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 (result pending a patiently awaited viva exam) 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

Three gaming desktop PCs, the Alienware Aurora R16, Lenovo Legion Gen 8 and the Yeiyan Odachi, on a green/blue background

Amazon Prime Day gaming PC deals

By Jacob Fox last updated

Prime Day Deals Prime Day 2025 is almost here and so are some tasty gaming PC deals.

Prime Day Deals
Amazon Prime Day deals scattered on a blue background.

Amazon Prime Day UK PC gaming deals

By Jacob Fox last updated

Prime Day Deals Amazon Prime Day 2025 is just one weekend away, and other retailers are already joining the party with discounts of their own.

Prime Day Deals
An ASRock B860 Steel Legend Wi-Fi motherboard on a desk with SSD covers removed.

This B860 motherboard is what I'd pair with a Core Ultra 265K to make a powerful pairing for about $500

By Jacob Fox published

Budget steel It looks rather pretty, too.

Budget steel
Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS handheld gaming PC being held in-hand, with a PC Gamer Editor's Pick label on the top-right

The Legion Go S SteamOS is completing the Steam Deck's mission to make handheld PC gaming genuinely convenient

By Jacob Fox published

Steam oh yes There's a new handheld emperor in town.

Steam oh yes
Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS and Valve Steam Deck on a yellow background with PC Gamer Recommended label

Best handheld gaming PC in 2025: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Portable PC PC gaming has officially gone portable, and these handheld gaming PCs are mighty quick.

Portable PC
Jacob kissing a Logitech G Pro X Superlight gaming mouse

My best friend is a gaming mouse: An ode to the finest rodent around, the Logitech G Pro X Superlight

By Jacob Fox published

Super right This post is not sponsored, honest.

Super right

The first true 1:1 test we have shows Steam OS getting better performance than Windows in 10 big games, tying in 2 more, and it's got me salivating for a desktop version of Valve's OS

By Ted Litchfield published

news Liberate me from this prison.

news
Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS handheld gaming PC being held in-hand, with a PC Gamer Editor's Pick label on the top-right

Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS review

By Jacob Fox published

Souped-up SteamOS This is the handheld we've been waiting for.

Souped-up SteamOS
Corsair HS55 and HyperX Cloud Alpha wireless gaming headsets against a colored background, with a PC Gamer Recommended logo

Best wireless gaming headsets in 2025: the top cans I'd buy myself

By Dave James last updated

Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.

Untethered
Two of the best headsets side by side on a pink background.

Best gaming headsets in 2025: I'd bet my ears on these headphones

By Dave James last updated

Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.

Quality cans
SanDisk Extreme Pro 2 TB USB4 external SSD

SanDisk Extreme Pro 2 TB external SSD review

By Jacob Fox published

USB4 you and me Bringing blistering USB4 speeds into the mainstream.

USB4 you and me
Sycom Silent Master RTX 5070 Ti with Noctua fans on a brown and cream background

Here's another RTX 50-series graphics card with Noctua fans, proving once again they are catnip for PC hardware engineers

By Jacob Fox published

News Looks like this one's not for the western market, though, booooo.

News
SuccessfulHost6375's cel shaded, hand-drawn PC case on a desk with a green background

'Couldn't afford a PC so I drew one' says one Redditor after drawing a God-tier cel shaded case mod for his kids to play Minecraft on

By Jacob Fox published

News Now install that cel shaded graphics mod and you're golden.

News
An Amstrad-ALT286 retro PC with a Minisforum UM890 Pro mini PC inside, on a desk with a retro mouse

This retro sleeper build hides one of the top mini PCs inside and I wish I had the tools and patience to game like it's the '90s

By Jacob Fox published

News Someone bring me a Dremel.

News
Bento project from michaelthatsit, which puts a Steam Deck's hardware inside a keyboard

An ex-Apple Vision Pro engineer turned a Steam Deck into an all-in-one keyboard for XR, and now you can too

By Jacob Fox published

News Though I'd still be using it for gaming myself.

News
A photo showing the GPU retaining mechanism on an MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk motherboard

MSI's latest BIOS update hints at new AMD CPUs and I'm hoping it's Strix Point APUs coming to desktop

By Jacob Fox published

News Or Gorgonzola Poi- sorry, Gorgon Point.

News
A T-Rex and other dinosaurs

Jurassic World Evolution 3's system requirements are graciously breezy and don't require a dino-sized SSD

By Jacob Fox published

News Prehistoric rigs rejoice.

News
Close-up shot of an RTX 5070's PCIe slot

Some RTX 50-series gamers with EVGA motherboards are having to physically tape their graphics cards to boot up their PC

By Jacob Fox published

News Nothing a bit of tape won't fix, eh?

News
Razer BlackWidow V4 75 barebones gaming keyboard

Razer's first barebones kit is a big win for keyboard nerds and is cheaper than Corsair's new one

By Jacob Fox published

News This could be the start of a healthy customisable gaming keyboard scene.

News
High angle close up view of orange laptop and a floppy disk on green background

US aviation is another industry looking to finally wave goodbye to frightfully persistent floppy disks

By Jacob Fox published

News And paper, too?

News
An image of the best external hard drives on a red background with the PC Gamer recommended badge

Best external hard drives in 2025: the storage media I'd take on my own gaming adventures

By Nick Evanson last updated

TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.

TB on the go
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A fresh benchmark for Nvidia's unannounced consumer APU suggests it's coming for Intel and AMD's finest and is maybe close to production-ready

By Jacob Fox published

News The DGX Spark silicon could soon be brought to consumer laptops.

News
ARM logo exhibited at ARM stand during the Mobile World Congress (MWC).

I spoke with Arm about PC gaming and was told that Windows software compatibility is 'largely a solved problem'

By Jacob Fox published

News But the future of Windows on Arm gaming will depend on developers.

News
Nothing Ear (a) earbuds on a Razer HyperFlux mouse pad next to a Razer mouse

Nothing Ear (a) review

By Jacob Fox published

Stylish buds Lovely earbuds for almost everything except gaming.

Stylish buds
Images of Nvidia's Blackwell GPU from GTC.

Nvidia's research boss claims the company's Chinese AI researchers are now writing programs for Huawei instead and is blaming the US chip exports

By Jacob Fox published

News But is Nvidia really worried?

News
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