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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Looking at the PlayStation 5 capture, we're noodling on just what extra shinies Rockstar might add to the best gaming platform's version.

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News Nvidia might also be doing the smart thing a rebranding the whole DLSS 5 pitch as DLSS Neural Rendering

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Nvidia has rounded out the DLSS 4.5 stack… now where's DLSS 5?

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news One of the biggest manufacturers of graphics cards has noted in its results that the second half of this year is going to suck for GPUs.

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Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.

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Poll That's lucky, because the next generation of GPUs is probably going to start at $600...

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On a budget It's not that the 7700X3D is a bad chip, but the value proposition of Intel's CPUs is mighty tempting for a budget gamer.

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Score: 82% Not a DIY play, but could be the basis for bundles and budget pre-built gaming PCs.

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GPewwww And I don't know where we go from here. Any positive thoughts welcome.

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Score: 88% The best laptop Framework's ever produced, and one of the best I've ever used.

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Score: 85% The best handheld gaming PC I've ever used, but one whose pricing is a tragedy.

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Poll We asked what the minimum frame rate you'd accept as playable, and 60 fps still stands as a measure of smooth gaming.

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Poll Sadly that does also mean 21% are on 16 GB or less, with upgrades only getting more expensive.

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news Not many have been made, the device is hella expensive, and Windows is not made for the living room while Steam OS is. Otherwise, great news.

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Portable powerhouses Don't compromise on power or portability with the best gaming laptops.

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GTA 6 Or will you double dip... as Rockstar wants?

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News It's potentially good news for owners, but will potentially become a balancing act of performance vs fidelity.

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Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.

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Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...

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Computex 2026 I was frustrated at the lack of chips with the 10 Xe-core B370 iGPU in affordable laptops, and now I know why I'm even more frustrated.

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Computex 2026 "We understand that both for CPUs and GPUs, overclockability is a core part of what many of our gamers and enthusiasts are looking for."

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Computex 2026 I spoke with David McAfee about what it took to bring back the older chip.

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Computex 2026 The Framework 13 Pro is a sleek, stylish machine lazer-focused on software devs sick of MacOS.

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Computex 2026 Remarkably, playing Pragmata and Indiana Jones via Prism's emulation wasn't really any different.

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Computex 2026 Keychron's even using it's new MagOptic mouse switch in its office mice, "if they don't use, they don't use it, but it still performs like a normal mouse."
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