Latest articles by Dave James
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptops of 2023
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.
The biggest hardware surprise of 2023 for me was how damned good Lenovo Legion laptops are now
Gear of the Year I used to be team Razer, but now I think I'm part of the Legion.
A simple Windows 11 shortcut has changed my view of PC HDR gaming: Win+Alt+B
HDAAAAAH So, I'm a HDR guy now.
It's apparently down to AMD whether Nvidia releases its RTX 50-series GPUs in 2024 or not
News Insiders suggest Nvidia has the RTX 5090 prepped for release at the end of 2024 "if we want it to."
Dough Spectrum One (Gorilla Glass) gaming monitor review
Doh Just as stunning a screen as Dough's original glossy display... and that's the issue.
Lenovo Legion 9i (Gen8) gaming laptop review
Legion Legend Intel Core i9 13980HX | RTX 4090 (175W) | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 2TB SSD | $3,693 | £3,950
Intel's unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers 'on a technical basis' but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind
news Bringing its desktop and laptop Arc drivers together means everyone will benefit from every performance bump Intel's engineers can deliver.
Intel's slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance
news To get an 'Arc Graphics' sticker, your Core Ultra laptop has to be dual-channel with 16GB of memory.
Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
news I mean, obviously it's beating the Ryzen 7 7840U in Intel benchmarks, but it means I now can't wait to get my hands on a new Core Ultra laptop to really see what it can do.
Watch out Razer, Asus' switch from plastic to an all-metal unibody gaming laptop design was hidden in plain sight all along
news We thought Asus' CES 2024 teaser trailer didn't say much, but by ditching the plastic chassis for metal it's going toe-to-toe with the Razer Blade aesthetic.
If GTA 6 isn't coming to PC until 2026 this is what a top-end gaming rig should look like when it does
Tech dreams With a PC release not likely until 2026 here's the hardware that will be cutting edge when we hit the state of Leonida.
Nvidia RTX 4060 vs RTX 3060 and its 7 other biggest rival GPUs
Head-to-head Here's how the GeForce RTX 4060 stacks up against the previous generation, its Ada compatriots, and its AMD rivals in our tests.
This is the spiritual successor to the best graphics card ever made
News Galax has listed a single slot beauty on its China pages, and I really want to get my hands on one.
'The next thing we're working on moving forward is Steam Deck 2,' but Valve has yet to see silicon offering the leap it's looking for
News "That's not going to happen next year or the year after that. It's probably going to be more than that."
SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck'
News "Oh, man, it's very high on our list."
Valve knows people will jam the shiny new OLED panel into old Steam Decks 'but it's probably not going to go well'
news It says Steam Deck OLED "parts are not swappable" with the original LCD version.
Valve is committed to bringing Steam Deck OLED 'battery life improvements to the LCD models as well'
news A post-launch BIOS update will see all the firmware and software improvements of the new version brought to the original Steam Deck.
Steam Deck OLED vs Steam Deck LCD: what's inside
Innards We've cracked open both the new Steam Deck OLED and its OG LCD version to see what's change. Spoiler, it's a lot.
Valve just unveiled 'the definitive first generation Steam Deck' with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU
news The more efficient HDR panel, bigger battery, and 6nm APU all add up to between 30 - 50% longer game time.
Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 gaming laptop review
LOQ'd not loaded Lenovo's budget-oriented LOQ feels like a rare miss from the company's laptop makers.
Yaaas, AMD's FSR 2.2 has finally been patched into Baldur's Gate 3
news I am in handheld gaming PC heaven right now.
Framework 13 (2023) AMD mainboard review
It works First you get style, then you get the customisation, then you get the gaming power.
