Latest articles by Dave James
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU review
Underslung The picking of the best gaming CPU might just be a little more nuanced this time around.
Lemokey G1 wireless gaming mouse review
Little squeaker A very Keychron wireless gaming mouse: Affordable, simple, and feature-rich.
Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Edition gaming chair review
Peak Secretlab What price unprecedented comfort?
The bloated tyranny of two-factor authentication is ruining my online existence. There has to be a better way
Who am I? Why won't you remember me?!
The best gaming projectors: These are the beamers I'd use for my home gaming theatre
Beam me up Bigger and more portable than monitors, grab one of these projectors for the ultimate home gaming experience.
Asus TUF A14 gaming laptop review
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | Nvidia RTX 4060 (100 W) | 16 GB LPDDR5x-7500 | 1 TB SSD | $1499 | £1479
Best PC joysticks: these are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.
Valve says its 'not really fair to your customers' to create yearly iterations of something like the Steam Deck, instead it's waiting 'for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life'
News Valve may not be creating yearly iterations of the Steam Deck, but it's having to give the same answer every year.
AMD's spoiling Intel's Arrow Lake party with Ryzen 9000-series price cuts and the promise of 'next-gen gaming' X3D chips arriving November 7
Kicking a lump of silicon while it's down.
Amazon Big Deal Days 2024 PC gaming deals in Australia: the sale is over, but discounts remain on keyboards, mice, headsets, controllers and more
Prime Day Deals This year's second Prime Day has been and gone but, inexplicably, deals remain.
There's a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers
Gen-Hsun? The current stream of gen-AI game videos teases a future where the rendering power of your GPU barely matters, it's the built-in AI chops which matter.
The latest Nvidia RTX 5090 specs rumour makes the ol' RTX 4090 look like a goddam clown card
news Who's going to buy a new GPU for the rest of the year with these things looming large?
The holy THOCK of Awekeys' Full Metal Keycaps cannot make up for the fact that I'm a terrible typist
Fully🤘Metal They're all metal, all the time. But the blank set has frustrated me, and the premium price is hard to swallow despite their utterly premium feel.
Dezctop Bifrost Elite 160 gaming desk review
Stay Frosty A sturdy standing desk, but it's got a fight on its hands trying to topple Secretlab's mighty Magnus.
Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node
news The Intel 20A process seems like it's going to go down in history as purely a test platform for backside power and GAAFET.
Gaming laptops on sale: top Australian deals in January 2025
Deals A running list of the best gaming laptop discounts and deals from across Australia, updated regularly.
No other laptop maker would let me cannibalise the best bit of its new machine the way Framework does and that's a damned shame
🦄 The new Framework laptop display is exactly why I love its products.
Framework 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) laptop review
Step back Lots of improvements, but fundamentally a weaker proposition than the Ryzen mainboard.
New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added
news "Added support for extra ROG Ally keys" is music to my ears.
How to add DLSS and Frame Generation to Starfield
Upmarket upscaling As well as whether you should...
Best CPU coolers: I've loaded these AIO and air coolers onto today's top CPUs
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
Best VPN for gaming
Stealth Mode Prevent DDoS attacks, secure your devices, boost your speed, and get games for bargain prices – all with a gaming VPN. Here are my top picks.
