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.
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Black Friday Black Friday is a-coming and the deals wheels will are already rolling in earnest.

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The guide Here are PC Gamer's hardware picks, based on years of experience and expert knowledge, all in an easily digestible but admittedly big ol' list.

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News The accidental reveal of unpatched vulnerabilities as high as 9 on the CVSS score chart is a little worrisome.

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News This is not getting better, is it?

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Score: 78% The best RTX Spark machine, but is it the best for you? Probably not…

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Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.

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News The Achievement Customizer gives you full control over your wee pop-ups.

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🎃update The performance hit you get from enabling DLSS Neural Rendering is now significantly lower, but NBA 2K27 is still not going to convince anyone.

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Bright spark The performance is there, the experience is great, but the price is utterly punitive when you compare against dedicated gaming laptops.

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News Nvidia's DLSS 5 is getting smaller in practically every way, including the performance overhead and the AI yassification.

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Eye candy The best gaming monitors offer the perfect mix of resolution, refresh rate, and size to immerse you in your favorite gaming worlds.

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News "Hey, you still in there?"

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News The launch is coming on October 16, is your bank account prepared?

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Pixel Pushers I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.

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Deal? An X post just highlighted to me that Amazon really does sell everything.

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PC pics I used all the issues from 2004; can you tell what it is yet?

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Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.

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News The versatile Steam Frame's focus is "on being lightweight and being comfortable".

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News Nvidia is reportedly prepping a new version of the RTX 5070 potentially using failed RTX 5070 Ti or RTX 5080 cores.

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News DLSS Neural Rendering is being developed hard in the modding community.

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News A new app allows you to inject DLSS Neural Rendering deep into games even if you're running an AMD card. You probably won't want to, though.
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