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

Cyber Monday gaming monitor deals 2024: big screen, OLED, ultrawide, or 4K, it's all here
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday is never really over, the discounts continue right through Cyber Monday and into Cyber Week.

Cyber Monday graphics card deals 2024: Today's best prices on the best GPUs
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is done and dusted for another year, but there are still GPU deals to be found.

Cyber Monday gaming headset deals 2024: giving the gift of great audio this deals season
By Dave James last updated
Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale.

Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals 2024: we've found the best discounts on gaming laptops as Cyber Monday kicks off
By Dave James last updated
The discounts are rolling out for Cyber Monday, and would ya know it's a mix of new and existing Black Friday deals.

I'm serving the best Cyber Monday gaming deals using every second of my near 20 years as a PC gaming tech vet. That's veteran, not veterinarian, btw
By Dave James last updated
Live It's all been leading to this point.

The best Black Friday gaming chair deal is still available on Cyber Monday
By Dave James last updated
Deal The Corsair TC100 Relaxed is enjoying a hefty price cut, even post-Black Friday.

There is only one PC gaming peripheral that needs to be wireless and thankfully there are Cyber Monday wireless gaming headset deals on the three best cans around
By Dave James published
Deal These are PC Gamer's favorite wireless gaming headsets and they're all on offer right now.

You're going to have to work pretty damned hard to convince me there's a better Cyber Monday gaming keyboard deal than the now-$40 keeb I use every day
By Dave James last updated
Deal It's our favorite budget keyboard and it's now cheaper than ever for everyone.

Black Friday PC gaming deals 2024
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday has now passed, but you can be sure there are still a ton of deals still available into the weekend and beyond.

Black Friday gaming PC deals 2024
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday itself might have rushed by, but we're still picking out the best PC deals still available throughout the weekend and into Cyber Monday.

Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2024
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday continues long into the weekend and the gaming monitor deals are still coming in thick and fast.

Black Friday SSD deals 2024
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Black Friday is over for another year but if you're looking for the ultimate storage upgrade, then here are all the best SSD deals still live.

Yes, I'm still picking out the best Black Friday gaming deals throughout the weekend because my near 20-years as a PC tech journo have locked me into this gilded cage
By Dave James last updated
Live You're welcome.

Sadly, the cheapest way to buy an RTX 4090 right now is with this horribly cynical Black Friday GPU deal combo which makes you pay to dispose of an old card Newegg doesn't want anymore
By Nick Evanson last updated
Deal We live in some truly bizarre times.

Look who's back, it's Alienware with the best Black Friday gaming PC deal of the week and the cheapest RTX 4070 Ti Super rig we've found
By Dave James last updated
Deal It was a stellar deal over the October Prime Day sale, and Alienware has resurrected the $600 discount once more.

Velocity Micro Raptor ES40 gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Smol A great compact gaming PC more than able to mix it with the big bois.

Lenovo Legion Tower 5i gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Simple things A great entry-level gaming PC and a solid buy for 1080p gaming.

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor
By Dave James published
Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
By Dave James published
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.

AMD just took the one thing Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs had going for them and slapped it right out of their hands
By Dave James published
News Near 50% higher frame rates AND cooler AND lower power. Ouch.

Nvidia's upgrading GeForce Now's $10 tier with 1440p and Ultrawide resolutions, but the only extra Ultimate users get is a new 100-hour play limit
By Dave James published
news With a market value of well over $3,000,000,000,000, you'd think it could have kept pricing the same without introducing a blanket time limit.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D may have just launched, but AMD doesn't expect an end of life announcement for the old 7800X3D 'anytime in the near future' and 'would expect it in the market for a while'
By Dave James published
The king isn't quite dead, but long live the king.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU review
By Dave James published
Underslung The picking of the best gaming CPU might just be a little more nuanced this time around.
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