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.
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News Likely to offer new options with DDR4 support.

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

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

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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.

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This means war Make your vote count.

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

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News Alright, I get it already.

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My precious Simply the best.

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

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Vote now Whenever I think of bloom, I think of Wind Waker HD. Anyone else?

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Vote now Let's pretend we don't already know the outcome of this one.

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Breakdown I got too nervous to fully take apart my Steam Frame, so boy am I glad iFixit's just shown me how.

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News Lightweight glasses with a pocket-size compute puck, micro-OLED displays, Snapdragon XR2 Gen 3 chip; however, just a 70-degree FOV and no controllers included.

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Wrong 'uns There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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FOREVER QUEST I was never a good rogue.

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Vote now Don't let my historic dislike of chromatic aberration sway you.
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