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
This RTX 4090 Alienware gaming PC is $1,000 off for Prime Day and skimps in precisely zero areas
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day deals 64 GB of RAM and Alienware's crisp new aesthetic.
If I have $100 to spend this October Prime Day, these are the PC gaming deals I'm going for—my favorite discounts for tight budgets
By Jacob Fox last updated
Prime Day deals There are plenty of cheap deals here, from mice and headsets to RAM, monitors, and much more.
Samsung's most durable 4 TB external SSD costs less than $0.06 per GB this Prime Day
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day deals Rugged, stylish, and plenty speedy. Now at a bargain price, too.
I'm genuinely flabbergasted: This RTX 4070 Super gaming PC is cheaper than budget 4060 Ti gaming PCs this Prime Day
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day deals Not the greatest CPU or RAM, but for this price for this GPU, who cares?
This external SSD rated to 2,000 MB/s is as affordable as some only half as fast for Prime Day
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day deals Yep, that's $0.07 per GB for a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 drive.
The cheapest RTX 4070 gaming PC deal this October Prime Day is on Newegg, not Amazon
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day deals The ever-tantalising Yeyian Tanto just got even tastier.
Samsung T9 4 TB external SSD review
By Jacob Fox published
Rugged rubber Fantastic quality, great sustained speeds, and a premium rugged casing.
Gaming keyboards are becoming more like enthusiast keyboards and I can't wait to have my clicky clacky cake and eat it
By Jacob Fox published
QWERTY HURTY Can we end up with the best of both worlds?
Shhhhh, Noctua confirms its first ever decibel-dampening power supply will launch this year
By Jacob Fox published
News The Noctua Edition PSU should be whisper quiet.
Asus has now made it clear if a product sent for repair will be fixed under warranty or if it'll cost ya
By Jacob Fox published
News Let's hope this makes for a more transparent RMA process overall.
Samsung debated selling off its manufacturing arm as 3 nm yields remain low and the chip giant's stock price drops
By Jacob Fox published
news TSMC's keeping the ball rolling but healthy competition would be better.
Windows 11 24H2 is finally here and Microsoft's calling it a 'full OS swap', it's just a shame the new Windows update still has Recall
By Jacob Fox published
News Hey, at least Task Manager is saying MT/s instead of MHz now.
Nvidia's RTX 4060 is THE dominant GPU, boosting its desktop market share by 34% in a single month on Steam's Hardware Survey
By Jacob Fox published
News Caused by budget bargains in the lead-up to the next GPU generation, perhaps?
AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 is out now and hands Radeon gamers a new AI-optimised frame generation option in most games
By Jacob Fox published
News The frame gen tech has finally exited beta.
I'd buy this budget SSD for my next-gen build... if I hadn't already bought one before it got so cheap
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Whether you're upgrading to Zen 5, Arrow Lake, or Blackwell, the Lexar NM790 will make an ideal companion.
TeamGroup PD20 mini 2 TB external SSD review
By Jacob Fox published
Zippy The PD20 is so small it might as well be a USB flash drive—except it's much faster.
Best capture cards for PC gaming in 2024: whether it's streaming, recording, 1080p or the big 4K, these cards have you covered
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Broadcast Show off your greatest gaming moments with the best capture cards.
This pied piper mouse lured me in with its promises of complete adjustability but it's very clearly a demon in disguise
By Jacob Fox published
News It might, however, be the ultimate ergonomic peripheral.
AMD's 7800X3D successor is rumoured to launch in October, as leaker claims the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will be the first Zen 5 3D V-Cache CPU to market
By Jacob Fox published
News Even if it's not October, surely 9000-series X3D chips can't be too far off.
Intel CPU crashes: what you need to know—Intel explains the root cause and plans a final microcode fix for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs
By Jacob Fox last updated
Intel issues A fix is here, but only for fresh Intel CPUs that aren't already affected.
Intel has discovered what actually caused its top gaming chips to break and is rolling out another fix
By Jacob Fox published
News Another microcode update to fix Intel stability issues and the wheel keeps on turning.
The new SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds actually fit my weird little ears and if that isn't a glowing endorsement then I don't know what is
By Jacob Fox published
News Oh, and they sound pretty good, too, I guess.
Presumed Battlemage engineering sample suggests there's some hope for Intel's next-gen Arc GPUs in the mid-range
By Jacob Fox published
News There's plenty of headroom for more powerful GPUs in the line-up, too.
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