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
Shhhhh, Noctua confirms its first ever decibel-dampening power supply will launch this year
By Jacob Fox published
News The Noctua Edition PSU should be whisper quiet.
Asus has now made it clear if a product sent for repair will be fixed under warranty or if it'll cost ya
By Jacob Fox published
News Let's hope this makes for a more transparent RMA process overall.
Samsung debated selling off its manufacturing arm as 3 nm yields remain low and the chip giant's stock price drops
By Jacob Fox published
news TSMC's keeping the ball rolling but healthy competition would be better.
Windows 11 24H2 is finally here and Microsoft's calling it a 'full OS swap', it's just a shame the new Windows update still has Recall
By Jacob Fox published
News Hey, at least Task Manager is saying MT/s instead of MHz now.
Nvidia's RTX 4060 is THE dominant GPU, boosting its desktop market share by 34% in a single month on Steam's Hardware Survey
By Jacob Fox published
News Caused by budget bargains in the lead-up to the next GPU generation, perhaps?
AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 is out now and hands Radeon gamers a new AI-optimised frame generation option in most games
By Jacob Fox published
News The frame gen tech has finally exited beta.
TeamGroup PD20 mini 2 TB external SSD review
By Jacob Fox published
Zippy The PD20 is so small it might as well be a USB flash drive—except it's much faster.
Best capture cards for PC gaming in 2024: whether it's streaming, recording, 1080p or the big 4K, these cards have you covered
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Broadcast Show off your greatest gaming moments with the best capture cards.
This pied piper mouse lured me in with its promises of complete adjustability but it's very clearly a demon in disguise
By Jacob Fox published
News It might, however, be the ultimate ergonomic peripheral.
AMD's 7800X3D successor is rumoured to launch in October, as leaker claims the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will be the first Zen 5 3D V-Cache CPU to market
By Jacob Fox published
News Even if it's not October, surely 9000-series X3D chips can't be too far off.
Intel CPU crashes: what you need to know—Intel explains the root cause and plans a final microcode fix for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs
By Jacob Fox last updated
Intel issues A fix is here, but only for fresh Intel CPUs that aren't already affected.
Intel has discovered what actually caused its top gaming chips to break and is rolling out another fix
By Jacob Fox published
News Another microcode update to fix Intel stability issues and the wheel keeps on turning.
The new SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds actually fit my weird little ears and if that isn't a glowing endorsement then I don't know what is
By Jacob Fox published
News Oh, and they sound pretty good, too, I guess.
Presumed Battlemage engineering sample suggests there's some hope for Intel's next-gen Arc GPUs in the mid-range
By Jacob Fox published
News There's plenty of headroom for more powerful GPUs in the line-up, too.
This Balrog spacebar is literal fire and has made me realise I need a full set of LOTR keycaps, ASAP
By Jacob Fox published
News This keycap's dark fire would certainly avail me.
The GPU market is back, baby, and it's astonishing 'market watchers who have been predicting its doom for decades'
By Jacob Fox published
News NPUs be damned, give us those sweet, sweet discrete graphics.
I tried SteelSeries' new Hall effect gaming keyboard and I'm genuinely surprised these switches deliver such a satisfying THONK
By Jacob Fox published
News Listen to that thickity thock.
Adata SD810 1 TB external SSD review
By Jacob Fox published
Simply Speedy This portable SSD has no unnecessary frills. It's simple and fast, just the way I like it.
Samsung's just started producing what is effectively its first proper PCIe 5.0 SSD and it's faster than any currently on the market
By Jacob Fox published
News Could this be the start of PCIe 5.0 SSDs that are actually worth it for gaming?
Google finally wins a court case and gets out of a €1.49 billion fine over anti-competitive practices
By Jacob Fox published
News Despite the court agreeing with most of the European Commission's findings.
'Please halt this activity': Not-so-open OpenAI seems to have gone full mob boss, sending threatening emails to anyone who asks its latest AI models probing questions
By Jacob Fox published
News You probably shouldn't use the phrase "reasoning trace" when speaking to o1-preview or o1-mini.
Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs could support up to 10,000 MT/s DDR5 CUDIMM RAM, but that'll be using the Gear 2 setting which is pretty rubbish for gaming
By Jacob Fox published
News Whether great for gaming or not, memory with speeds in the tens of thousands is exciting.
The Steam Deck's rare but troublesome 'loading throbber' issue has been fixed
By Jacob Fox published
News Loading throbbers are here to stay, but that doesn't mean you have to get stuck looking at them.
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