
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

Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
By Dave James last updated
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
By Dave James last updated
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.

Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Wireless gaming mouse review
By Jacob Fox published
Score: 92% A mouse that can truly lay claim to the 'ultralight' title.

Glorious Model O3 Wireless review
By Jacob Fox published
Score: 79% A mouse with genuine battery life innovation.

For $1,000 off, this Cooler Master gaming PC is about as cheap as I've seen such a solid RTX 5080 build
By Jacob Fox published
Deal There's no skimping on any component here, although an X3D CPU would be nice.

Jensen Huang says Intel and Nvidia 'have been discussing and architecting solutions now for coming up to a year' and 'kept it really quiet'
By Jacob Fox published
News Kept schtum on that one, huh?

End of Windows 10 support might mean a sizeable shrink in the entry-level PC gaming market according to new research
By Jacob Fox published
News I wonder how much bypassing TPM requirements will affect this.

Eye-scanning Orb maker says 'there is no world where we are not going to have' biometrics to check we're human and keep games bot-free
By Jacob Fox published
*Shuts eyes* And with the AI bubble continuing to expand, they might just be right.

Intel says Arc GPUs aren't going anywhere just yet despite the new Nvidia collaboration
By Jacob Fox published
News Whether and how long that will remain the case is a different question.

Asus ROG says it is 'actively investigating' gaming laptop stuttering issues after a user apparently identified a 'cascade of firmware design failures'
By Jacob Fox published
News The Github-hosted analysis doesn't paint a pretty picture.

You can install the new Xbox Full screen experience mode for Windows on handhelds but whether it will work is another question entirely
By Jacob Fox published
News It clearly needs a tad more tinkering before it's ready to roll.

I've not been this smitten over a gaming mouse since the G Pro X Superlight: The wireless Corsair Sabre V2 Pro weighs just 36 grams
By Jacob Fox published
News The Corsair Sabre V2 knows how to push my buttons.

The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike brings analogue tech to a gaming mouse for the first time and uses haptic feedback to replicate the feel of a mouse click
By Jacob Fox published
News I'm curious just how well those haptics can replicate the feel of a mouse click.

Researchers argue that 'at least 40%' of the bloated x86 ISA could be removed and emulated to improve CPU efficiency
By Jacob Fox published
News They propose a big SHRINK.

We Brits are finally getting a slice of Nvidia pie as up to 60,000 Blackwell GPUs will be heading to the UK as part of $42 billion deal with the US
By Jacob Fox published
News Any chips going spare?

Good news for Windows handhelds: Microsoft is now letting you launch installed Steam, Battle.net, and other storefront games from the Xbox app
By Jacob Fox published
News Xbox is becoming more of an all-encompassing platform.

This spicy leverless DIY kit has tiny circuit boards under each button so you can create your own rapid trigger Hitbox
By Jacob Fox published
News It doesn't come cheap, though.

This entire website is hosted on a disposable vape so think twice before throwing one in the trash
By Jacob Fox published
News Now let's get vape-based Doom up and running.

AI cloud companies have guzzled up so much HDD storage that they might be coming for our SSDs next
By Jacob Fox published
News *Smiles nervously*.

This humanoid robot is playing ping pong better than most amateur players I've seen
By Jacob Fox published
News It's even balancing like a human. When do we move into uncanny valley?

Hyte says all Thicc Q80 Trio users should 'remove the cooler from their system immediately' and get a refund after internal fault found
By Jacob Fox published
News The 'raid boss of liquid coolers' has been slain.

'This is an Xbox', Microsoft claims over an image of a car that will soon offer cloud game streaming
By Jacob Fox published
News Seems like the logical next step.

Get those Steam Decks and Legion Go S handhelds updated because Valve's just released a metric ton of fixes in the latest client
By Jacob Fox published
News How long has Valve been sitting on these?
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