
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

'Now you've got something that's a little bit easier and less expensive and can go a little bit faster': Intel's lead x86 CPU architect explains why it's not bringing Hyper-Threading back for Panther Lake
By Jacob Fox published
News You just don't need it when you have hybrid cores.

Thank you Galax for this skinny RTX 5060 Ti because there's something surprisingly alluring about single-slot graphics cards
By Jacob Fox published
News In the year of the chonk, too.

Valve's long-awaited standalone VR headset, Deckard, could be here before year's end according to word on the street from China
By Jacob Fox published
News It's been 84 ye- sorry, three years.

Apparently optical gaming mice can spy on what we're saying and video games are an 'ideal target'
By Jacob Fox published
News Maybe it's time to turn that polling rate down again.

Battlefield 6 ditching ray tracing seems to have paid off because the latest system requirements say 4K at 240 Hz is possible
By Jacob Fox published
News You'll need a beefy rig, but that it's possible at all is fantastic.

The Windows 10 era is over and with it, the last time I felt my PC was truly my own
By Jacob Fox published
End of an era Oh to be back in 2015.

Amazon October Prime Day gaming PC deals
By Jacob Fox last updated
Prime Day Deals The Prime Big Deal Days are officially over, but many of the gaming PC deals deals still remain.

It's only been around for five months and already the best multi-button MMO rodent is the best Prime Day gaming mouse deal
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day Running out of keybinds? Fear not, says the Scimitar Elite Wireless SE.

My favorite USB4 external SSD is at its lowest ever price for October Prime Day and makes for a very snappy 2 TB of storage
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day It's the best external drive I've tested to date.

One of the most gorgeous gaming laptops I've used is almost $500 off even with an RTX 5070 for October Prime Day
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day And it's an OLED, too.

These earbuds are my daily drivers and they just dropped to their lowest ever price of $56 for October Prime Day
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day Great all-rounders and pretty stellar for gaming, too.

Forget the ROG Xbox Ally, for $600 this October Prime Day I'd be picking up a 1 TB Lenovo Legion Go
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day It's not even really a contest, is it?

This RX 9070 XT gaming PC is way cheaper than equivalent RTX 5070 Ti builds this Prime Day and should be enough to tempt any Nvidia fan
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day An X3D chip too, lovely.

$1,099 for an RTX 5070 gaming PC this Amazon October Prime Day is giving me hope for our frighteningly expensive hobby
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day And you can color me slightly less jaded about sales events.

The comfiest controller I've ever used is currently $17 off in the Prime Day sales
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day The Scuf Valor Pro is almost perfect, if only it weren't for that pesky cable.

This isn't the cheapest RTX 5080 gaming PC I've found this Prime Day, but it packs a lot of powerful hardware into a dinky SFF chassis
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day A cute li'l sleeper build.

This is the lowest I've seen an RTX 5060 gaming PC going for, a mere $749, but there might be a small catch with this Prime Day deal
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day That looks like one RAM stick to me.

There's a new king of lightweight gaming mice and I'll 1v1 anyone who disses the ultralight market
By Jacob Fox published
Float on Meet me at T Spawn.

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.
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