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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Score: 87% The Vengeance line once more proves itself some of the best gaming PCs, even if it can't yoink the latest and greatest Corsair gear out the warehouse.

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Score: 91% Finally, a wireless headset to topple the all-conquering Cloud Alpha.

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Score: 79% Great audio and ANC comes at a frustrating cost.

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Score: 90% For the budding professional gamer, the new DeathAdder has everything you could want. For everyone else it might be a stretch.

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Score: 81% The most impressed I've been with a modern Alienware PC in years.

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Audiophile Immerse yourself in your games with the best audiophile headphones for gaming.

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Score: 83% Still a great compact gaming laptop, but the grating fan noise and sharper Blade 14 relegate it into second place.

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Score: 86% The 2025 update for Razer's micro machine has pretty much made it my ideal gaming laptop.

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Ergo I've spoken with a group of certified ergonomists about what makes the best gaming chair and what annoys them the most about modern seats.

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Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.

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Steam Machine I get why you might not want to go back, but I just made myself a Steam Machine from office bits and it was (eventually) pretty damned easy.

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News Micro Center says it could be an issue at source in China, which means there could be far more than 32 cases of missing GPUs.

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Live! You're going to learn how the new Nvidia GPU performs alongside me, isn't that exciting? No? Just me then.

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Score: 87% The most performant gaming laptop of this generation, and RTX 5090 be damned.

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News Want to literally see inside the Switch 2's processor?

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news The budget graphics silicon is hitting just before Computex... where another budget GPU beckons.

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Score: 83% A classic gaming laptop that delivers on the frame rate promise of Nvidia's RTX 50-series, but not on the battery life.

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Struggle pug Sticking everything on Ultra with a UE5 game was always going to be thus, I guess.

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Score: 87% The finest Framework around.

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News There's Lumen software and hardware ray tracing, so no RTX actually required.

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news Razer's taken down laptop pricing, new tariffs will make tech pricing higher, 2+2=4.

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Which of the modern graphics cards should you be dropping into your PC?

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Score: 78% Anachronistic gaming laptop style with RTX 5090-topping performance.
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