
Dave James
Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
Latest articles by Dave James

Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
By Dave James last updated
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks, just to see which is worth your money.

Cheap graphics card deals this week
By Nick Evanson last updated
Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs you should build into your gaming PC.

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today
By Dave James last updated
Deals We've scoured the internet for the best deals on gaming monitors, so you don't have to.

Amazon October Prime Day gaming laptop deals
By Dave James last updated
Prime Day Deals October Prime Day might have finished but some of its deals are still flowing.

Best cheap gaming laptop deals
By Dave James last updated
Deals Our regularly updated list of all the best gaming laptop deals you'll find today.

Best October Prime Day Deals Live — The best PC gaming hardware deals still live
By Dave James last updated
Prime Day live We're ploughing on through the Big Deal Days sales, and there are still impressive discounts on GPUs, gaming laptops, PCs, SSDs, and monitors.

This remains the best-value gaming laptop deal I've seen over Prime Day and I actually can't believe it's still available to buy
By Dave James published
Deal Egregious memory config cardinal sin aside, this is a great little gaming laptop.

Weirdly, Walmart is one of the best places to shop for Prime Day gaming PC deals
By Dave James published
Prime Day Who woulda thought it?

Secretlab's new InfinitePrecision pro-gamer armrests aren't what I thought they were going to be. Nor as precise as I expected
By Dave James published
Precisely why? I can't help but feel this is more pro-gamer placebo than anything else.

This is all the best PC gaming gear we recommend in one techie tier list
By Dave James last updated
The guide Here are PC Gamer's hardware picks, based on years of experience and expert knowledge, all in an easily digestible but admittedly big ol' list.

Best gaming laptop 2025: I've had my hands on the best laptops for gaming of this generation and these are the ones I recommend
By Dave James last updated
Portable powerhouses From our own extensive testing, rigorously benchmarking 40+ machines over the past two years, these are the best gaming laptops you can buy today.

With AI datacenters gobbling up all the memory, a 2 TB SSD deal for just 4.5₵ per GB might not make it to Black Friday
By Dave James published
Deal Get 'em while they're vaguely affordable.

Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
By Dave James last updated
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.

Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
By Dave James last updated
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.

Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
By Dave James last updated
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.

Multi-button gaming mice aren't just for MMOs as Corsair's latest rodent shows, knocking Razer off its historic perch as best MMO gaming mouse
By Dave James published
So. Many. Buttons The Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE isn't just a pretty facia of many, many buttons.

Best 4K gaming monitors in 2025: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend
By Dave James last updated
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.

Best CPU for gaming in 2025: These are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC
By Dave James published
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Of all that's wireless in this gaming life, gaming keyboards aren't just entirely pointless they're [expletive deleted] annoying
By Dave James published
Wires Nope, you won't convince me this is a worthwhile thing. Wires are fine.

Humanscale Freedom Chair with Headrest review
By Dave James published
Score: 81% An almost ludicrously expensive chair for those with discerning tastes. And spines.

Cheap graphics card deals this week
By Nick Evanson last updated
Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best prices for all the best graphics cards you should fit into your gaming PC.

Best graphics card for laptops in 2025: the mobile GPUs I'd want in my next gaming laptop
By Dave James last updated
Go mobile Helping you pick the right graphics silicon for your next laptop purchase.
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