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 (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
I chose the worst four years to take a hiatus from gaming hardware because now I feel like I'm being handed alien tech when confronted with a Steam Deck
By Jacob Fox published
:O And chips are 3D now?! Honestly, I turn my back for two seconds.
Shareholders sue CrowdStrike over consequences of catastrophic worldwide IT outage and I don't think an Uber Eats voucher will cut it this time
By Jacob Fox published
News The company's share price has dropped by tens of billions.
Logitech's 'forever mouse' could mean peripherals go the way of coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink by pushing a subscription
By Jacob Fox published
News Could a mouse ever be timeless?
iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for 'hitting our servers a million times in 24 hours' and even the AI company's own chatbot disapproves
By Jacob Fox published
News Next, maybe we could teach AI to respect people's boundaries.
Google's now the only search engine that will show new Reddit posts in search results and it's somewhat AI's fault
By Jacob Fox published
News When will this Big Tech drama end? Maybe when all this "AI" stuff blows over.
Nvidia's share price drops along with other AI firms, but all is peachy as they collectively remain some of the most valuable companies on the planet
By Jacob Fox published
News Markets ebb and flow, even for massively hyped industries.
People are making mini Fractal Design cases for their Raspberry Pi and it's making me wish I owned a 3D printer so I could do the same
By Jacob Fox published
News My Raspberry Pi 5 is mighty jealous, right now.
US, UK, and EU finally come together to prevent AI monopoly (catastrophic market failure, not the game)
By Jacob Fox published
News Everyone agrees an all-powerful AI run by one company would be a bad idea.
Intel finally breaks silence, points finger at 'microcode algorithm' voltage errors, and says it's going to patch Core 13th/14th Gen CPU stability issues mid-August
By Jacob Fox published
News Fingers crossed, eh?
33,700,000 motherboards expected to ship in 2024, signaling the end of the PC market's dry spell
By Jacob Fox published
News The four big motherboard manufacturers are expected to ship heaps more this year.
Do temps matter no more? Next-gen Intel desktop CPUs might run as hot as Meteor Lake laptop chips
By Jacob Fox published
News The rumour mill's churning out some spicy but reasonable numbers.
Mr. DIMM, why do you have so many chips? Micron's new monstrous multi-rank memory doubles DDR5 speed to 8,800 MT/s
By Jacob Fox published
News Are memory companies looking for new ways to increase bandwidth to capitalise on the AI boom?
It looks like AMD is racing Intel to production of chips on glass substrates for faster, more efficient processors
By Jacob Fox published
News Can we call it Infinity Glass? AMD had better jump on that, pronto.
Dino survival game developer is switching all its servers to AMD 'which experience 100 times fewer crashes compared to Intel' because it's 'only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail'
By Jacob Fox published
News 90% of game crash reports in one investigation came from Intel 13th or 14th Gen CPUs. Ouch.
'Nvidia is slowly becoming the IBM of the AI era' says Jim Keller, perhaps forgetting how short-lived IBM's PC monopoly was
By Jacob Fox published
News Will the ever-inflating AI bubble burst?
Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
By Jacob Fox published
News Mr. Robot eat your heart out. No, wait… Vin Diesel, eat your heart out?
Here's your reminder how close AMD came to financial collapse and just how much we owe to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
By Jacob Fox published
News Do you remember Bulldozer or have you blocked out those dark times, too?
'We have won the war on floppy disks!' Japan finally declares independence from floppy media
By Jacob Fox published
News Good news for Japan, bad news for my nostalgic heart.
Beware: The latest Windows 11 update might just trap you in a boot loop of virtualised doom
By Jacob Fox published
News Thankfully, this should only be a problem for virtualised environments that installed the optional update.
The most popular RTX 40-series GPU on Steam is in a gaming laptop, not a graphics card
By Jacob Fox published
News June's Steam hardware survey shows ever more RTX 4060 laptop gamers.
Ever wondered what your gaming PC is telling the world about you? Here's why your privacy matters and what you can do to protect it
By Jacob Fox published
Privacy matters We PC gamers tend to forget how much of our data is being harvested. Thankfully, there are plenty of easy steps to take to increase privacy while gaming.
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