
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

AMD and Intel teaming up to stick it to Arm has led to 'significant progress' improving x86 after just a year
By Jacob Fox published
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'
By Jacob Fox published
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
By Jacob Fox published
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
By Jacob Fox published
News Rockets are cool, AI slop games are not.

Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
By Dave James last updated
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.

Masters of timing, Microsoft: Just one day from Windows 10 EOL and apparently the official Media Creation Tool isn't working
By Jacob Fox published
News Just use Rufus.

'Now you've got something that's a little bit easier and less expensive and can go a little bit faster': Intel's lead x86 CPU architect explains why it's not bringing Hyper-Threading back for Panther Lake
By Jacob Fox published
News You just don't need it when you have hybrid cores.

Thank you Galax for this skinny RTX 5060 Ti because there's something surprisingly alluring about single-slot graphics cards
By Jacob Fox published
News In the year of the chonk, too.

Valve's long-awaited standalone VR headset, Deckard, could be here before year's end according to word on the street from China
By Jacob Fox published
News It's been 84 ye- sorry, three years.

Apparently optical gaming mice can spy on what we're saying and video games are an 'ideal target'
By Jacob Fox published
News Maybe it's time to turn that polling rate down again.

Battlefield 6 ditching ray tracing seems to have paid off because the latest system requirements say 4K at 240 Hz is possible
By Jacob Fox published
News You'll need a beefy rig, but that it's possible at all is fantastic.

The Windows 10 era is over and with it, the last time I felt my PC was truly my own
By Jacob Fox published
End of an era Oh to be back in 2015.

There's a new king of lightweight gaming mice and I'll 1v1 anyone who disses the ultralight market
By Jacob Fox published
Float on Meet me at T Spawn.

Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
By Dave James last updated
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
By Dave James last updated
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.

Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Wireless gaming mouse review
By Jacob Fox published
Score: 92% A mouse that can truly lay claim to the 'ultralight' title.

Glorious Model O3 Wireless review
By Jacob Fox published
Score: 79% A mouse with genuine battery life innovation.

Jensen Huang says Intel and Nvidia 'have been discussing and architecting solutions now for coming up to a year' and 'kept it really quiet'
By Jacob Fox published
News Kept schtum on that one, huh?

End of Windows 10 support might mean a sizeable shrink in the entry-level PC gaming market according to new research
By Jacob Fox published
News I wonder how much bypassing TPM requirements will affect this.

Eye-scanning Orb maker says 'there is no world where we are not going to have' biometrics to check we're human and keep games bot-free
By Jacob Fox published
*Shuts eyes* And with the AI bubble continuing to expand, they might just be right.

Intel says Arc GPUs aren't going anywhere just yet despite the new Nvidia collaboration
By Jacob Fox published
News Whether and how long that will remain the case is a different question.

Asus ROG says it is 'actively investigating' gaming laptop stuttering issues after a user apparently identified a 'cascade of firmware design failures'
By Jacob Fox published
News The Github-hosted analysis doesn't paint a pretty picture.

You can install the new Xbox Full screen experience mode for Windows on handhelds but whether it will work is another question entirely
By Jacob Fox published
News It clearly needs a tad more tinkering before it's ready to roll.
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