
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

Corsair just announced carbon fiber and magnesium alloy versions of my favourite gaming mouse since Logitech's G Pro X Superlight
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 But maybe they shouldn't be called the same name as the original.

If you're disappointed by the lack of gaming talk in Nvidia's CES keynote, fear not because the company might be, umm, bringing back the RTX 3060
By Jacob Fox published
News Although, this could actually signal worse news for PC gamers.

Nvidia looks to further eradicate motion blur with new G-Sync Pulsar improvements for '4x the effective motion clarity'
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 "With Pulsar, you get the motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor as if you're rendering at 1,000 fps."

The deal on this RTX 5070 gaming PC almost made me forget there's a memory shortage and general component pricing crisis right now
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Just $1,300 for a well-rounded RTX 5070 machine.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
By Dave James published
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.

Last year I predicted all three of Valve's announcements so now I reckon I have the ability to speak these 2026 prophecies into reality
By Jacob Fox published
I know the future I predict a near-perfect year for PC gaming hardware, mark my words.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025
By Jacob Fox published
Gear of the year Three rodent contenders, but only one winner for the year.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboard of 2025
By Jacob Fox published
Gear of the year Three fantastic keyboards from this year, but there can only be one winner.

My fave piece of PC gaming tech to launch this year was the softest kind of hardware there is
By Jacob Fox published
Gear of the Year Yes, a humble mouse pad.

2025 might have been the year for Linux gaming, but there's still a way to go until I switch from Windows
By Jacob Fox published
Reluctantly Microsoft Windows, sadly, still offers some things that Linux cannot.

I play new games about once every never, but Killing Floor 3 reeled me in this year because it's basically not a new game
By Jacob Fox published
🏆 If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Ex-ASML workers reverse-engineered state of the art chipmaking machines to get China far closer than previously thought to independence from foreign tech
By Jacob Fox published
News China might really be on the heels of the West, this time.

Goldman Sachs research seems to point towards DRAM and SSD prices spiking next year as memory supply lags behind demand
By Jacob Fox published
News It looks like all things memory will increase in price quarter-over-quarter.

If you want to scrub Windows 11's AI features off the face of the earth some legend has made a tool that does just that
By Jacob Fox published
News Nuke it from orbit.

This RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC seems to have missed the memory crisis memo as it costs less than $900 and has 32 GB of DDR5 RAM
By Jacob Fox published
Deal A diamond in the rough.

This Zotac mini PC has an inventive way of ditching its RTX 5060 Ti's power cables, and no it's not the same as the Asus BTF way
By Jacob Fox published
News Split a PCIe connector in two? Hold my beer.

These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I've ever seen
By Jacob Fox published
News Great for visual learners.

The US gov shut down a $160 million smuggling operation trying to get Nvidia H200 chips into China and also, err, says the GPUs won't be restricted anymore
By Jacob Fox published
News Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

Looks like the Run dialog box is getting a sleek new look on Windows 11
By Jacob Fox published
News I just hope it's just as snappy. And where'd my browse button go?

Two of the best gaming PC deals from Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025 are still live, and surprisingly they're from Alienware
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Two powerful rigs that have somehow stuck around.

Adding yet more needless features, Discord joins the 'wrapped' crew with a yearly stat recap called Checkpoint
By Jacob Fox published
News Can it not?

Cyber Week gaming PC deals 2025: discounts across Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon rigs
By Jacob Fox last updated
Cyber Week The Cyber Week gaming PC deals roll on, so there's still time to pick up a bargain.
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