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

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 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.

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.

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.

Best graphics card for laptops: the mobile GPUs I'd want in my next gaming laptop
By Dave James last updated
Go mobile Helping you pick the right graphics silicon for your next laptop purchase.

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 14-inch gaming laptop: The top compact gaming laptops I've held in these hands
By Dave James last updated
Smol The 14-inch form factor is the perfect nexus point between performance and portability.

Black Friday PC gaming deals 2024
By Shaun Prescott last updated
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