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.
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News Hopefully it's a currency/market quirk.

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News Apparently the database is acting a bit like a "librarian" and not doing the actual compute.

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News AI and toilet paper: the joke writes itself, doesn't it?

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News It's easy enough to install, so worth a try, I'd say.

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News Probably won't even run Crysis.

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News Investigation of the "draining incident of Oct 9th" is ongoing.

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Deal An RTX 5070 Ti and Ryzen 7 9800X3D will not leave you wanting, either.

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Prime Day 2026 From budget builds all the way to top-end behemoths, here are the best Prime Day discounts on gaming rigs.

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Prime Day $2,800 is a great price for such a genuinely high-end build.

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I'm not sure niche brands would be able to change the industry like this.

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News A true phantom pooper.

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Wobble The keyboard itself is $230, though, so not exactly cheap.

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This means war Make your vote count.

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AI, sloppify this It works pretty well as a little manual recorder and editor.

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Rapid Do inductive clicks really help lower reaction time?

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GOML Get on my level.

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Teeny Peecees Searching for a new super-compact gaming machine? Look no further.

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

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

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Score: 89% SteelSeries is back, baby.

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Deals Not too bad for the new normal of memory shortage pricing.

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

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