
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

Linux researcher and developer says 'there are bugs in your kernel right now that won't be found for years. I know because I analyzed 125,183 of them'
By Jacob Fox published
News What's bug's scarier than a spider? That's right, a Linux bug 😱

Asus is now implementing 'strategic price adjustments' and retailers are already hiking prices for laptops from other brands
By Jacob Fox published
News No doubt a sign of things to come.

Corsair's latest mouse pad is just begging to have my greasy fingers all over it
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 Kidding, I have far too much respect for the humble mouse pad for that.

These $200 audiophile earbuds mix planar and dynamic drivers and they look like they might actually be decent for gaming
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 Low-latency mode and some planar drivers in there, too.

Lenovo's latest rollable screen concept laptop has finally got its rolly polly the right way around
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 Left to right, not up to down.

MSI announces the 'most powerful gaming laptop on the planet' in the form of the 300 W RTX 5090 Raider 16 Max HX
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 Most powerful, so presumably most expensive, too?

AMD and Nvidia talking up local AI for consumers could be bad news for those ChatGPT subscriptions but good news for us PC gamers
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 Also, the glass is half full.

Corsair brings Hall effect to its dinky enthusiast gaming keyboard in the form of the MAKR Pro 75
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 Small and mighty.

Corsair just announced carbon fiber and magnesium alloy versions of my favourite gaming mouse since Logitech's G Pro X Superlight
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 But maybe they shouldn't be called the same name as the original.

If you're disappointed by the lack of gaming talk in Nvidia's CES keynote, fear not because the company might be, umm, bringing back the RTX 3060
By Jacob Fox published
News Although, this could actually signal worse news for PC gamers.

Nvidia looks to further eradicate motion blur with new G-Sync Pulsar improvements for '4x the effective motion clarity'
By Jacob Fox published
CES 2026 "With Pulsar, you get the motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor as if you're rendering at 1,000 fps."

PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
By Dave James published
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.

Last year I predicted all three of Valve's announcements so now I reckon I have the ability to speak these 2026 prophecies into reality
By Jacob Fox published
I know the future I predict a near-perfect year for PC gaming hardware, mark my words.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025
By Jacob Fox published
Gear of the year Three rodent contenders, but only one winner for the year.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboard of 2025
By Jacob Fox published
Gear of the year Three fantastic keyboards from this year, but there can only be one winner.

My fave piece of PC gaming tech to launch this year was the softest kind of hardware there is
By Jacob Fox published
Gear of the Year Yes, a humble mouse pad.

2025 might have been the year for Linux gaming, but there's still a way to go until I switch from Windows
By Jacob Fox published
Reluctantly Microsoft Windows, sadly, still offers some things that Linux cannot.

I play new games about once every never, but Killing Floor 3 reeled me in this year because it's basically not a new game
By Jacob Fox published
🏆 If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Ex-ASML workers reverse-engineered state of the art chipmaking machines to get China far closer than previously thought to independence from foreign tech
By Jacob Fox published
News China might really be on the heels of the West, this time.

Goldman Sachs research seems to point towards DRAM and SSD prices spiking next year as memory supply lags behind demand
By Jacob Fox published
News It looks like all things memory will increase in price quarter-over-quarter.

If you want to scrub Windows 11's AI features off the face of the earth some legend has made a tool that does just that
By Jacob Fox published
News Nuke it from orbit.

This Zotac mini PC has an inventive way of ditching its RTX 5060 Ti's power cables, and no it's not the same as the Asus BTF way
By Jacob Fox published
News Split a PCIe connector in two? Hold my beer.

These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I've ever seen
By Jacob Fox published
News Great for visual learners.
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