
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

'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years
By Jacob Fox published
News Coding onto paper and punch cards.

Fear not, potato gamers, the RuneScape Dragonwilds system requirements are pretty light and hallelujah for a new UE5 game that doesn't require ray tracing
By Jacob Fox published
News Just 25 GB of storage is required, too.

Companies are selling cheap faux leather 'Jensen Huang' jackets and some of the listings are hilarious
By Jacob Fox published
News When the edifice of consumerism crumbles, we will stand and smile.

You can pick up the 2 TB version of my favorite budget external SSD for less than $0.06 per GB, transfers 300+ GB of data in 6 minutes
By Jacob Fox published
Deal That's about as cheap as they come, pound for poun– er, GB for GB.

The Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro is as cheap as I've ever seen it and it's even cheaper than the cut-back HyperSpeed version
By Jacob Fox published
Deal For this price, this is the gaming mouse I'd pick up right now if I were in the market.

Logitech G PowerPlay 2 review
By Jacob Fox published
Lotta dosh A downgrade over the first version in almost every way.

Getting Half-Life 2 to work on 8 MB of VRAM means turning it into an eerily befitting voidscape: 'there were absolutely no effects left'
By Jacob Fox published
News The Anti-Mass Spectrometer's gone amok again, hasn't it.

'There might be a party. I wasn't invited,' says Jensen Huang of the rumoured TSMC proposal to join forces and run Intel's chip fabs
By Jacob Fox published
News Throwing doubt on rumours of TSMC's multi-company proposal.

Nvidia confirms 'open issue' with Varjo Aero VR headsets and RTX 50-series graphics cards after affected users ask for help
By Jacob Fox published
News Hopefully a fix is in the works.

Nvidia has cut the MSRP of RTX 50-series FE cards in the UK and Europe and that means... not a whole lot right now
By Jacob Fox published
News Talk to me when these numbers actually refer to something.

Microsoft is finally rolling out its controller-friendly virtual keyboard for a better Windows handheld gaming PC experience
By Jacob Fox published
News It's part of the latest Insider Preview build, but soon to roll out fully.

Remember those fiddly screw-locks for VGA and DVI-D? Bet you didn't know USB-C also has them
By Jacob Fox published
News What is dead may never die.

This Redditor rocked up to Best Buy and bought an RTX 4060 gaming PC for cheaper than its extended warranty, saving $1,195 and their friend from buying a console
By Jacob Fox published
News That's the sound of a thousand "congratulations" through gritted teeth.

Lenovo Legion Go S (Windows) review
By Jacob Fox published
Better... but worse?... Gorgeous and comfortable, this handheld has unfortunately had its internals stripped back.

The DeathAdder V3 Pro is currently so cheap it's put the usually more affordable HyperSpeed version out of a job
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Gimme that curvy hand skater in its most powerful form.

SteelSeries QcK Performance mouse pad review
By Jacob Fox published
Smooth as butter Top-notch competitive gaming performance for a price.

AI will be crammed in more of the graphics pipeline as Nvidia and Microsoft are bringing AI shading to a DirectX preview next month
By Jacob Fox published
News Neural rendering might be the name of the game in future.

Looks like a reference design AMD RX 9070 XT card has shown up in China, but let's not get carried away with thoughts of MBA cards just yet
By Jacob Fox published
News Looks like an engineering sample.

'This is essentially a fraudulent project': Some scientists are firing shots at Microsoft's recent quantum computing claims
By Jacob Fox published
News Major majorana disputes, here.

XFX is letting you add customisable 3D printed wings to its Quicksilver RX 9070-series graphics cards
By Jacob Fox published
News It's even okay with you selling your RX 9070 Quicksilver mods.

Some Sapphire RX 9070/9070 XT graphics cards have hard-to-spot foam inside that must be removed or it 'may result in a decrease in cooling capacity or product failure'
By Jacob Fox published
News No logo on the foam.

The SteelSeries QcK Performance series has reignited my excitement over the simple pleasure of a quality mouse pad… and trying to click skulls with pinpoint accuracy
By Jacob Fox published
Premium glide Time to party like it's 2012 and pretend I don't have an old man's reaction time.

Screw waiting for GPU restocks, with an AMD RX 9070 gaming PC going for as cheap as this I'd hop on the pre-built bandwagon
By Jacob Fox published
Deal You might want to upgrade that RAM and storage, though.

AMD Radeon RX 9070-series launch day live: The promise of a ton of reference priced stock is a tantalising one but likely won't last long
By Jacob Fox last updated
Live! AMD's impressive new cards are out today, and have had since January to shore up stock in the channel, and we'll be keeping an eye on how that pans out.
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