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.
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FPS in disguise The new transformer model for DLSS could be... er... kinda transformative.

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Comparing the relentless performance increase of the GPU to the original economic ethos behind Moore's Law.

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news Then goes on to speak rather poetically about inspirational pixels.

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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.

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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.

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The number one priority for this generation of Radeon GPU is "improving performance in the areas that gamers care about most."

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News But the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT not being in AMD's CES keynote is not about any kind of development slip.

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Gear of the year The Asus TUF A14 is a surprising, delightful little laptop I did not expect to love so much.

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Flying The first Strix Point handheld becomes the most powerful and maybe most desirable, too.

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Up 'n' down Hope is a dangerous thing to base a graphics card purchase on.

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Simple things A great entry-level gaming PC and a solid buy for 1080p gaming.

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News Near 50% higher frame rates AND cooler AND lower power. Ouch.

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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.

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The king isn't quite dead, but long live the king.

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Underslung The picking of the best gaming CPU might just be a little more nuanced this time around.

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Little squeaker A very Keychron wireless gaming mouse: Affordable, simple, and feature-rich.

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Peak Secretlab What price unprecedented comfort?

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Who am I? Why won't you remember me?!

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AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | Nvidia RTX 4060 (100 W) | 16 GB LPDDR5x-7500 | 1 TB SSD | $1499 | £1479

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News Valve may not be creating yearly iterations of the Steam Deck, but it's having to give the same answer every year.
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