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
You may never have to plug your Logitech mouse in again to charge it now the PowerPlay mousepad is at its lowest ever price
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Deal Oh, and say goodbye to the USB dongle, too!
I've been a busy little elf, building a whole Christmas PC gift guide out of the Black Friday gaming deals on offer today
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Live From ridiculous little glow in the dark figurines to premium handheld gaming PCs, the best gifts I find will go right here.
Forget unaffordable gaming PCs and GPUs, here are my favorite actually affordable Black Friday PC gaming deals under $50
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Deal There's surprisingly a lot of great value gear at the budget end, this year.
You can do better than the same old Samsung 990 Pro SSD this Black Friday, I'd buy one of these three deals instead
By Jacob Fox published
Deal The 990 Pro isn't bad, but there are some other seriously wonderful deals on right now.
Logitech, I don't care if it's Black Friday, please make this the last discount on my favorite gaming mouse so I can stop writing about it
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Ten billionth time's the charm?
The game-recording, streaming, and TV-beaming handheld dock that turned my Legion Go into a proper console is at its lowest ever price for Black Friday
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Perfect for anyone looking to stream or record their handheld gameplay.
The 1 TB version of the handheld gaming PC I fell in love with is now $200 off for Black Friday
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Deal "Hold me like you hold the Legion Go" - my partner.
Well if it isn't another gaming PC deal from Yeyian, but this one with an RTX 4080 Super has me genuinely envious of those with cash to spare this Black Friday
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Lord, make me a channel of thy peace, and also if you get chance please grant me a Yeyian 4080 Super gaming PC.
'Just like we generate electricity, we're now going to be generating AI': Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sees AI as a commodity to be made in 'AI factories'
By Jacob Fox published
News I mean, he's got a point. Or does he?
By the end of the year some RTX 4070 laptops could be the first non-NPU machines to be given a Microsoft Copilot+ stamp
By Jacob Fox published
News That's a whole load more AI TOPS than in regular NPUs.
Nvidia says its surprisingly high $3.3B gaming revenue is expected to drop but 'not to worry' because next year will be fine *wink* RTX 50-series *wink*
By Jacob Fox published
News Not just an AI company, then.
The Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility in China has a machine that spins so fast it generates 1,900x the Earth's gravity
By Jacob Fox published
News That's not the kind of GeForce I ordered…
Nvidia's new 'AI PC' social media channel has me foaming at the bit for the in-house CPU we all want
By Jacob Fox published
News I am a patient boy, I wait I wait I wait.
Wait, the Steam Controller 2 is in mass production? Someone grab the popcorn because nothing brought out the strong opinions like Valve's first controller
By Jacob Fox published
News A Steam Controller 2 might make more sense today than it did back then.
If you want to get into PC gaming this Black Friday a bargain RTX 4060 system like this one gives a lot of PC for PS5 Pro money
By Jacob Fox published
Deal For just $700 you're getting a well-rounded gaming PC capable of handling modern games.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming keyboard
By Jacob Fox published
Key whizz Keyboards are my favourite gaming gear and here are the things you absolutely need to know about them.
Nvidia tells the US Supreme Court it should dismiss a lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors over crypto
By Jacob Fox published
News Are some people salty they pulled out of investing in Nvidia?
World's biggest PCIe SSD immediately squashed by even bigger and faster PCIe SSD
By Jacob Fox published
News Call that an SSD? THIS is an SSD.
Nvidia's first Arm APU is said to offer Strix Halo and RTX 4070 mobile performance, with Alienware already onboard to create an all-Nvidia gaming laptop
By Jacob Fox published
news Could 2025 be the year of AMD x86 chips vs Nvidia Arm chips?
Micron's introduced the first PCIe 5 60 TB SSD and it could house 375 Stalker 2 installs, or even better, 35,294 Crab Champions installs
By Jacob Fox published
News Yoooo now that's a BIG SSD.
Nvidia's Stalker 2 benchmarks suggest it might be CPU limited, but DLSS 3 looks to make a world of difference at 4K
By Jacob Fox published
News This could mean Lumen instead of ray tracing.
A new math benchmark just dropped and leading AI models can solve 'less than 2%' of its problems... oh dear
By Jacob Fox published
News Womp womp.
I've found the Logitech G502 Lightspeed at its lowest ever price and the best wired gaming mouse for cheaper than it was during October Prime Day
By Jacob Fox published
Three ergonomic gaming mice for three different budgets. What a busy boi I've been.
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