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
TSMC is delaying its Arizona foundry over a lack of skilled workers alongsde a $5.85B income slump
By Dave James published
news That's a brutal double whammy of a delay to the vaunted N3 production fab in Arizona to 2025 and a drop in its projected revenue.
The 16GB Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti is one of the most cynical graphics cards ever, and I'm kinda here for it
By Dave James published
FINE Theoretically the latest Ada graphics card launched today, but good luck finding one. If you really wanted an expensive 16GB RTX 4060 Ti anyways.
Leaked 3DMark numbers suggest AMD's next graphics card should undercut the RTX 4070 and outperform it
By Dave James published
news New leaked performance figures for the RX 7800 suggest it will deliver higher rasterised performance compared with the RTX 4070.
July's Windows 11 update could be the solution to your game stuttering woes
By Dave James published
News Microsoft finally catches up to the fact we've had 1,000Hz gaming mice since 2005.
The new OneXFly certainly makes the ROG Ally look like a chonky boi
By Dave James last updated
news This is the lightweight portable handheld gaming PC I've been waiting for.
'I see you're looking for a Prime Day PC gaming deal. Would you like help?'
By Dave James published
ClippAI Tom's Guide has deployed a ChatGPT-powered chatbot to help you find deals around Prime Day. Y'know, in case you're bored of our expert recommendations.
Starfield partners with AMD and oh boy, the internet is not happy
By Dave James last updated
News Some folk are mourning a hypothetical lack of DLSS support, some expecting more classic Bethesda launch jank, some fear Jedi: Survivor level issues, and some just straight out call for a boycott of AMD.
Starfield is promised 'at least DLSS3 support in the Early Access 5 days' by pro modder PureDark
By Dave James published
News "According to AMD Sponsored games' tradition there won't be any DLSS support. But don't worry, you've got me."
The Diablo 4 team confirms DirectStorage isn't working in the game 'but we are planning on enabling it in the future'
By Dave James published
News Microsoft's funky SSD tech should be landing in Diablo 4 at some point.
AOKZOE A1 Pro review
By Dave James published
Big deck energy Definitely more than a Steam Deck, but better than an ROG Ally?
Intel's forcing its chip designers to pay market rates not mate's rates at its own fabs
By Dave James published
news Splitting the fab and products sides of Intel's business is both an effort in cost savings and enticing customers in to pay for its facilities.
Did you know there's been a hidden 'last resort' Emergency restart button in Windows since Vista?
By Dave James published
News Am I the last person to find out about this, or are there other folk only finding this out now?
DockCase Pocket Smart SSD Enclosure review
By Dave James published
Smart A genuinely smart new home for your old Steam Deck SSD.
Leak suggests AMD's best laptop GPU delivers RTX 4070 desktop performance for less power
By Dave James published
News The power and efficiency of AMD's RDNA 3 architecture looks great in mobile form, but the jury's still out on the desktop side.
DrunkDeer A75 review
By Dave James published
You're drunk A lovely piece of hardware hugely let down by its frustratingly limited software.
Windows 11's latest endearing mess rigorously and wrongly enforces Britishisms
By Dave James published
news Microsoft's patchwork OS will now sometimes auto-translate Zip files to postcode files for UK users.
Intel claims 'substantial' CPU core speed boost in Meteor Lake test chip 'for just moving wires around'
By Dave James published
news In the silicon world, the sandwich vs. pizza debate is real.
If you've got a modern Gigabyte motherboard there's a BIOS setting you need to disable to avoid PC's latest security calamity
By Dave James last updated
News Gigabyte is also in the process of uploading beta BIOS fixes which should mitigate the issue.
Computex 2023: all the biggest stories from the Taiwan tech show
By Dave James last updated
Computex 2023 We're on the ground out in Taipei to give you the lowdown on the biggest show in PC hardware.
This new PC case is giving real 3D printer vibes and I guess that might be my new 'thing'
By Dave James published
news I'm really into this Azza Sanctum design. Just remember not to squeeze your extruded plastic into the wrong glass box, eh?
Adata's shown its 1600W PSU can power four 450W RTX 4090s and that it really doesn't care for maths
By Dave James published
News Topping 2200W of potential power, this isn't your average 1600W PSU.
The perfect PSU for your silent gaming PC build just became a reality
By Dave James published
News The "near-absolute silence" Cooler Master X Silent power supply is available in a completely fanless 750W model.
Nvidia briefly joined Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet in the $1 trillion club. But please don't forget us PC gamers, Jen-Hsun
By Dave James last updated
News Nvidia today passed the $1 trillion mark in terms of market capitalisation before dropping back below the threshold at the close of the markets.