
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

Tim Cook hands over Apple's $4 trillion reins to 'the perfect person for the job', hardware engineering SVP John Ternus
By Jacob Fox published
News Ternus has led Apple's hardware engineering since 2021.

'A performance tool that requires a graduate seminar before breakfast has already lost the room': Why Windows Task Manager looks like it's getting CPU usage wrong
By Jacob Fox published
News There's more to CPU utilisation calculations than at first meet the eye.

AMD docs hint that multi frame gen might finally be coming to Radeon GPUs
By Jacob Fox published
News Better late than never.

Full path tracing might not be such a GPU hog in future, as Nvidia claims over 2x performance improvements in new research
By Jacob Fox published
News It could mean half the performance cost of path tracing.

Oh, how times have changed. I'd now buy an RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC with 32 GB RAM over an RTX 5070 PC with just 16 GB any day of the week in the RAMpocalypse
By Jacob Fox published
Deal This machine will also get you the 16 GB version of the Nvidia GPU, too.

Exclusive deal: Get Surfshark's unlimited VPN connections for over two years at just $1.78 per month
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Surfshark was already cheap, but every little helps.

The Razer Viper V4 Pro has reminded me that few things can beat great build quality in a mouse
By Jacob Fox published
Vibin' Viper Ultralight shells and analogue clicks are great, but so is build quality.

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on
By Dave James last updated
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.

Where does your PC live? There is obviously one correct answer, can you pick it out?
By Dave James published
Poll Don't hide your gaming light under a bushel. Or a desk.

Logitech Superstrike vs Razer Viper V4 Pro: The battle for the competitive crown
By Jacob Fox published
Squeak-off Pitting analogue clicks against top-tier build and performance.

Razer Viper V4 Pro review
By Jacob Fox published
Score: 95% There's a new rodent king in town.

CoreWeave co-founder says even older GPUs are still rising in price and are in demand for AI servers
By Jacob Fox published
News Though I suppose every chip this side of the moon is in demand with the AI boom.

Apparently you can't escape Microsoft Outlook issues even in space as Artemis II astronauts ask NASA for help with the software
By Jacob Fox published
News In space, nobody can hear the Windows error sound.

AMD says Intel's 'interesting choices' around multithreading could help Epyc CPUs gain server market share
By Jacob Fox published
News Well, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan did say that ditching SMT was a bad idea.

It looks like Intel might ditch regular E-cores for its upcoming Core 300 laptop chips
By Jacob Fox published
News The upcoming low-power processors might not make for the best gaming chips.

Oracle, darling of the AI boom, is reportedly laying off around 10,000 people
By Jacob Fox published
News There has been a "significant reduction in force."

If you want to crank tons more gaming performance out of the Apple MacBook Neo, apparently a custom water cooling loop works
By Jacob Fox published
News Required equipment includes a 3D printer, a CNC mill, and some guts.

Web-code library with millions of weekly downloads poisoned by malicious release: 'This is unironically a malware nuclear missile'
By Jacob Fox published
News Developers using Axios are recommended to check for exposure.

This tool tells you exactly how much your latency could improve by changing your mouse's polling rate
By Jacob Fox published
News 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 8 kHz: Hopefully, we can soon settle the score.

Forget Doom, how about a Prince of Persia port on a Flipper Zero
By Jacob Fox published
News Prince of Arabia has gone from Arduino port to Flipper Zero port.

In the long list of awful things AI might lead to we can also add killing open-source software
By Jacob Fox published
News Assuming nothing's done to prevent this copyright circumvention technique.

Pearl Abyss says to roll back your GPU driver if you're struggling to get Crimson Desert working on your ROG Xbox Ally X
By Jacob Fox published
News Though a fix is seemingly in the works.

Our favorite budget 1440p gaming monitor that goes up to 210 Hz is just a touch over $150 right now
By Jacob Fox published
Deal That's a fantastic price for a very performant panel.
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