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
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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 RX 7600 XT](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bRK3mXHfusYvJ5RmQvu4JQ-320-80.jpg)
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.
![SteamOS on multiple handheld gaming PCs](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mmdbL3LgZWp667Azmq32TC-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Razer Blade family](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8koS96EFuK79GmVi32Y3oe-320-80.png)
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.
![Nvidia RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UdSR6quPp2ZTr3AuA2SbBd-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Nvidia RTX 40-series Super cards](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/a9G6eTmuQ3uEcJ4w3VttAn-320-80.jpg)
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 RTX 4080 Super](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/woFx8GQyrKy4edrXckaMwK-320-80.jpg)
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?
![Mock up of Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics card](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dRuP5mRdG7CWLyevvGixj4-320-80.jpg)
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.
![AMD's CEO Lisa Su at CES 2020](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qDK99x7KtDSDHFZjKX9dj3-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Microsoft and OpenAI logos](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3wcBde6PfKyNCd5vM7rsWM-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Razer's new OLED and 4K gaming laptop screens](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yzbs7vsHjTBtPXfzjvCZzL-320-80.jpg)
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](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/78cLWpF3A8tFvfg353pUyc-320-80.jpg)
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.
![Year 2024 on an abstract flowing binary code background with dotted lines and glowing lights. New Year 2024 celebration concept.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bYMXsptXHJBCv3Pb93SGSQ-320-80.jpg)
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!
![Lubing mechanical key switches](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uyyfR8h9U98xTz4EtYjrFQ-320-80.jpg)
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 Name Awards 2023](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qRuqQpcw9f9E7KQCMKFtjP-320-80.jpg)
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.
![PC Gamer hardware awards logo](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RSLmn56zUEpgdDf2BsrnxG-320-80.png)
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2023: The winners
By Dave James published
The winners All the winners from the best tech released and tested in the past 12 months of PC gaming.
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What we want to see from PC gaming tech in 2024
By Dave James published
Heart's desire The past 12 months haven't been the most inspiring, so join us in hoping for better from the year ahead.
![Ducky Outlaw65 blurred](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zmnB9PP8VBt8ZjtYdB4LRZ-320-80.jpg)
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboards of 2023
By Dave James published
Gear of the year
![Best motherboard of the year](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5rg2szZAQnQvVRbD7jXxvj-320-80.jpg)
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best motherboard of 2023
By Dave James published
Gear of the Year It's not the sexiest piece of PC componentry but where would you be without the unsung heroes of PC gaming?
![Best gaming laptop of 2023 awards](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XNEUPaeauR6bZZ2eym4Apm-320-80.jpg)
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptops of 2023
By Dave James published
Gear of the year It's been a landmark year for gaming laptops, whether you want the absolute top-end monster machine, or an affordable mobile gamer, 2023 has delivered.
![Lenovo Legion gaming laptop](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yY4kg7sqcsNZgnMQ3YQydS-320-80.jpg)
The biggest hardware surprise of 2023 for me was how damned good Lenovo Legion laptops are now
By Dave James published
Gear of the Year I used to be team Razer, but now I think I'm part of the Legion.
![Nvidia Shield device superimposed on a Cyberpunk 2077 screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2EjnMHCRgTtKtiRp4yZmpK-320-80.jpg)
A simple Windows 11 shortcut has changed my view of PC HDR gaming: Win+Alt+B
By Dave James last updated
HDAAAAAH So, I'm a HDR guy now.
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