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
It looks like AMD is racing Intel to production of chips on glass substrates for faster, more efficient processors
By Jacob Fox published
News Can we call it Infinity Glass? AMD had better jump on that, pronto.
Dino survival game developer is switching all its servers to AMD 'which experience 100 times fewer crashes compared to Intel' because it's 'only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail'
By Jacob Fox published
News 90% of game crash reports in one investigation came from Intel 13th or 14th Gen CPUs. Ouch.
'Nvidia is slowly becoming the IBM of the AI era' says Jim Keller, perhaps forgetting how short-lived IBM's PC monopoly was
By Jacob Fox published
News Will the ever-inflating AI bubble burst?
Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
By Jacob Fox published
News Mr. Robot eat your heart out. No, wait… Vin Diesel, eat your heart out?
Here's your reminder how close AMD came to financial collapse and just how much we owe to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
By Jacob Fox published
News Do you remember Bulldozer or have you blocked out those dark times, too?
'We have won the war on floppy disks!' Japan finally declares independence from floppy media
By Jacob Fox published
News Good news for Japan, bad news for my nostalgic heart.
Beware: The latest Windows 11 update might just trap you in a boot loop of virtualised doom
By Jacob Fox published
News Thankfully, this should only be a problem for virtualised environments that installed the optional update.
The most popular RTX 40-series GPU on Steam is in a gaming laptop, not a graphics card
By Jacob Fox published
News June's Steam hardware survey shows ever more RTX 4060 laptop gamers.
Ever wondered what your gaming PC is telling the world about you? Here's why your privacy matters and what you can do to protect it
By Jacob Fox published
Privacy matters We PC gamers tend to forget how much of our data is being harvested. Thankfully, there are plenty of easy steps to take to increase privacy while gaming.
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