Jacob Fox

Jacob Fox

Hardware Writer

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

Dave Plummer showing a Windows NT 4.0 Task Manager running on Windows 11.
I just found out the creator of Windows Task Manager accidentally left his phone number inside the app

By Jacob Fox Published

News That's one heck of a self-doxx.

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OpenAI's patent for more HBM chips.
OpenAI's hilarious new patent diagrams have 'HBM stacked up like rice cakes'

By Jacob Fox Published

News Would you expect any less from OpenAI during a memory shortage?

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Sci-fi shooter Pragmata
Pragmata is yet another launch day fail for Intel's GPUs, but its quick response to game issues shows it's still working hard for gamers

By Jacob Fox Published

News The dad sim is back on the table for Intel GPUs.

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Two Razer Atlas Pro glass mouse pads floating in the void.
Razer has just announced the world's thinnest glass mouse pad and it looks gorgeous

By Jacob Fox Published

News I'm here for it, but it all depends on that glide.

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Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., beside an Apple Vision Pro mixed reality (XR) headset during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 5, 2023. Apple Inc. will charge $3,499 for its long-awaited mixed-reality headset, testing whether consumers are ready to spend big bucks on a technology that the company sees as the future of computing. Photographer: Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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.

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Windows 11 Task Manager showing an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D's CPU utilisation chart.
'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.

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AMD RX 9070 XT and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards from Asus
AMD docs hint that multi frame gen might finally be coming to Radeon GPUs

By Jacob Fox Published

News Better late than never.

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A screenshot from Alan Wake 2 showing the main character walking down a street.
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.

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An ABS Flux II Aqua gaming PC on a custom PC Gamer Deals background.
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.

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Surfshark VPN running on multiple devices, in front of a custom PC Gamer Deals background.
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.

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A white Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse
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.

Vibin' Viper
An Mchose G3 V2 Pro and Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse on a green background with a PC Gamer Recommended label on the top right.
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.

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Dave's gaming PC on his desk
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.

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A Razer Viper V4 Pro next to a Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike.
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.

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Holding a Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse
Razer Viper V4 Pro review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 95% There's a new rodent king in town.

Score: 95%
Nvidia A100 GPU
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.

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Starfield sci-fi game with spaceship
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.

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AMD's CEO Lisa Su at CES 2020
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.

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Panther Lake
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.

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 03: Oracle co-founder, CTO and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. After signing a series of executive orders and proclamations, Trump spoke to reporters about a range of topics including recent negotiations with Mexico on tarriffs. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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."

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A water cooled Apple MacBook Neo.
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.

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Fallout hacking minigame
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.

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Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro gaming mouse
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.

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Prince of Arabia, a port of Prince of Persia, running on a Flipper Zero.
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.

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AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su on stage with 'AI is everywhere' in the background.
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.

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