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
There's one thing gaming laptops need to learn from Valve, Lenovo, and Ayaneo handhelds: Trust us
By Dave James published
Take the power back The level of granular control over the hardware inside modern handheld gaming PCs is a million miles away from that available to gaming laptops.
Asus TUF Gaming RTX 4080 Super review
By Dave James published
Why pay more? If you can't get your hands on a Founders Edition, Asus' MSRP TUF boi is an excellent alternative.
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition review
By Dave James published
RTX Rehab With the same performance, but a $200 haircut, the RTX 4080 Super is a necessary rehabilitation of the maligned RTX 4080.
Framework 16 modular gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
💕 You're buying for the promise, not the performance. But when the potential is this damned enticing it's hard to resist.
MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super Ventus 3X review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Superseder A solid upgrade with a superior spec, but there's an asterisk.
The best PC cases in 2024: These are the chassis I'd use for my next gaming builds
By Dave James last updated
Best Case You'll want the best PC case if you're building your perfect gaming PC.
PNY RTX 4070 Super XLR8 review
By Dave James published
OC? A quality GPU but more proof, if any more were needed, of the irrelevance of factory overclocked graphics cards.
I wish Nvidia had been brave enough to kill the RTX 4070
By Dave James published
Courage/convictions The new RTX 4070 Super is a quality GPU, getting close to RTX 4070 Ti performance, but suffers because Nvidia has kept the RTX 4070 alive.
Nvidia RTX 4070 Super review
By Dave James published
Suped up A healthy GPU upgrade delivering RTX 3080 Ti beating gaming performance for half the power.
XGIMI Horizon Ultra projector review
By Dave James published
Bright boi This super-bright beamer delivers a stunning 4K HDR image and excels in gaming.
AMD's any-game frame generation tech is officially launching out of beta with the RX 7600 XT release on January 24
By Dave James published
CES 2024 Hidden in the CES 2024 press deck are details of the imminent release of AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) into the official Radeon driver stack.
AMD has finally brought software-based frame generation to handheld gaming PCs and the Radeon 700M iGPUs
By Dave James published
news The latest AMD Fluid Motion Frames preview driver lists support for the integrated GPU found in both its best mobile chips and the new Ryzen 8000G APUs.
CES 2024 rings the death knell for the best gaming laptop of the past decade: the ol' Razer Blade 15
By Dave James published
CES 2024 New Blade 14, 16, and 18 machines, but there's no new hardware refresh for the old hero.
The Founders Editions of the new Super series are the best Nvidia's cards have ever looked
By Dave James published
Stealthy If nothing else, the new RTX 4070 Super is a beautiful little thing, and could be the perfect GPU for a no RGB stealth build.
The $999 RTX 4080 Super feels like a tacit admission Nvidia over-reached on the original Ada pricing
By Dave James published
Admission The $1,200 price tag of the RTX 4080 always seemed too high, and with the Super version's $200 haircut, it feels like Nvidia's copped to it.
Nvidia's officially announced the three RTX 40-series Super cards, with either a $200 price cut or a decent performance boost
By Dave James published
CES 2024 It's not like we didn't know they were coming, eh?
Watch the Nvidia CES 2024 livestream right here: It's about to get Super interesting
By Dave James published
CES 2024 The worst-kept secret in PC gaming hardware is expected to be unveiled at the Nvidia Special Address today: 8am PT/11am ET, and 4pm UK time.
Watch the AMD CES 2024 livestream right here: new APUs, GPUs, and 3D chips expected
By Dave James published
CES 2024 AMD's Advancing AI PCs in 2024 event is streaming from 7am PT/10am ET, and 3pm UK time.
NY Times lawsuit holds OpenAI and Microsoft 'responsible for the billions of dollars they owe for the unlawful copying and use of The Times's uniquely valuable works'
By Dave James published
news OpenAI values high-quality content in its training and The New York Times has been marked as such in the creation of its models.
It's only a few days into 2024 and Razer's already dropping a couple of 'world's firsts' ahead of CES
By Dave James published
news It's new OLED and 4K gaming laptop screens look the business.
The best UPS battery backup for PC gaming in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Amped up The best UPS, or uninterruptible power supply, will safeguard your PC from unexpected power loss and surges.
The PC Gamer tech team's New Year's resolutions
By Nick Evanson published
Promises, promises What do you mean? Of course we'll stick to them!
I lost my head and lubed a mechanical keyboard switch. Help
By Dave James last updated
Lubin' Asus made me do it, though now I need never do it again.
The PC Gamer Needlessly Terrible Hardware Naming Awards 2023: Our favourite awful names for otherwise reasonable products
By Andy Edser published
Awful It's award season here at PC Gamer, and we'd be remiss if we didn't point out some of the very best terrible, awful, no-good product names we've seen.
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