
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

It's probably time to update 7-Zip as the app has just been patched to fix a pretty big vulnerability
By Jacob Fox Published
News It will need to be manually updated to version 26.02 or later.

Acer's Predator Atlas 8 pricing puts the nail in the handheld coffin for me: it is now a luxury market
By Jacob Fox Published
News Just as predicted.

Ex-TSMC manager first to be indicted under National Security Act for allegedly attempting to leak core Taiwanese chipmaking technologies to China
By Jacob Fox Published
News They could face up to seven years in prison.

Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter
By Jacob Fox Published
News The company is, however, 'building more' controls.

If you're looking for ideas on how to mod your RTX 4060, maybe remove its fans and slap a ridiculously big heatsink on it like this person did
By Jacob Fox Published
News Or don't, I can't tell you want to do.

'There are limits to how much prices can be raised' says SK hynix chairman about memory crisis but I'm not sure the market will care
By Jacob Fox Published
News Will more supply be enough?

Hot swappable mouse batteries might be the hot new trend as it looks like Wallhack's first ever mouse will have them
By Jacob Fox Published
News The company's first gaming mouse looks pretty lush.

Glass mouse pads haven't won me over but gamer sleeves are a different story
By Jacob Fox Published
Mock me if you must. My gamer sleeve and I aren't listening.

I think the latest record-breaking Windows 11 update messed up my monitor
By Jacob Fox Published
News The morning after the update, its 400 Hz capabilities were no more.

Best mini PCs in 2026: The best compact computers for gaming
By Al Bickham, Jacob Fox Last updated
Teeny Peecees Searching for a new super-compact gaming machine? Look no further.

Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses
By Jacob Ridley Last updated
Portable PC PC gaming is officially portable now, and these handheld gaming PCs are the best around.

The company that makes all the West's chipmaking machines says it's selling more than it expected thanks to 'very strong momentum in both DRAM and advanced logic'
By Jacob Fox Published
News It's all a race to catch up with astronomical demand.

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.

Against a backdrop of advancing Chinese production, TSMC announces another $100 billion worth of chipmaking will be invested in the US
By Jacob Fox Published
News This, after a strong quarter.

DRAM demand predicted to outstrip supply by 28.7 exabytes in 2030, which is almost as much as the actual DRAM in the world right now
By Jacob Fox Published
News More to come? Joy.

'Worse than our expectations': IBM's shares drop 25% after CEO says it hasn't adapted quickly enough to AI industry changes
By Jacob Fox Published
News That's a steep drop.

New changes to Windows 11 Start menu and search look genuinely exciting and thank the heavens that we'll be able to disable web results
By Jacob Fox Published
News Keep going in this direction, please, Microsoft.

So THIS is why component makers have started validating their products for Chinese memory
By Jacob Fox Published
News CXMT is estimated to essentially match Micron in terms of DRAM manufacturing capabilities this year.

We might see a new Logitech Superstrike this September, just a few months after the world's first proper analogue mouse launched
By Jacob Fox Published
News Apparently no new sensor, though.

AI did a surprisingly good job with designing a rack for three Framework mainboards
By Jacob Fox Published
News Great, I'll take one. With the Framework mainboards, of course.

More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x
By Jacob Fox Published
News Not only that, but Ray Regeneration and Neural Radiance Caching overrides.

KTC 25M1 400 Hz gaming monitor review
By Jacob Fox Published
Score: 89% Smooth, snappy, and surprisingly well-priced for a high refresh panel.

It looks like Samsung is taking a leaf out of Nvidia's book and making a proper PC processor
By Jacob Fox Published
News If 2026 is the year of Linux, could 2027 be the year of Windows on Arm?
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