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
How to add DLSS and Frame Generation to Starfield
By Dave James last updated
Upmarket upscaling As well as whether you should...
Best CPU coolers: I've loaded these AIO and air coolers onto today's top CPUs
By Dave James last updated
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 in 2025
By Abigail Shannon last updated
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.
The 11 Prime Day PC gaming deals that have been the most popular with you fine PC Gamer readers
By Dave James published
Prime Day Crunching the numbers and parsing the data, we've finally figured out what it is you lot like: a lot of headsets, 4K monitors, and gaming chairs. And, of course, the best gaming laptop.
Inexplicably Best Buy has slashed the price of this RTX 4070 Blade 14 AGAIN. With a $1,000 discount this Prime Day Razer gaming laptop deal is surprisingly competitive
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Prime Day A Blade that's actually not at a price premium compared with similarly specced laptops? What timeline is this?
I've been gaming with the Audeze Maxwell solidly for over a year and there is no better-sounding gaming headset deal I could recommend
By Dave James published
Prime Day The planar magnetic drivers deliver simply stunning audio, whether for gaming or music.
If you want to go all Corsair, all the time, it's slapped $600 off Vengeance systems in the Prime Day gaming PC sale
By Dave James published
Prime Day The Vengeance range of are not the cheapest, but they've been our go-to recommendation for high-end prebuilt PCs for an age.
Fight me: 14-inch is peak gaming laptop and these are the only Prime Day gaming laptop deals I'd personally consider buying today
By Dave James published
Prime Day If I'm buying a gaming laptop it's because I want something portable and for me only the 14-inch form factor truly delivers.
I'm a little obsessed with the Razer Blade laptops and these latest Prime Day gaming deals are painfully tempting
By Dave James published
Prime Day It's the cheapest we've seen the gorgeous Blade 15 going for.
Here's your reminder that the best RTX 4080 gaming laptop is still the best Prime Day gaming laptop deal too
By Dave James published
Prime Day The RTX 4080-toting Legion Pro 7i may have a last-gen Intel chip inside it, but its powerful GPU is right up there with the best.
My favorite compact enthusiast gaming keyboard—and the one I use every single day—is a Prime Day bargain
By Dave James published
Prime Day The Mountain Everest 60 may not have the caché of Logitech, Keychron, or Razer, but this hot-swappable keeb is a stunner.
The Tony Blair Insitute 'did not simply ask ChatGPT for the results' of its AI impact report, it trained its own version of ChatGPT instead
By Andy Edser last updated
news If there's one thing I trust, its AI predictions. Said nobody ever.
When you've got gaming laptops for $599 and PCs for $699, Walmart is weirdly the best place for pre-Prime Day PC gaming deals
By Dave James published
deal Never thought I'd be saying that.
The latest Windows update means Notepad might now be my favourite word processor
By Dave James published
news Having not really been updated since 1983, Notepad is getting rich features without losing its essence.
This mighty Mac Mini-a-like from Geekom is packed to the gills with tech and is $120 off with our discount code
By Dave James published
deal The Geekom A7 is no barebones and sports AMD's finest iGPU, delivering outstanding mini PC gaming performance.
It's been a frustrating 18 months since launch but we'll finally be getting PCIe 5 SSDs worth a damn this year
By Dave James published
news SiliconMotion's new controller is finally ready to roll out to SSD makers.
Nvidia loses $500 billion in the biggest short term loss in company value in all of recorded history. A year ago that would have killed it yet today it will barely notice
By Dave James published
news After briefly becoming the world's most valuable company Nvidia has now experienced the biggest three-day loss in value of any company ever.
Best Buy has jumped the gun on Amazon Prime Day by launching its Member Deals Days and here are four good reasons to avoid it
By Dave James published
news All the retailers are keen for your cash, but ideally, I'd want them to put in more effort than Best Buy.
Emulation proves the inevitable Achilles' Heel of Qualcomm's new PC chips when it comes to gaming
By Dave James published
news In a result that should shock no one, gaming performance comes off worst in the world of x86 emulation.
Unprecedented memory, frame rate boosting eye tracking features, and an ambitious ethos: In a surprising twist Adata had the most interesting handheld gaming PC at Computex 2024
By Dave James published
news Bet you didn't see that coming.
Gigabyte's 'Next-gen' Intel motherboard shows off the new Arrow Lake CPU socket for the first time alongside AMD's X870E
By Dave James published
news Gigabyte had both new AMD and Intel boards in its VIP suite, and also marked the return of its Project Stealth design.
Qualcomm's new Windows PC chip supports AMD's FSR… and I'm not sure AMD had any idea about it
By Dave James published
new The new Snapdragon X Elite processors, the vanguard for the AI PC boom, makes great use of the red team's upscaler.
NZXT's doing something that makes so much damned sense I don't know why it's not been done before
By Dave James published
news Yet there are still niggling fears of being first to market with something no-one has done before.
Drop wins the most satisfying sound of Computex 2024 award with its 24 carat brass keeb frame
By Dave James published
news The Drop CSTM80 is getting a whole load more customisation options soon.
The reason Framework laptops just keep getting better: 'We're blind to none of the feedback and we absorb it all'
By Dave James published
news And when it comes to the AI PC trend, Framework wants to "make sure that there are as many options as possible and we will continue to scope out new partnerships."
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