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

Finalmouse claims its mouse has the absolute fastest click, quicker than the Logitech Superstrike and Razer Viper V4 Pro
By Jacob Fox Published
News "The fastest button input we've measured in a consumer electronic device."

Nvidia is reportedly being investigated by the DOJ over its biggest ever deal, a $20 billion non-exclusive agreement with Groq
By Jacob Fox Published
News Apparently the deal might have been structured to avoid the usual automatic scrutiny.

Corsair's new de-gamefied gaming chair is actually much more affordable than I thought
By Jacob Fox Published
News The Corsair TC80 is cheaper than our best budget pick.

'Where is Nvidia? Call Nvidia, guys': Meltgate be damned, modders discover RTX 5090 can use 8-pin connectors after all
By Jacob Fox Published
News The connectors seem to run fine above spec.

No more USB installation: Windows 11 Insiders now able to fully reset their system via cloud download even when the OS won't boot
By Jacob Fox Published
News It's called 'cloud rebuild' in the Windows Recovery Environment.

Switzerland trials ditching Microsoft and using free and open-source software, available for 'around 3,000 employees' from the end of 2027
By Jacob Fox Published
News The European country joins some others in moving away from Microsoft 365.

Our absolute favourite gaming keyboard, the Wooting 80HE, is getting a BIG KNOB, improved switches, and more
By Jacob Fox Published
News This could become the new best gaming keyboard.

Chinese memory makers have reportedly stocked up on enough western DUV machines for the next three years of expansion
By Jacob Fox Published
News More chips!

SteelSeries throws everything but the kitchen sink in the feature list of its Aeon Pro controller
By Jacob Fox Published
News It can seamlessly switch between Xbox and PC, but is very expensive.

Big chipmakers are already committed to using ASML's next-generation production technology by as soon as 2028
By Jacob Fox Published
News High NA EUV and even 12-inch photomasks.

AMD update fixes Apex Legends crashes with RX 9070 XT GPUs
By Jacob Fox Last updated
News You have to install the update manually.

Oops, looks like the Logitech X3 Superstrike has leaked on Amazon and the rapid trigger gaming mouse will have +50% battery life
By Jacob Fox Published
News I don't think this was meant to be shown so early.

I've spent four months testing control pads in Counter-Strike and I've finally settled on my fave
By Jacob Fox Published
Stopping power Tactical FPS players will want to check this out.

MSI Crosshair 16 Max HX E2W review
By Jacob Fox Published
Score: 69% Great mid-range performance, but most certainly at a cost.

I've checked gaming PC deals every week for two years and I'm not exaggerating when I say there isn't a single well-priced PC left
By Jacob Fox Published
Doom 'n' gloom Even AMD builds are now depressing to look at.

MSI Stealth 16 AI+ B3W review
By Jacob Fox Published
Score: 80% Hella nice, but hella expensive. Thanks, 2026.

OLED gaming monitors have finally gotten so good that a Counter-Strike 2 tournament is using one
By Jacob Fox Published
News The Asus ROG Swift OLED PG259QWS Ace is the first OLED to make it into a CS2 Major.

Both AMD and Intel's desktop CPU sales are falling off a cliff but Ryzen is falling a little slower
By Jacob Fox Published
News Desktop processors aren't selling as well as they were, I wonder why.

Best gaming PCs in 2026: We've tested the best current-gen gaming PCs and these are our picks
By Dave James, Jacob Fox Last updated
Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.

The new Framework 12 laptop's secret weapon is its battery life courtesy of Intel's Wildcat Lake
By Jacob Fox Published
News Plus some extra goodies like a backlit keyboard.

OpenAI says it'd be a shame if something were to happen to your servers like what happened to Hugging Face, better use our AI models to protect yourself
By Jacob Fox Published
News Call 1-800-ChatGPT in case of cyber emergency?

Microsoft is finally letting us turn the Windows 11 right-click context menu into something more like Windows 10
By Jacob Fox Published
News All these years later and I still haven't adjusted. Oh, and there are File Explorer improvements, too.

Chinese RAM hits 9000 MT/s and even matches the speed and latency of the memory in our western gaming PCs
By Jacob Fox Published
News DDR5-6000 with CL 28 or 30 sounds about right to me.
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