Latest articles by Dave James
Razer Blade 16 (2025) gaming laptop review
Sharper than ever Simply the best gaming laptop I've ever used. So, how will Asus respond this time?
Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile tested: The needle hasn't moved on performance but this is the first time I'd consider ditching my desktop for a gaming laptop
With Nvidia's focus on efficiency over raw performance gains there will be pushback, but this is the mobile gaming experience I've been after.
Colorful iGame RTX 5070 Ti Vulcan OC review
Too much, man Pinning the moniker of the god of fire to an overclocked graphics card has gone about as well as you might expect.
XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 OC graphics card review
Price hike With $100 tacked onto the initial $549 price tag—at least—the RX 9070 becomes a hard card to love.
MSI RTX 5090 Suprim SOC graphics card review
Monster, monster The biggest, most powerful consumer graphics card I've ever jammed into our test rig, but not the RTX 5090 I would recommend.
Nvidia says it's sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. I'd bloody well hope so given there was essentially just the RTX 4090 for competition
news So, combined it sold more of four different GPUs than a single $1,600 card.
AMD Radeon RX 9070-series launch day live: The promise of a ton of reference priced stock is a tantalising one but likely won't last long
Live! AMD's impressive new cards are out today, and have had since January to shore up stock in the channel, and we'll be keeping an eye on how that pans out.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review
Banger AMD's walking the walk on pricing and performance, it's now up to the AIBs to not let the side down.
AMD says its ghostly 'Toyshop tech demo is truly not reflective' of what FSR4 will look like when it ships with the RDNA 4 cards this week
News There are a lot of ghosting issues in AMD's new path tracing demo, and it's got a few people concerned.
Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition review
Ambush The AMD ambush ought to prompt a radical rethink of the green team's pricing for a card which could, and maybe should have been the RTX 5060.
Nvidia RTX 5070 hands-on preview: a sneak peek at my unreleased RTX Blackwell card hitting triple digit frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Avowed at 4K
Sneak peek Yes, that's the magic of Multi Frame Generation for you, and yes there is considerable competition on the horizon. But it's looking good, at least.
Best graphics card for laptops in 2025: the mobile GPUs I'd want in my next gaming laptop
Go mobile Helping you pick the right graphics silicon for your next laptop purchase.
Framework takes aim at 'janky, locked-down, disposable, underpowered, and frankly, boring' entry-level laptops with its new 12-inch touchscreen
News "This is a defining product for us, and we can't wait for you to try it."
Framework's first desktop PC is giving us the AMD Strix Halo machine we've been craving, and the opportunity to build our own
News The first modular desktop PC from Framework. What do you mean they're already modular? They're certainly not like this...
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti review (MSI Ventus 3X)
MSRIP A GPU with performance close to an RTX 5080 that's sadly set to be priced to oblivion.
MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC Plus graphics card review
Gouged The poster child for the great 5070 Ti Blackwell GPU screwjob.
The price gouging of Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti is utterly grotesque
Heels Every manufacturer is sniffing an opportunity to squeeze an extra chunk of cash out of PC gamers desperate for a scarce new card. And it sucks.
Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance: From Nvidia's latest, past AMD's greatest, to Intel's failing silicon, this is what the game does to PCG's own rigs
We put our own machines through the ringer with the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, to lesser or greater success.
The unwelcome workaround for Nvidia's RTX 50-series black screen issues is to hobble your gaming monitor with a 60 Hz refresh rate
News It's a temporary fix, but I don't like it one bit.
There is one thing making me excited about the new Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and no, it isn't Multi Frame Generation
Push it If the GPU at the heart of the RTX 5070 Ti can deliver the same level of overclocking it does with the RTX 5080 we could have a champ on our hands.
I'm genuinely stunned by the overclocking performance of the RTX 5080, and curious as to why Nvidia left so much headroom
OC hero Maybe I won the silicon lottery, but the GB203 sure looks like there was a lot of performance left on the table.
Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition review
4080 Ti Super A strangely unexciting graphics card built almost entirely for the Multi Frame Gen gaming experience.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition review
All about the Gen A new graphics card built for silicon austerity and a new era of AI rendering.
