
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 (result pending a patiently awaited viva exam) 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

Nvidia says there's 'not a whole lot we can do about tariffs' should Trump nix the exemption around RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards
By Jacob Fox published
News But really, will we see these cards at MSRP in the wild anyway?

EarFun Air Pro 4 earbuds review
By Jacob Fox published
Fun buds You can't have it all for under $100, but the Air Pro 4 earbuds show you can get quite close.

Looks like 8 GB and 16 GB versions of the RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti are fast approaching, so *please* can we have some affordable graphics cards for a change
By Jacob Fox published
News You know, cards that actually stay near MSRP.

Valve Deckard, a long-rumoured standalone VR headset, might not be too far off if these leaked shipping manifests are legit
By Jacob Fox published
News A standalone HMD from Valve might be just what the VR market needs.

AMD muddies the laptop CPU waters again with a Zen 4 refresh. So, where are our actual next-gen Zen 5 chips?
By Jacob Fox published
News Pretty much identical to previous-gen, but should pair nicely with high-end RTX 50-series GPUs.

TSMC might have to fork over $1 billion to the US for allegedly breaking export rules after one of its chips was found in a Huawei processor
By Jacob Fox published
News $1 billion here, $1 billion there, who's counting?

If awful RTX 50-series prices aren't enough to get you consider an RTX 40-series card, maybe this dinky single-fan RTX 4070 will be
By Jacob Fox published
News Bonus: It might not require you to remortgage your home, either.

Holy smokes, something that might actually be useful is coming to Copilot on Windows
By Jacob Fox published
News Did I just say 'holy smokes'?

Trump gave global chipmaking leader TSMC an offer it could not refuse: 'All I did is say if you don't build your plant here you're gonna pay a big tax... 25, maybe 50, maybe 75, maybe 100%'
By Jacob Fox published
News More stick than carrot.

Best capture cards for PC gaming in 2025: whether it's streaming, recording, 1080p or the big 4K, these cards have you covered
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Broadcast Show off your greatest gaming moments with the best capture cards.

'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years
By Jacob Fox published
News Coding onto paper and punch cards.

Fear not, potato gamers, the RuneScape Dragonwilds system requirements are pretty light and hallelujah for a new UE5 game that doesn't require ray tracing
By Jacob Fox published
News Just 25 GB of storage is required, too.

Companies are selling cheap faux leather 'Jensen Huang' jackets and some of the listings are hilarious
By Jacob Fox published
News When the edifice of consumerism crumbles, we will stand and smile.

Best external SSDs for gaming in 2025: These are the portable drives I'd use for backups, game libraries, and travel storage
By Jacob Fox last updated
SSDs to go Bag one of the best USB Type-C SSDs for game storage on a PC or console.

Logitech G PowerPlay 2 review
By Jacob Fox published
Lotta dosh A downgrade over the first version in almost every way.

Getting Half-Life 2 to work on 8 MB of VRAM means turning it into an eerily befitting voidscape: 'there were absolutely no effects left'
By Jacob Fox published
News The Anti-Mass Spectrometer's gone amok again, hasn't it.

'There might be a party. I wasn't invited,' says Jensen Huang of the rumoured TSMC proposal to join forces and run Intel's chip fabs
By Jacob Fox published
News Throwing doubt on rumours of TSMC's multi-company proposal.

Nvidia confirms 'open issue' with Varjo Aero VR headsets and RTX 50-series graphics cards after affected users ask for help
By Jacob Fox published
News Hopefully a fix is in the works.

Nvidia has cut the MSRP of RTX 50-series FE cards in the UK and Europe and that means... not a whole lot right now
By Jacob Fox published
News Talk to me when these numbers actually refer to something.

Microsoft is finally rolling out its controller-friendly virtual keyboard for a better Windows handheld gaming PC experience
By Jacob Fox published
News It's part of the latest Insider Preview build, but soon to roll out fully.

Remember those fiddly screw-locks for VGA and DVI-D? Bet you didn't know USB-C also has them
By Jacob Fox published
News What is dead may never die.

This Redditor rocked up to Best Buy and bought an RTX 4060 gaming PC for cheaper than its extended warranty, saving $1,195 and their friend from buying a console
By Jacob Fox published
News That's the sound of a thousand "congratulations" through gritted teeth.

Lenovo Legion Go S (Windows) review
By Jacob Fox published
Better... but worse?... Gorgeous and comfortable, this handheld has unfortunately had its internals stripped back.
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