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
Nvidia's eyeing up ways to beef up its future AI chips with GPUs on top of GPUs and the power of light
By Jacob Fox published
News That's Nvidia's prediction. Mine is more profits.
Thermaltake Gaming Desk Pegboard (Medium) review
By Jacob Fox published
Tidy This desk attachment can save you space in a smart fashion.
Intel's interim CEO suggests Gelsinger's replacement should have chip fabrication experience, giving a glimmer of hope that Intel foundry could remain
By Jacob Fox published
News Could it be ride or die for Intel's chip fabrication?
Valve's new 'Powered by SteamOS' branding has been unveiled, but it's more about clawing handhelds away from Windows than it is about new desktop Steam Machines
By Jacob Fox published
news Then again, with a Steam Controller 2 potentially around the corner...
'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action
By Jacob Fox published
news The company's also tried to clear up some misconceptions.
'I've been waiting over 4 hours in the cold': Zipcar's Black Friday-related car sharing outage left some users locked out of their rides like leg-using chumps
By Jacob Fox published
News Nothing convenient about that.
Our first 'official' look at the new Lenovo Legion Go S shows that, unlike the original, it should be a bona fide mainstream handheld
By Jacob Fox published
news Can Lenovo retain its unique stamp in this segment?
Hold on to your potatoes because Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's system requirements demand ray tracing you can't disable and an RTX 4090 for highest settings
By Jacob Fox published
News Ray tracing. Why'd it have to be ray tracing?
'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.
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.
Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming PC
By Jacob Fox published
New PC Guide I bought my first gaming PC almost two decades ago, and here are the things I've learnt since then that I think you should know.
The top AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D overclock just hit 7.24 GHz on HWBOT, but also a stable 6.9 GHz that delivers literally thousands of in-game fps
By Jacob Fox last updated
News Who knew moving the cache down below could be such a game-changer?
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