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Ridge is ideal for living-room and TV setups, student halls, compact bedrooms, campervans, truck cabins, boats, LAN parties and small desks.

Its slim Fractal Ridge chassis gives you a full Windows gaming PC in a footprint much closer to a console than a conventional tower.

• High-frame-rate 1080p esports gaming
• 1440p gaming at high and ultra settings
• 4K gaming in esports and lighter competitive titles
• Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
• Modern AAA gaming with appropriate settings

Ridge is designed for proper dedicated-GPU gaming, from competitive esports titles through to demanding AAA games. In our own testing, Cyberpunk 2077 has run at around 55–60 FPS at 1440p with Ray Tracing Ultra and quality upscaling enabled.

Every Ridge is individually assembled, configured and stress-tested. Cooling and fan curves are tuned for strong sustained performance, controlled temperatures and quiet operation.

Ridge is aimed at people who want the performance and flexibility of a desktop gaming PC without making a conventional tower the centre of the room. Its slim enclosure works particularly well beside a television, on a compact desk or in a carefully planned small-space setup.

Because it uses dedicated Radeon graphics, Ridge is the stronger Console Forge option when modern AAA games, higher visual settings, ray tracing or 1440p performance matter more than achieving the smallest possible footprint.

It is still a desktop PC rather than a portable laptop: Ridge needs mains power, a display and clear airflow around the enclosure. In return, it uses standard PC hardware wherever the compact chassis allows, making future servicing, storage changes and component replacement more practical than on many sealed gaming devices.

For very tight spaces and lighter gaming, see the Console Forge Mini.

Every Ridge runs Windows 11, so Steam, Game Pass, third-party launchers, mods, emulators and normal desktop applications remain available. Steam Big Picture can provide a controller-led interface when the system is used from a sofa, while normal Windows remains underneath whenever it is needed.

This makes Ridge useful for players who like the simplicity of a console-style living-room setup but do not want to give up the broader PC library or the ability to change hardware later.

Ridge is individually assembled and tested as a complete machine rather than treated as a collection of compatible parts. Compact systems are sensitive to airflow, fan behaviour and component placement, so testing is carried out in the finished enclosure.

Read our guide to using a compact gaming PC with a TV, or compare the range on our compact gaming PCs UK page.

A gaming laptop is the better choice when you need a built-in screen, keyboard and battery or expect to carry the computer frequently. Ridge makes more sense when the machine will normally stay connected to a TV or monitor and you want desktop components in a much smaller enclosure than a normal tower.

That distinction matters in student rooms, living rooms and other limited spaces: compact does not have to mean mobile. If you are deciding between the two formats, see our compact gaming PC vs gaming laptop comparison.