
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 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

'You've got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI': Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming
By Jacob Fox published
News And maybe we're all in the mind of another AI, howaboutthat?

Between pained cries, the YouTuber who made this 'neuromuscular aim assist' that shocks his muscles for fast Counter-Strike 2 reactions insists it's 'not cheats'
By Jacob Fox published
News Has science finally gone too far?

The first RX 9060 benchmarks show the non-XT AMD GPU going toe to toe with the RTX 5060
By Jacob Fox published
News All that's left is to make the new GPU actually available. Pretty please?

'I don't know what it means to have a Manhattan Project for AI': Nuclear war experts remind us of the frightening risks of our artificial intelligence controlling our nukes
By Jacob Fox published
News These are just risks from known unknowns, what about unknown unknowns?

After saying he should resign 'immediately', President Trump changes his mind about Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and calls his 'success and rise' an 'amazing story', looks forward to fixes for Intel's foundry
By Jacob Fox published
News You're fired. You're hired.

Oh cool, we've got screens on SSD coolers now. For reals. I wonder what they'll slap one on next
By Jacob Fox published
News I vote the motherboard backplate.

The Steam performance overlay will finally show CPU temps but it will require kernel access to do so
By Jacob Fox published
News You can disable it if you want, though.

Gigabyte's Back to School sale has the lowest price RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 gaming laptops I've seen
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Ideal for 'studying.'

Asus TUF A14 (2025) gaming laptop review
By Jacob Fox published
Score: 89% Surprisingly great performance from this sleek 14-inch machine.

The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 chip in the laptop I've been testing just scored over 1,000,000 in Cinebench, breaking space and time and sending me whirling around my room like a nut in a blender
By Jacob Fox published
News I'm typing this from the astral plane.

Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment
By Jacob Fox published
Luddites unite I know that sounds bonkers, but just hear me out.

RTX 5060 Ti gaming PCs are finally starting to approach actual budget prices and for $200 off this is the one I'd pick from the bunch
By Jacob Fox published
Deal In a dinky li'l chassis, too.

'I do not subscribe to the belief that if you build it, they will come' says Intel's new CEO, calling past investments 'unwise and excessive'
By Jacob Fox published
News Putting a stop to Gelsinger's 'bet it all' strategy.

'Gaslight-driven development': ChatGPT was convinced this app had a feature it didn't, so the devs decided to add it in anyway
By Jacob Fox published
News A productive hallucination, then?

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su says she can see AI 'helping us design the next-generation GPU much faster and more reliably'
By Jacob Fox published
News I'm not sure what chip architects and engineers think about this.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls Trump 'America's unique advantage' because he's ramping up US energy
By Jacob Fox published
News More energy means more AI 'factories'.

Qi2 wireless charging to go from 15 to 25 W, helping fast charge devices to actually charge fast
By Jacob Fox published
News I'm all for fewer cables.

Some gamers are angry that Battlefield 6 is likely going to require Secure Boot but most shouldn't have any issues at all
By Jacob Fox published
News Most gamers will be fine leaving the setting enabled.

Endgame Gear confirms it had malware-compromised mouse software on its official site but promises changes to prevent it happening again
By Jacob Fox last updated
News Packaged for a while with the Endgame Gear OP1w 4K V2 configuration tool.

The reason Nvidia's upcoming Arm CPU is delayed is apparently in part because Microsoft isn't sorting out its next-gen OS quickly enough
By Jacob Fox published
News Windows on Arm causing issues? Well, I never.

This keyboard looks like it's been plucked straight from Half-Life 1 with how well it replicates low-res classic game textures
By Jacob Fox published
News Gimme.

A crypto wallet browser extension has been quietly wearing out some user SSDs at a rate of 5 MB/s: 'That's about 500 GB per day!'
By Jacob Fox published
News Or upwards of 175 TB per year.

Musk saying 'game on' to AI and creating a Baby Grok for kids makes me miss 'in denial' Elon, when he was oracle of the impending AI apocalypse
By Jacob Fox published
News Come on mate, AI ain't cool, get back to your rockets.
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