
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

Apparently a new 'advanced' Zotac Zone will be announced at Computex and it looks like it might use a bespoke Linux OS
By Jacob Fox published
News Could this be the year of Linux for gaming?

The latest Nvidia driver lets you run ancient CPUs in Windows again without crashing
By Jacob Fox published
News Now you can get that cursed PC build up and running.

Here's how long it would take 12 RTX 5090 GPUs to crack your password… and a reminder that just adding more characters still works
By Jacob Fox last updated
News Try to go for 18 characters or more.

I never thought I'd say this about Alienware but its new Aurora laptops show we're truly in the sleek and smart era
By Jacob Fox published
News Does that mean 'stylish' or 'boring' to you?

One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China
By Jacob Fox published
News Very James Bond, I like it.

Leaked pics of a supposed Asus ROG Ally 2 show an Xbox-branded handheld gaming PC that is very peculiar to behold
By Jacob Fox published
News It's like... one foot in the PlayStation Portal camp, the other in the normal one.

Nvidia and MediaTek rumoured to announce new Windows on Arm laptop chips at Computex 2025
By Jacob Fox published
Computex The show kicks off in a few weeks, so AMD APUs could have stiff competition very soon.

I feel like I can finally say we're at a point where buying new PC gaming gear doesn't mean settling for less
By Jacob Fox published
We did it Poor quality products haven't disappeared, but gaming going mainstream has raised all boats.

The RX 9060 XT rumour mill flip-flops again: we shall have an 8 GB version of AMD's card after all
By Jacob Fox published
News Hopefully at a reasonable price point.

LG's new 'Hybrid Tandem' tech apparently solves the blue light problem which could mean near-flawless OLED gaming monitors
By Jacob Fox published
News Here's hoping, anyway.

'China is right behind us': Jensen Huang says we need to 'accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world'
By Jacob Fox published
News Is more exports or less exports in the American interest?

Intel is trying out on-chip water cooling too and I'm just happy I'm not the one having to place liquids so close to expensive electronics
By Jacob Fox published
News Leave it to the engineers. And the YouTube DIY'ers.

Looks like the first RTX 5060 laptop benchmark results are in and show pretty much what we expected
By Jacob Fox published
News Hopefully as efficient as some other RTX 50-series laptops we've seen.

A little power management goes a long way in the latest Intel drivers giving a free 10% fps boost to the MSI Claw AI+ handheld and any other Lunar Lake device
By Jacob Fox published
News And an average increase of 25% in 1% Low FPS, though only at 17 W or lower.

Chipmaker TSMC's new A14 process will apparently offer a '15% speed improvement' but our GPUs won't be made on it for a while
By Jacob Fox published
News I wonder what the GPU market will be like in 2028...

Good news for Intel Core Ultra 200S gamers: some major gaming PC builders say the new Boost profile won't void your warranty
By Jacob Fox published
News Even more reason to turn on that Boost profile.

This water block has teeny tiny fins to better cool your CPU and is meant to be slapped right on top of your silicon
By Jacob Fox published
News I don't know about you, but I'm keeping my CPU firmly lidded.

Anyone can now make plugins for Nvidia's promising G-Assist AI overlay, with options available for Spotify, Twitch, and more
By Jacob Fox published
News Must... not... praise... the... AI...

Thermal imaging seems to show there are 'weak point' hot spots in some RTX 50-series graphics cards
By Jacob Fox published
News But don't worry about your graphics card melting just yet

Intel has released a free 'performance boost for low-latency workloads like gaming' for Core Ultra 200S processors
By Jacob Fox published
News Could *this* be the BIOS update to make Arrow Lake worth it for gaming?

US-made chip prices could soar if the rumour that TSMC might charge 'as much as 30%' more for its Arizona chips pans out
By Jacob Fox published
News So tariffs on foreign chips and hiked prices on domestic ones?

This single-fan RTX 5060 Ti has me *this* close to upgrading
By Jacob Fox published
News And I don't even care much for Frame Generation.

The latest rumoured AMD Ryzen Z2 processor could be used in cheap SteamOS handhelds
By Jacob Fox published
News The Steam Deck's 'Van Gogh' APU to hit the open market?
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