem to have hit their final form just as the XT chips arrive

By Jacob Ridley

News Rumour has it that desktop AMD Zen 3 processors are nearing their final stages of development.

Crucial P2 NVMe SSD

Crucial P2 500GB PCIe M.2 SSD review

By Jacob Ridley

Mix'n'match A cheap NVMe SSD through and through—but you can't always be sure what you're getting with the Crucial P2.

Jellykey Born of Forest series spacebar keycap depicting a forest scene

This $72 spacebar is actually superb value. Come at me

By Jacob Ridley

Artisan Or we can agree to disagree. Either way, I'm a sucker for hand-crafted artisan keycaps.

Dell XPS Desktop gaming and content creation PC teaser

Dell teases new Desktop XPS gaming PC with Nvidia RTX graphics

By Jacob Ridley

News Could this be the true desktop successor to the highly praised XPS laptop lineup?

Raijintek Morpheus GPU air cooler with dual RGB fans installed

This massive 12-heatpipe air cooler from Raijintek can handle an RTX 2080 Ti

By Jacob Ridley

News The perfect companion for a beefy Noctua air cooler, perhaps?

Cyberpunk 2077's delay means we've got a big decision to make: Nvidia Ampere or Big Navi?

By Jacob Ridley

Cyber-setup AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs are a foregone conclusion, obviously.

Filling a custom-loop PC with fluid

This EKWB custom loop kit reignited my love for building a gaming PC

By Jacob Ridley

Wet work Blood, sweat, and CryoFuel went into building my first ever custom-cooled gaming PC.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Square Enix games return to Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service

By Jacob Ridley

News Square Enix and Nvidia have reached an accord and the publisher's games are returning to the cloud gaming service this week.

AMD "categorically rejects" rumour that Zen 3 has been delayed

By Jacob Ridley

News A report suggests AMD could be pushing back the launch of its Ryzen 4000 CPUs—we disagree, as does AMD.

AMD's new Ryzen 3000 XT chips: same price, slightly faster, and coming July 7

By Jacob Ridley

News The Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT, and Ryzen 5 3600XT are now official.

AMD Ryzen 4000 CPU

AMD Ryzen 4000 – Zen 3 CPU release date, specs, pricing, and performance

By Jacob Ridley

Next-gen Ryzen Here's all we know about AMD Ryzen 4000 desktop gaming CPUs and the Zen 3 architecture.