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

A Discord logo on a phone next to a Shure MV6 USB condensor mic on a desk.
You will reportedly be able to move the annoying voices in your Discord calls far away with an upcoming spatial audio feature

By Jacob Fox Published

News Sorry, can't hear you over there.

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The Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition on a desk with various parts disassembled.
I'm trying to work out what Noctua's brush-like Computex teaser might be and all I can come up with is a hairy fan

By Jacob Fox Published

News Brushie brushie brushie.

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Corsair Shugo micro-drilled LED RAM, in front of a moon, with blossoms falling next to it.
This Corsair RAM features 'light-emitting micro-drilling technology' and looks gorgeous but it's 2026 so of course it costs $600 for 32 GB

By Jacob Fox Published

News I think I'll need to start a GoFundMe.

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SK hynix, Samsung, and Micron signs in front of company buildings.
Two memory manufacturers join Samsung in the $1 trillion market cap club, global DRAM revenue is nearing $100,000,000,000, and I'm here with my head in my hands

By Jacob Fox Published

News Insert 'congrats happy for you' meme here.

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A Finalmouse Starlight X gaming mouse on a night sky background.
This new gaming mouse looks to combine tech similar to Logitech's analogue clicks and Razer's frame sync but I'm a little sceptical

By Jacob Fox Published

News The clicks look similar to Keychron's recently announced solution, too.

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A Valorant character on the left and a Riot Games sign on the right.
Riot taunts would-be hackers using physical hardware to cheat: 'congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight'

By Jacob Fox Published

News Vanguard gets a DMA-spanking upgrade.

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A white Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse
Replacing the Viper V4 Pro's skates gave one reviewer some Razer warranty trouble after glass pad sensor issues

By Jacob Fox Published

News The issue is resolved now, but it raises questions over warranty wording.

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A MacBook Neo mod that uses an industrial air blower to cool it.
You can crank wild performance out of a MacBook Neo if only you use a giant industrial air blower and Peltier thermoelectric cooling

By Jacob Fox Published

News A simple sandwich.

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Close-up shot of an RTX 5070's PCIe slot
Another quarter, another quarterly update from Nvidia that doesn't mention gaming

By Jacob Fox Published

News Womp womp, but I suppose what do we expect?

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the left, and an Nvidia building sign on the right.
Nvidia says 'demand for AI infrastructure continues to expand at an unprecedented pace' but after speaking to experts about it, I'm not so sure

By Jacob Fox Published

News The future of the AI industry isn't as certain as Nvidia seems to make out.

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CHONGQING, CHINA - JULY 29: In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE: NET), an American web infrastructure and website security company, with the company's cloud logo visible in the background, on July 29, 2025 in Chongqing, China. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare says Claude Mythos reasoning 'looks like the work of a senior researcher'

By Jacob Fox Published

News Cloudflare has been figuring out how to best use the model.

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A Herman Miller Coyl gaming desk on a grey background.
Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

By Jacob Fox Published

News Just a dash of colour ties it together.

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The Valorant practice range with a superimposed image of a hand on a Zowie EC2-DW gaming mouse.
Valorant gets Anti-Lag 2 but after testing it I don't think users with high-end AMD rigs should crack open the champagne

By Jacob Fox Published

News Lower-end rigs might have more to gain.

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A Zowie EC2-DW gaming mouse in-hand.
Zowie EC2-DW review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 82% The mouse of my dreams, but my dreams are all Counter-Strike, baby.

Score: 82%
An LG UltraGear 25G590B gaming monitor on a red and white background.
LG reveals the world's first native 1,000 Hz 1080p panel but you're gonna need a beast of a rig to make good use of it

By Jacob Fox Published

News It'll be a niche market for this one.

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Two of the best wireless gaming headsets with a PC Gamer recommends badge in the top right.
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: 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
A Logitech G502 X and Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse on a yellow background with a PC Gamer Recommended logo in the top-right.
Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks

By Dave James Last updated

Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.

Pinpoint
The SteelSeries QcK Performance mouse pad and the Razer Firefly V2 Pro on a silver/white background with the PC Gamer recommended badge in the top right
Best mouse pads for gaming in 2026: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on

By Jacob Ridley Last updated

Slick The best mouse pads offer slick mouse movement and awesome aesthetics, no matter what surface you prefer.

Slick
A CPU and gaming PC next to a map highlighting the strait of Hormuz in Iran
Here's how the Iran war is hitting key supplies for components, according to supply chain experts

By Jacob Fox Published

Supply choke The ripples span wider than you might think.

Supply choke
The XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT on white gravel
AMD reportedly planning a new budget graphics card with a surprising number of cores

By Jacob Fox Published

News Though much lower clocks.

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A Keychron MagOptic hybrid magnetic-optical mouse switch animation still.
Keychron calls this 'the next gen mouse switch' and I believe it: optical and magnetic all-in-one

By Jacob Fox Published

News Rapid trigger or traditional optical clicks: Keychron says why not both?

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An image of Richard Dawkins next to an image of the Claude logo on a phone.
No, Richard Dawkins, AI is bloody well not conscious

By Jacob Fox Published

Biology vs silicon And if you think otherwise, you'd better at least attempt to don your philosophy cap.

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Biology vs silicon
A Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz gaming monitor with Counter-Strike 2 on-screen.
Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz review

By Jacob Fox Published

Score: 77% Ridiculously fast and prohibitively expensive.

Score: 77%
Screenshots of NordVPN, Windscribe, and Surfshark VPN windows overlapping on top of a pink and purple background.
I spent a full week testing different VPNs and I'm changing my no-VPNs-while-gaming advice

By Jacob Fox Published

Ping or privacy VPN gaming isn't the pointless endeavour I assumed it was.

Ping or privacy
Logitech g305
Everyone's favorite egg-shaped rodent might be getting the Superlight treatment, meaning Logitech could once again snatch the budget gaming mouse crown

By Jacob Fox Published

News It will all depend on that price tag, though.

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