
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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Black Friday PC gaming deals 2024
By Shaun Prescott last updated
Deals Save on laptops, accessories and more.

Lenovo Legion Tower 5i gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Simple things A great entry-level gaming PC and a solid buy for 1080p gaming.

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor
By Dave James published
Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
By Dave James published
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.

AMD just took the one thing Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs had going for them and slapped it right out of their hands
By Dave James published
News Near 50% higher frame rates AND cooler AND lower power. Ouch.

Nvidia's upgrading GeForce Now's $10 tier with 1440p and Ultrawide resolutions, but the only extra Ultimate users get is a new 100-hour play limit
By Dave James published
news With a market value of well over $3,000,000,000,000, you'd think it could have kept pricing the same without introducing a blanket time limit.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D may have just launched, but AMD doesn't expect an end of life announcement for the old 7800X3D 'anytime in the near future' and 'would expect it in the market for a while'
By Dave James published
The king isn't quite dead, but long live the king.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU review
By Dave James published
Underslung The picking of the best gaming CPU might just be a little more nuanced this time around.

Lemokey G1 wireless gaming mouse review
By Dave James published
Little squeaker A very Keychron wireless gaming mouse: Affordable, simple, and feature-rich.

Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Edition gaming chair review
By Dave James published
Peak Secretlab What price unprecedented comfort?
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