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
Acer's just announced a 600 Hz monitor that can surely only be for those with superhuman vision
By Jacob Fox published
News Can such a high refresh rate justify spending significant money on a 1080p TN panel in 2024?
'People can type misinformation into a word processor': Bill Gates hand-waves the problem of AI fakery and focuses on the positives
By Jacob Fox published
AI Fakery Is AI misinformation all a big fuss over nothing, then?
Acer's new gaming laptop concept has a pop-out gamepad that splits into two like a Switch controller
By Jacob Fox last updated
News Just ditch those freaky little speakers and I'm sold.
Couch PC gaming could get a whole load more convenient as Microsoft has started testing a virtual keyboard layout for controllers
By Jacob Fox published
News Only a couple of decades behind consoles, right?
It looks like you won't be able to uninstall Recall, the controversial AI-assisted Windows 11 screen-capping feature, and I can't say I'm too surprised
By Jacob Fox published
News Can you recall a time when annoying Windows features were easy to uninstall? I can't.
It's not the display's fault but 16:10 laptop gaming isn't perfect. Yet nobody wants to hear it, not even my friends and colleagues
By Jacob Fox published
need space Consider this a lesson in self-ostracisation.
AverMedia X'tra Go GC515 review
By Jacob Fox published
Streaming hub An all-in-one recording, streaming, peripheral-ing hub for handhelds.
The latest influx of Intel Arrow Lake rumours make me cautiously hopeful about desktop and mobile processors for a change
By Jacob Fox published
News I'm not getting the confetti out just yet, though.
Cooler Master painted a landscape onto a CPU using thermal paste and the hardware nerd in me can't help but think 'that's way too much'
By Jacob Fox published
News Would slapping a cooler on top be satisfying or heartbreaking?
Nvidia says 'every PC with an RTX is an AI PC' as gaming revenue increases 16% year-on-year for the GPU behemoth
By Jacob Fox published
News Gaming's a small but healthy slice of the Nvidia pie.
MSI's latest BIOS could give AMD Zen 5 yet another performance boost with a 105 W TDP toggle for the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X
By Jacob Fox published
News Forget "fine wine" AMD GPUs, how about "fast-aging fine wine" AMD CPUs?
You can now rent a 'minibrain' for $500 a month and the potential implications are horrifying
By Jacob Fox published
News Once the remit of sci-fi and thought experiments, this is now actual reality.
No need to wait, that AMD CPU performance update is available right now in Windows 23H2, and even Zen 3 and Zen 4 chips should receive a boost
By Jacob Fox published
News If I was running a Ryzen chip I'd be installing this right away.
These AMD Ryzen 7500G and 7300G chips don't officially exist but they're making me wonder why we bother with naming schemes
By Jacob Fox published
News Let's all just make up our own names for CPUs in future, shall we? It'll be just as arbitrary, but more fun.
'I can look and it goes where I want it to': Neuralink participant is using his brain chip to play Counter-Strike 2 with just his mind
By Jacob Fox published
News I'll never not see Neuralink as some kind of sorcery.
AMD admits its chips actually have gaming 'parity' with Intel's 14th Gen, suggests lacklustre Ryzen 9000 performance could be because we're not fiddling with Windows' backend
By Jacob Fox published
News AMD says it's "heard from the community" and has updated its official performance figures for the Ryzen 9000-series.
I can't decide whether I want this AI customer service chatbot Rickrolling users to actually be real… but I'm still here for it
By Jacob Fox published
News Has AI truly gone too far this time?
There might soon be a new go-to cheap gaming CPU as AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D is rumoured to launch early next month
By Jacob Fox published
News Pity the Ryzen 9000-series chips about to be cannibalised by a new gaming-focused last-gen CPU.
AMD's game-tastic next-gen 9000X3D V-Cache CPU spotted on Asus motherboard website
By Jacob Fox published
News CPUs we can actually get excited about? :o
'I'm still amazed that it all came together and actually works': YouTuber spends 14 months building a glorious gaming laptop from desktop parts
By Jacob Fox published
News Seems like too much effort for me, but I'm glad I can lay my eyes upon it.
Someone's already overclocked the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X above 7.4 GHz
By Jacob Fox published
News Damnit, I seem to have misplaced my flask of liquid nitrogen.
Intel sells all its Arm shares, likely raising almost $150 million, AKA peanuts in tech
By Jacob Fox published
News $150 million is silly money, but still quite miniscule in the chip fab bizz.
AMD might give the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X a big post-launch TDP boost in the name of chasing higher performance
By Jacob Fox published
News There's another rumour going round that we're all just about done with the rollercoaster CPU market.
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