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

I'll say it: The best thing I saw from Nvidia at CES wasn't its sweet new GPUs, but some tasty AI every RTX gamer can enjoy
By Dave James published
FPS in disguise The new transformer model for DLSS could be... er... kinda transformative.

Jen-Hsun reckons Nvidia has driven the 'cost of computing down by 1,000,000 times'
By Dave James published
Comparing the relentless performance increase of the GPU to the original economic ethos behind Moore's Law.

Will there ever become a point with AI where there are no traditionally rendered frames in games? Perhaps surprisingly, Jen-Hsun says 'no'
By Dave James published
news Then goes on to speak rather poetically about inspirational pixels.

Nvidia CES 2025 keynote live: new GPUs or there'll be a riot
By Dave James last updated
Live Watch with me as Jen-Hsun presumably announces the new RTX 50-series Blackwell cards, or pulls off the biggest GPU bait-and-switch in history.

Nvidia's new RTX 5070 will deliver 'RTX 4090 performance at $549' when it launches in February
By Dave James published
News The lowest spec new RTX Blackwell GPU is capable of frame rates akin to the $1,599 RTX 4090 of the previous generation, though likely only through new DLSS 4 AI smarts.

AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs are about efficiency in terms of performance and price: 'We know where gamers buy products, it's well below that $1,000 price point'
By Dave James published
The number one priority for this generation of Radeon GPU is "improving performance in the areas that gamers care about most."

AMD says 'the performance data out there for RDNA 4 is completely inaccurate'
By Dave James published
News But the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT not being in AMD's CES keynote is not about any kind of development slip.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024: The winners in every category of PC gaming greatness from the past 12 months of tech
By Dave James published
The winners We've had our hands on all the best PC gaming hardware of 2024 and these are our absolute, solid gold favourites.

I've tested the best graphics cards and CPUs of the year, and yet it's this affordable, unassuming little gaming laptop that captured my heart in 2024
By Dave James published
Gear of the year The Asus TUF A14 is a surprising, delightful little laptop I did not expect to love so much.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2024
By Dave James published
Gear of the year The handheld market is way more than just the Steam Deck, with stunning little PC consoles from all over delighting both our hands and eyeballs.

OneXPlayer OneXFly F1 Pro handheld PC review
By Dave James published
Flying The first Strix Point handheld becomes the most powerful and maybe most desirable, too.

The best left-handed mouse for gaming
By Dave James last updated
Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.

Intel Arc B580 graphics card review
By Dave James published
Up 'n' down Hope is a dangerous thing to base a graphics card purchase on.

Best Cyber Monday PC gaming UK deals 2024: The yearly tech discounts have rolled through Black Friday weekend and beyond
By Dave James last updated
As always, we're curating them all and picking out the best deals for you.

Cyber Monday gaming PC deals 2024: discounts across RTX 40-series and Radeon rigs
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday and the week of deals that follows is here, and we're tracking down the best prebuilt gaming PC deals.

Cyber Monday gaming keyboard and mouse deals 2024: majestic mechanicals and righteous rodents
By Dave James last updated
The best Cyber Monday deals on gaming mice and gaming keyboards from Razer, Corsair, Logitech, Drop and the rest.

Cyber Monday SSD deals 2024: The fastest PC storage at the lowest price per GB
By Dave James last updated
Apparently, Cyber Monday is now a whole "Cyber Week," despite the deals day being done. Well, whatever the case: there are SSD offers a-plenty.

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.
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