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
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2025: These are the rodents I love getting my mitts on
By Dave James last updated
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2025: the top cans I'd buy myself
By Dave James last updated
Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.
The best audiophile headphones for gaming in 2025: my top recommendations for the best cans money can buy
By Dave James last updated
Audiophile Immerse yourself in your games with the best audiophile headphones for gaming.
Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
By Dave James last updated
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
By Dave James last updated
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.
Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'
By Dave James published
news It's all part of the process.
Here's how the new RTX 50-series cards perform against the previous generation of GeForce GPUs
By Dave James published
Gen or render? And here's also why we're not getting the same sort of big frame rate bump we got out of the RTX 40-series: hardware is hard.
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.
Best gaming PCs: these are the rigs and brands I recommend in 2025
By Dave James last updated
Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best gaming PC today.
Best graphics cards: the GPUs I recommend for every budget in 2025
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Pixel Pushers Our picks of the most powerful gaming GPUs and the ones that provide the best bang for your buck.
Best office chairs for gaming in 2025: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested
By Dave James last updated
Take a seat Take care of your spine with the best office chairs for gaming.
The best gaming headsets in Australia for 2025
By Dave James last updated
Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.
The best gaming monitors in Australia for 2025
By Dave James last updated
Eye candy The best gaming monitors offer the perfect mix of resolution, refresh rate, and size to immerse you in your favorite gaming worlds.
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.
The best gaming laptops in Australia for 2025
By Dave James last updated
Portable powerhouses Don't compromise on power or portability with the best gaming laptops.
Best gaming desk in 2025: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
By Dave James last updated
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks just to see which is worth your money.
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