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

Intel says 'demand for Arc B580 graphics cards is high' but the GPU should be restocked every week
By Jacob Fox published
News Probably because we've been starved of genuine budget value for so long.

Jen-Hsun Huang might be 'Taylor Swift but for tech', but did you know he was once praised in Sports Illustrated as being 'perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest'?
By Jacob Fox published
News A dab hand at both paddles and wafers, is Huang.

Some high-stakes poker players are cheating with an earpiece that's 'so small that you can’t take it off with your fingers' and looks like a 'James Bond movie device'
By Jacob Fox published
news Sit 'em at a table with Phil Hellmuth and Tony G, I'll watch.

Firefox is getting rid of its 'Do Not Track' setting and what it's being replaced with is a bit of a bait and switch for privacy concerns
By Jacob Fox published
News Is asking not to sell data the same as asking not to track it?

Pat Gelsinger rallies against claims some chipmakers are struggling to produce good wafers: anyone using yields as a % 'doesn't understand semiconductor yield'
By Jacob Fox published
News It's all about the defect density.

Anti-Nvidia crypto lawsuit will go ahead despite Nvidia's appeal, US Supreme Court rules
By Jacob Fox published
news But with its coffers overflowing, will Nvidia care?

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.
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