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

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduces Vera Rubin, a next-generation AI data center platform, and Rubin Ultra, a next-generation AI GPU architecture, during the keynote address at GTC 2026.
Nvidia Rubin will 'soak up NAND supply like a sponge absorbs water' says one analyst, thanks to the AI server's new way of using SSDs

By Jacob Fox Published

News It looks like context memory storage (CXM) will guzzle a lot of NAND.

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A screenshot of 7-Zip with its About window open, showing version 26.02 which fixes a vulnerability.
It's probably time to update 7-Zip as the app has just been patched to fix a pretty big vulnerability

By Jacob Fox Published

News It will need to be manually updated to version 26.02 or later.

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An Acer Predator Atlas 8 handheld gaming PC on a blue background.
Acer's Predator Atlas 8 pricing puts the nail in the handheld coffin for me: it is now a luxury market

By Jacob Fox Published

News Just as predicted.

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. TSMC is scheduled to release earnings results on Oct. 19.
Ex-TSMC manager first to be indicted under National Security Act for allegedly attempting to leak core Taiwanese chipmaking technologies to China

By Jacob Fox Published

News They could face up to seven years in prison.

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Nvidia DLSS 5 control sliders.
Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter

By Jacob Fox Published

News The company is, however, 'building more' controls.

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Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 card and box view
If you're looking for ideas on how to mod your RTX 4060, maybe remove its fans and slap a ridiculously big heatsink on it like this person did

By Jacob Fox Published

News Or don't, I can't tell you want to do.

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SK hynix, Samsung, and Micron signs in front of company buildings.
'There are limits to how much prices can be raised' says SK hynix chairman about memory crisis but I'm not sure the market will care

By Jacob Fox Published

News Will more supply be enough?

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The corner of a Wallhack glass mouse pad.
Hot swappable mouse batteries might be the hot new trend as it looks like Wallhack's first ever mouse will have them

By Jacob Fox Published

News The company's first gaming mouse looks pretty lush.

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Jacob Fox wearing a gaming sleeve, not once but thrice.
Glass mouse pads haven't won me over but gamer sleeves are a different story

By Jacob Fox Published

Mock me if you must. My gamer sleeve and I aren't listening.

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A photo of a gaming monitor displaying queued Windows updates
I think the latest record-breaking Windows 11 update messed up my monitor

By Jacob Fox Published

News The morning after the update, its 400 Hz capabilities were no more.

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ASML production facility
The company that makes all the West's chipmaking machines says it's selling more than it expected thanks to 'very strong momentum in both DRAM and advanced logic'

By Jacob Fox Published

News It's all a race to catch up with astronomical demand.

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Against a backdrop of advancing Chinese production, TSMC announces another $100 billion worth of chipmaking will be invested in the US

By Jacob Fox Published

News This, after a strong quarter.

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A close-up photo of a pair of Micron and SK Hynix DDR5 DIMMs, showing the memory modules on black/green PCBs
DRAM demand predicted to outstrip supply by 28.7 exabytes in 2030, which is almost as much as the actual DRAM in the world right now

By Jacob Fox Published

News More to come? Joy.

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The IBM-made Gamecube Gekko PowerPC processor
'Worse than our expectations': IBM's shares drop 25% after CEO says it hasn't adapted quickly enough to AI industry changes

By Jacob Fox Published

News That's a steep drop.

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A screenshot of a Windows 11 desktop with a search for "disable windows search" in the Start menu.
New changes to Windows 11 Start menu and search look genuinely exciting and thank the heavens that we'll be able to disable web results

By Jacob Fox Published

News Keep going in this direction, please, Microsoft.

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A stock photo of a computer motherboard with multiple memory slots filled with DRAM DIMMs for High Performance Computing (HPC)
So THIS is why component makers have started validating their products for Chinese memory

By Jacob Fox Published

News CXMT is estimated to essentially match Micron in terms of DRAM manufacturing capabilities this year.

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A Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike gaming mouse
We might see a new Logitech Superstrike this September, just a few months after the world's first proper analogue mouse launched

By Jacob Fox Published

News Apparently no new sensor, though.

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Framework 13 Pro laptop
AI did a surprisingly good job with designing a rack for three Framework mainboards

By Jacob Fox Published

News Great, I'll take one. With the Framework mainboards, of course.

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AMD RX 9070 XT and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards from Asus
More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x

By Jacob Fox Published

News Not only that, but Ray Regeneration and Neural Radiance Caching overrides.

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A KTC 25M1 400 Hz gaming monitor.
KTC 25M1 400 Hz gaming monitor review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 89% Smooth, snappy, and surprisingly well-priced for a high refresh panel.

Score: 89%
Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. - stock photo. Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA - August 23, 2022
It looks like Samsung is taking a leaf out of Nvidia's book and making a proper PC processor

By Jacob Fox Published

News If 2026 is the year of Linux, could 2027 be the year of Windows on Arm?

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A Logitech G316 X gaming keyboard on a wooden desk.
Logitech G316 X (tactile) gaming keyboard review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 61% Oh what could have been.

Score: 61%
A screenshot of the listing of most-played games on the Epic Games Store, as of January 2024.
Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign

By Jacob Fox Published

News Slides out of Unreal Fest promise "5x faster cold start (average)" and "6.5x faster systray restore to library (average)" as Epic works on making its store suck less.

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ASML EUV machine with internals exposed
The US is worried China could have a top-spec chipmaking machine despite export restrictions, but the machine maker ASML denies it

By Jacob Fox Published

News All I know is you can't hide a 150+ ton EUV machine in MY house.

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Holding a Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse
Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly

By Jacob Fox Published

News 'DPI downshift', they call it.

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