Latest articles by Dave James
Looks like Nvidia has effectively cut the RTX 4070 price to $550 in response to the RX 7800 XT
news With so many retailers and manufacturers suddenly dropping the card to $550 it's hard to believe it's not somehow incentivised by Nvidia.
Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill
News "Since Right to Repair can pass here, expect it to be on its way to a backyard near you," says iFixit CEO.
Bethesda says Nvidia DLSS support will come to Starfield in a 'regular interval of updates that have top community requested features'
News Included in the patch notes of today's "small hotfix" is a list of top community requested features.
AMD says it's aware of Starfield's Ain't No Sunshine bug but currently has no timeline for a fix
news But is also keen to point out that older GeForce GPUs, from at least the GTX 10-series down, are also suffering.
Intel predicts 'a resurgence' of external GPUs because of Thunderbolt 5's huge bandwidth increase
news It's being classed as "the best version for creators and gamers."
I never wanted the RTX 3090 Super but I'm gutted to miss out on the cancelled prototype's stealthy all-black aesthetic
news The 'Super' tag was too on the nose, but this sleek shroud has got to be revisited.
Kurt Cobain's $20 headphones have been bought for $70,000
news It's more about history than audio quality.
Got a weird PC project in mind? Framework uncovered a hoard of old mainboards in an old factory and is selling them off cheap
news The perfect base for any weird and/or wonderful custom PC build.
Okay game marketing, you win this round because this custom Starfield PC is stunning
news So, turns out I'm a complete sucker for marketing.
Nintendo Switch 2 reportedly uses Nvidia's DLSS to boost frame rates
News Behind closed doors developer demo of the upcoming hardware at Gamescom highlights Nvidia hardware.
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT review
Upper mid A multi-chip RX 6800 XT for less and the best $500 GPU around.
Intel's new Starfield GPU driver hotfix still has a host of problems
News The new driver sorts out Starfield load times, and some instability and texture issues, but admits there is still work to be done.
So, guess I'm building my next gaming PC from Colorful's new MEOW range then
news You might even say I'm feline this new range. I'm not even sorry.
The Ayaneo Kun has a mode that delivers near twice the power of the ROG Ally handheld gaming PC
News At 54W, the big boi of handheld gaming PCs is going to feature the most extreme docked mode of any such device.
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D hands-on testing: So, I guess AMD just makes all the best mobile chips now
V V V cache The red team has brought its X3D CPU technology to the gaming laptop and honestly it slaps.
The inevitable Half-Life 2 RTX remix is being made without Valve
News Nvidia's calling it "the most comprehensive graphical remaster of Half-Life 2" and is working with the modding community to make it happen.
Nvidia's imminent DLSS 3.5 update will improve ray tracing and performance across all RTX GPUs
news Bringing AI to bear on those noisy traced rays.
Starfield's preload files suggest there is no sign of DLSS or XeSS support amid AMD sponsorship
news Someone's dug through the initial files and folders and this is certainly going to upset a large part of the internet.
Sorry, how many chiplets were AMD trying to jam into that cancelled next-gen GPU?!
news The reported high-end Navi 4C GPU has leaked now it's been canned and, boy, was it WAY more complex than the Navi 31 chip in the RX 7900 XTX.
Nvidia's allegedly cutting desktop GPU supply in favor of gaming laptop chips
news But don't believe any scaremongering about an imminent graphics card supply crisis used to maintain pricing. If anything, prices could still go down.
ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 years
news Close your laptop lid and open it 1,000 years later to carry on your Baldur's Gate 3 save as if nothing had happened.
Intel's next-gen CPUs could deliver a 75% increase in L2 cache, which would be big news for gamers
news If a Core i9 15900K tips up with eight Performance cores and 32 Efficient cores, we're looking at potentially 56MB of L2 cache. At least.
