
Jacob Fox
Jacob got his hands on a gaming PC for the first time when he was about 12 years old. He swiftly realised the local PC repair store had ripped him off with his build and vowed never to let another soul build his rig again. With this vow, Jacob the hardware junkie was born. Since then, Jacob's led a double-life as part-hardware geek, part-philosophy nerd, first working as a Hardware Writer for PCGamesN in 2020, then working towards a PhD in Philosophy for a few years while freelancing on the side for sites such as TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and yours truly, PC Gamer. Eventually, he gave up the ruthless mercenary life to join the world's #1 PC Gaming site full-time. It's definitely not an ego thing, he assures us.
Latest articles by Jacob Fox

I got a look at the first AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme handheld, and no, that's not an ROG Ally you're looking at, it's the MSI Claw A8
By Jacob Fox published
News Jutty, I like it.

'This is the Ally 2, 100%': Asus says the ROG Xbox Ally is a bona fide successor to the first two handhelds, but the originals will still get new Xbox features
By Jacob Fox published
News Out with the old, in with the new.

I just got my hands on the ROG Xbox Ally and can confirm the sheer comfort is worth that peculiar grip design
By Jacob Fox published
News And the whole Windows lite thing seems alright, too.

Call that ideal GPU physique? Nah, the 800 W 30th anniversary Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 is ideal GPU physique
By Jacob Fox last updated
News Is this a sleeper GPU, then? Retro but hella powerful.

Asus just grabbed the fastest OLED crown with this 540/720 Hz dual mode beast of a monitor
By Jacob Fox published
News Asus ain't playing.

Asus' new monitor brings tandem OLED into the fray and promises brighter panels with a whopping 60% increased lifespan
By Jacob Fox published
News Bye bye burn-in?

Nvidia DLSS Override is getting a global toggle, allowing you to easily force Multi Frame Gen and transformer upscaling across all regular FG and DLSS games
By Jacob Fox published
News We're also getting a frame gen override stat in the stats overlay.

Nvidia announces the 'biggest launch in GeForce Now RTX history': RTX 5080 performance, local-style installs, better game streaming quality, and more
By Jacob Fox published
News The company is aiming to make GeForce Now streaming match local gaming.

SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 Wireless review
By Jacob Fox last updated
Score: 66% Great battery life isn't enough to turn my opinion here.

This is not an Xbox 360, it's a gaming PC in disguise
By Jacob Fox published
News Featuring an RTX 40 card and X3D chip, not bad at all.

Razer claims optical gaming keyboards are more precise than Hall effect ones because magnets are 'hard to control'
By Jacob Fox published
News I struggle to tell the difference myself.

Windows on Arm gamers will be able to download Xbox app games locally but cloud gaming might still be a better option
By Jacob Fox published
News Getting ready for those Nvidia Arm chips?

'You've got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI': Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming
By Jacob Fox published
News And maybe we're all in the mind of another AI, howaboutthat?

Between pained cries, the YouTuber who made this 'neuromuscular aim assist' that shocks his muscles for fast Counter-Strike 2 reactions insists it's 'not cheats'
By Jacob Fox published
News Has science finally gone too far?

The best gaming headsets in Australia for 2025
By Dave James last updated
Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.

The first RX 9060 benchmarks show the non-XT AMD GPU going toe to toe with the RTX 5060
By Jacob Fox published
News All that's left is to make the new GPU actually available. Pretty please?

'I don't know what it means to have a Manhattan Project for AI': Nuclear war experts remind us of the frightening risks of our artificial intelligence controlling our nukes
By Jacob Fox published
News These are just risks from known unknowns, what about unknown unknowns?

After saying he should resign 'immediately', President Trump changes his mind about Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and calls his 'success and rise' an 'amazing story', looks forward to fixes for Intel's foundry
By Jacob Fox published
News You're fired. You're hired.

Oh cool, we've got screens on SSD coolers now. For reals. I wonder what they'll slap one on next
By Jacob Fox published
News I vote the motherboard backplate.

The Steam performance overlay will finally show CPU temps but it will require kernel access to do so
By Jacob Fox published
News You can disable it if you want, though.

Best wireless gaming headsets in 2025: the top cans I'd buy myself
By Dave James last updated
Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.

Asus TUF A14 (2025) gaming laptop review
By Jacob Fox published
Score: 89% Surprisingly great performance from this sleek 14-inch machine.

The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 chip in the laptop I've been testing just scored over 1,000,000 in Cinebench, breaking space and time and sending me whirling around my room like a nut in a blender
By Jacob Fox published
News I'm typing this from the astral plane.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.