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 close-up photo of a pair of Micron and SK Hynix DDR5 DIMMs, showing the memory modules on black/green PCBs
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.

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The IBM-made Gamecube Gekko PowerPC processor
'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.

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A screenshot of a Windows 11 desktop with a search for "disable windows search" in the Start menu.
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.

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A stock photo of a computer motherboard with multiple memory slots filled with DRAM DIMMs for High Performance Computing (HPC)
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.

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A Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike gaming mouse
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.

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Framework 13 Pro laptop
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.

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AMD RX 9070 XT and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards from Asus
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.

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A KTC 25M1 400 Hz gaming monitor.
KTC 25M1 400 Hz gaming monitor review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 89% Smooth, snappy, and surprisingly well-priced for a high refresh panel.

Score: 89%
Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. - stock photo. Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA - August 23, 2022
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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A Logitech G316 X gaming keyboard on a wooden desk.
Logitech G316 X (tactile) gaming keyboard review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 61% Oh what could have been.

Score: 61%
A screenshot of the listing of most-played games on the Epic Games Store, as of January 2024.
Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign

By Jacob Fox Published

News Slides out of Unreal Fest promise "5x faster cold start (average)" and "6.5x faster systray restore to library (average)" as Epic works on making its store suck less.

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ASML EUV machine with internals exposed
The US is worried China could have a top-spec chipmaking machine despite export restrictions, but the machine maker ASML denies it

By Jacob Fox Published

News All I know is you can't hide a 150+ ton EUV machine in MY house.

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Holding a Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse
Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly

By Jacob Fox Published

News 'DPI downshift', they call it.

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Photos from FCC ID 2AES4-1013, teardowns of the left Steam Frame controller from Valve.
We now have teardown pics of the Steam Frame controller and it looks like it could be pretty repairable

By Jacob Fox Published

News It could follow in the Steam Controller's footsteps.

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A close-up photo of a pair of Micron and SK Hynix DDR5 DIMMs, showing the memory modules on black/green PCBs on the left. On the right, Apple CEO Tim Cook wipes a tear during his final Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on June 8, 2026.
'Price increases are unavoidable' says Tim Cook, proving even Apple isn't impervious to the global memory shortage

By Jacob Fox Published

News "We’re willing to use our balance sheet to help be a part of the solution."

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Aristotle (384-322 BC), Classical Greek Philosopher, A student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, Statue of Aristotle at the Athens Academy, Athens, Central Greece, Attica, Europe.
All roads lead to philosophy, as this Wikipedia game proves

By Jacob Fox Published

News It's all footnotes to Plato, just as Whitehead said.

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An Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chip held between two fingers
Intel's 18A-P chipmaking process has started risk production and promises 9% improved CPU performance for the same power

By Jacob Fox Published

News Or 18% less power consumption for the same performance.

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An RTX Spark in-hand on the left, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the right.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we need to 'deal with social norms' surrounding AI but apparently that means 'just go engage it'

By Jacob Fox Published

News Oh, right, of course that's exactly what he has in mind. Use AI, got it.

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PCs on a desk with the Ask PC Gamer icon
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming PC

By Jacob Fox Last updated

New PC Guide I bought my first gaming PC almost two decades ago, and here are the things I've learnt since then that I think you should know.

New PC Guide
A photo of a Team Group MP44 SSD, with its heatspreader label removed, showing the chips on the circuit board
Silicon Motion says 'the retail SSD market has almost disappeared' as NAND shifts towards AI servers and OEMs scoop up the drives that usually sit in our gaming PCs

By Jacob Fox Published

News Yet another day during the RAMpocalypse.

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Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer still - bald man in sunglasses standing in front of an average-sized American pickup truck
One lone legend waiting for GTA 6 to launch has decided to make the game from scratch themselves: 'The goal: beat the real GTA 6 to launch'

By Jacob Fox Published

News Vibe code GTA 6? Sure, hold my beer.

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The Pimax Crystal Super with the Micro-OLED and QLED optical engines.
There are stirrings in the VR industry that much better displays could be in the pipeline

By Jacob Fox Published

News Samsung is apparently leaning more heavily into Micro-OLED.

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A Noctua NL-LC1 AIO liquid cooler at Computex 2026.
Noctua's AIO liquid cooler is here but hooo boy is it expensive

By Jacob Fox Published

News Featuring the best fans and a custom pump cover.

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MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC
It looks like more handhelds will soon be able to run SteamOS if this MSI Claw gameplay test is anything to go by

By Jacob Fox Published

News A new beta lets the OS run on Intel handhelds.

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A screenshot from the Gears of War E-Day gameplay trailer.
Gears of War: E-Day system requirements are here and it might be bad news for GTX 10-series cards and, well, storage in general

By Jacob Fox Published

News 130 GB is a whopper and a half.

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