
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

Best cheap gaming PC deals
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Deals Our simple advice: don't pay full price for a gaming PC.

This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast
By Jacob Fox published
News No need to choose between a small, fast TN/IPS or an OLED.

Counter-Strike is good for personal development, but don't let me tell you, listen to this bona fide Buddhist monk with a beast RTX 4090 rig instead
By Jacob Fox published
News True Zen runs on Intel, it seems.

It looks like the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld powered by Intel's new Arc G-series chips will have a pinch of ROG Xbox Ally to it
By Jacob Fox published
News There's a little jut to that screen.

Acer's Predator Atlas 8 handheld gaming PC with new Intel G-series chips looks a lot like a beefier Lenovo Legion Go S
By Jacob Fox published
News Beefier in raw horsepower as well as weight, from the looks of it.

Is this a biblically accurate robot or have I just spent too much time down the cryptozoology rabbit hole
By Jacob Fox published
News And more importantly, why is it so cute?

New Intel-based handheld gaming PCs sound great but all signs point towards yet more prohibitively expensive price tags
By Jacob Fox published
News With even the Steam Deck shooting up in price, can we expect any better here?

Someone is trying to use lost property 'finder' laws to gain legal ownership of 39,069 Bitcoin wallets, with just one of them being worth nearly $6,000,000,000
By Jacob Fox published
News The list includes the infamous wallet with Mt. Gox stolen funds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For the next week get an Amazon gift card worth up to $30 when you subscribe to Surfshark VPN
By Jacob Fox published
Deal The VPN itself costs just a couple of bucks per month.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Zowie EC2-DW review
By Jacob Fox published
Score: 82% The mouse of my dreams, but my dreams are all Counter-Strike, baby.
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