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 Valorant character on the left and a Riot Games sign on the right.
Riot taunts would-be hackers using physical hardware to cheat: 'congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight'

By Jacob Fox Published

News Vanguard gets a DMA-spanking upgrade.

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A white Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse
Replacing the Viper V4 Pro's skates gave one reviewer some Razer warranty trouble after glass pad sensor issues

By Jacob Fox Published

News The issue is resolved now, but it raises questions over warranty wording.

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A MacBook Neo mod that uses an industrial air blower to cool it.
You can crank wild performance out of a MacBook Neo if only you use a giant industrial air blower and Peltier thermoelectric cooling

By Jacob Fox Published

News A simple sandwich.

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Close-up shot of an RTX 5070's PCIe slot
Another quarter, another quarterly update from Nvidia that doesn't mention gaming

By Jacob Fox Published

News Womp womp, but I suppose what do we expect?

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the left, and an Nvidia building sign on the right.
Nvidia says 'demand for AI infrastructure continues to expand at an unprecedented pace' but after speaking to experts about it, I'm not so sure

By Jacob Fox Published

News The future of the AI industry isn't as certain as Nvidia seems to make out.

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CHONGQING, CHINA - JULY 29: In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE: NET), an American web infrastructure and website security company, with the company's cloud logo visible in the background, on July 29, 2025 in Chongqing, China. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare says Claude Mythos reasoning 'looks like the work of a senior researcher'

By Jacob Fox Published

News Cloudflare has been figuring out how to best use the model.

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A Herman Miller Coyl gaming desk on a grey background.
Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

By Jacob Fox Published

News Just a dash of colour ties it together.

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The Valorant practice range with a superimposed image of a hand on a Zowie EC2-DW gaming mouse.
Valorant gets Anti-Lag 2 but after testing it I don't think users with high-end AMD rigs should crack open the champagne

By Jacob Fox Published

News Lower-end rigs might have more to gain.

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A Zowie EC2-DW gaming mouse in-hand.
Zowie EC2-DW review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 82% The mouse of my dreams, but my dreams are all Counter-Strike, baby.

Score: 82%
An LG UltraGear 25G590B gaming monitor on a red and white background.
LG reveals the world's first native 1,000 Hz 1080p panel but you're gonna need a beast of a rig to make good use of it

By Jacob Fox Published

News It'll be a niche market for this one.

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A CPU and gaming PC next to a map highlighting the strait of Hormuz in Iran
Here's how the Iran war is hitting key supplies for components, according to supply chain experts

By Jacob Fox Published

Supply choke The ripples span wider than you might think.

Supply choke
The XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT on white gravel
AMD reportedly planning a new budget graphics card with a surprising number of cores

By Jacob Fox Published

News Though much lower clocks.

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A Keychron MagOptic hybrid magnetic-optical mouse switch animation still.
Keychron calls this 'the next gen mouse switch' and I believe it: optical and magnetic all-in-one

By Jacob Fox Published

News Rapid trigger or traditional optical clicks: Keychron says why not both?

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An image of Richard Dawkins next to an image of the Claude logo on a phone.
No, Richard Dawkins, AI is bloody well not conscious

By Jacob Fox Published

Biology vs silicon And if you think otherwise, you'd better at least attempt to don your philosophy cap.

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Biology vs silicon
A Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz gaming monitor with Counter-Strike 2 on-screen.
Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 77% Ridiculously fast and prohibitively expensive.

Score: 77%
Screenshots of NordVPN, Windscribe, and Surfshark VPN windows overlapping on top of a pink and purple background.
I spent a full week testing different VPNs and I'm changing my no-VPNs-while-gaming advice

By Jacob Fox Published

Ping or privacy VPN gaming isn't the pointless endeavour I assumed it was.

Ping or privacy
Logitech g305
Everyone's favorite egg-shaped rodent might be getting the Superlight treatment, meaning Logitech could once again snatch the budget gaming mouse crown

By Jacob Fox Published

News It will all depend on that price tag, though.

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Ubuntu's user screen in the settings.
Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'

By Jacob Fox Last updated

News A whole range of Ubuntu sites and services seem to be affected.

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Macro view of the group of computer PC DRAM memory modules circuit board PCB with selective focus effect
'Our demand fulfillment rate is now at a record low' says Samsung as it makes its DRAM 90% more expensive than the previous quarter

By Jacob Fox Published

News High demand, high prices, it's basic economics.

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Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. - stock photo. Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA - August 23, 2022
Samsung says there are 'no supply chain issues to date' from war in the Middle East but the company is making logistical changes

By Jacob Fox Published

News The company has stocked up and is figuring out alternative logistics.

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A photo of a set of Lexar Thor OC DDR5 UDIMMs, resting on top of a motherboard's heatsink
Microsoft predicts memory crisis will affect its revenue as struggling OEMs won't be as liberal with Windows spending

By Jacob Fox Published

News Reaping what it sows in the AI era, perhaps.

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Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO says the company is focused on 'fundamentals' to 'win back fans and strengthen engagement' in Windows 11

By Jacob Fox Published

News The software giant has already made some changes, so let's hope they stick.

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NordVPN, Windscribe, and Surfshark VPN screenshots on top of a blue background with a PC Gamer Recommended label on top.
The best VPN for gaming in 2026: These privacy-protecting virtual networks keep your games lag-free

By Jacob Fox Published

Stealth Mode Prevent DDoS attacks, secure your devices, boost your speed, and get games for bargain prices – all with a gaming VPN. Here are my top picks.

Stealth Mode
A SignalRGB air fryer do-gaming PC.
You've heard of putting your graphics card in the oven, but have you heard of putting your entire gaming PC inside an air fryer

By Jacob Fox Published

News How about putting two in there?

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Side-by-side 3D renders of the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike and Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mice on eloshapes.com.
This web tool now lets you compare gaming mouse shapes in full 3D and let this mouse nerd tell you why that's important

By Jacob Fox Published

News EloShapes gets the feature that nerds like me have been waiting for.

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