
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

SteelSeries Rival 3 Gen 2 Wireless review
By Jacob Fox last updated
Score: 66% Great battery life isn't enough to turn my opinion here.

This is not an Xbox 360, it's a gaming PC in disguise
By Jacob Fox published
News Featuring an RTX 40 card and X3D chip, not bad at all.

Razer claims optical gaming keyboards are more precise than Hall effect ones because magnets are 'hard to control'
By Jacob Fox published
News I struggle to tell the difference myself.

Windows on Arm gamers will be able to download Xbox app games locally but cloud gaming might still be a better option
By Jacob Fox published
News Getting ready for those Nvidia Arm chips?

'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.

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.

'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.
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