Jacob Fox

Jacob Fox

Hardware Writer

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

A shot of the Logitech G Play 2026 tournament Jacob Fox attended in Warsaw.
An ode to the loveable, horrible, wonderful Counter-Strike community and my first tournament experience

By Jacob Fox Published

*expletive* My first time seeing a CS2 tournament in-person was wonderful.

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A SteelSeries Sensei Pro and Rival Pro gaming mouse.
No USB connectivity? Like, at all? It's a good job SteelSeries' new gaming mice are two of the best I've felt under my fingertips

By Jacob Fox Published

News The SteelSeries Sensei Pro and Rival Pro are two of the best rodents I've held.

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A Steelseries Rival Pro gaming mouse.
SteelSeries Rival Pro gaming mouse review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 89% SteelSeries is back, baby.

Score: 89%
Jacob Fox talking to CS2 pro player yxngstxr.
A pro CS2 player told me he ditched his Superstrike gaming mouse for the older Superlight 2 because it was 'inconsistent'

By Jacob Fox Published

News That's the same loveable potato shape, though, in the Superlight.

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Jacob Fox talking to pro CS2 player yxngstxr.
Speaking to pro Counter-Strike players convinced me to finally increase my mouse's polling rate, but not all the way to 8K

By Jacob Fox Published

News Maybe *this* will be what keeps me at FaceIt level 8...

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A white Logitech Blue Yeti 2 gaming mic.
I found a use of AI that doesn't make me cringe and shudder, and it's in the mic everyone's waited over a decade for

By Jacob Fox Published

News Meet the Yeti 2.

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A Logitech G Pro X2 Rapid keyboard, G Pro X Control mouse pad, and G Pro X3 Superstrike gaming mouse on a desk.
I thought from Logitech's new Pro products I'd be most excited about the Superstrike, but after using them it's actually the keyboard and mouse pad that have me grinning

By Jacob Fox Published

News There's a new headset, too.

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A Logitech G Pro X3 Superstrike gaming mouse on a wooden desk.
Sorry early adopters, Logitech is releasing an improved Superstrike making the original all but obsolete just months after launch

By Jacob Fox Published

Superstruck While the new one is a great mouse, it's what the first should have been.

Superstruck
A Counter-Strike 2 tournament at Logitech G Play 2026, showing the LED bomb timer.
Esports tournaments do it better in person

By Jacob Fox Published

News Lighting can make all the difference.

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A shot of the crowd and screens and stage of the CS2 tournament at Logitech G Play 2026, Warsaw, Poland.
Vindicated: after speaking to some pro Counter-Strike players I'm sure I was right when I said 360 Hz is the sweet spot for competitive FPS

By Jacob Fox Published

News The two CS2 players I spoke to seem to agree.

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The CAIM1 anti-AI camera, with a Noctua fan inside.
I just learned there's a camera that proves its photos are taken by a human, and Noctua makes the fan inside it

By Jacob Fox Published

News And now you know, too. You're welcome.

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A screenshot of a video posted by Andy Nguyen on X, showing a Sony PS5 Slim running Ubuntu OS and GTA 5 Enhanced
The lead developer of the PS5 Linux project has abandoned ship: 'It is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand'

By Jacob Fox Published

News The project, apparently, is "all down the sink."

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Asus Prime RX 9070 XT graphics card
The leakers disagree, but we might just get one AMD-shaped mid-range GPU through all of 2027

By Jacob Fox Published

News 2027 could look sparse for GPUs.

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Intel headquarters sign in Santa Clara, California. On the left: On the right: SK Hynix Semiconductor Inc. logo, displayed at the company's plant during a media tour organized by Korea Industrial Complex Corp.
Looks like SK hynix wants to make memory chips on US soil and it could work with Intel to do it

By Jacob Fox Published

News Or so the rumour mill says.

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A screenshot of a lip-syncing robot from a YouTube video
No, AI, you are not human: Microsoft's code of practice for artificial intelligence actually gives me some hope for the industry

By Jacob Fox Published

News A fool's hope, perhaps.

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PC Gamer's own RTX 5080 FE with fading serial number and other label info on the PCIe bracket.
Serial numbers on RTX Founders Edition graphics cards, including PC Gamer's very own, are fading and apparently it's causing a problem with RMA requests

By Jacob Fox Published

News If true, that could make for some expensive paperweights.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the phone with President Trump on the All-In Podcast.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump he agrees the AI doomsayers are perpetrating a hoax: 'you saw through all of that'

By Jacob Fox Published

News On slowing down AI, the CEO says Nvidia is "not going to let that happen."

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Thermal Grizzly copper plate
Someone made a copper gaming PC Frankensteined out of an old blowtorch and other assorted parts and is 'just going to let it tarnish over time'

By Jacob Fox Published

News It lives!

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A mini fan cube by Corsair, the 3D printable files for which are at Printables.
'No fuss, no greater meaning, only fans': Corsair shares 3D print files for its April Fools mini fan cube

By Jacob Fox Published

News Need I say more?

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Asus TUF A14 (2025) gaming laptop with RTX 5060 GPU
PSA: Keep social media trends away from your laptops, unless you want broken hinges

By Jacob Fox Published

News One Redditor found this out the hard way.

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A Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike's mouse click speed being tested on a machine by Finalmouse.
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."

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Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks at the Nvidia GTC event on the sidelines of Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 1, 2026.
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.

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A Corsair TC80 gaming chair in a room next to a gaming PC, desk, and guitar.
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.

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TecLab measuring the amps and voltage of an RTX 5090 running on 8-pin cables via a mod.
'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.

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A screenshot from Microsoft showing the new Windows Recovery Environment option to use 'cloud rebuilt' to reset your Windows 11 PC.
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.

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