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
Why the hell did no-one tell me I could actually make the Prt Sc button useful?
By Dave James published
news Microsoft's experimenting with making the practically useless Prt Sc key open Window's screen capture tool by default, but you can enable it yourself today.
Modders rejoice! Bringing ray tracing to PC gaming classics just got way easier
By Jorge Jimenez last updated
News Part of Nvidia's RTX Remix is available right now for free.
PNY RTX 4070 Verto review
By Dave James published
For reference The Founders card is still the one to go for, but this basic reference design doesn't miss the mark.
Cisco trashes $23M worth of tech to avoid it being sold in Russia
By Dave James published
News Just a drop in the ocean to a company making around $30 million per day...
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D review
By Dave James published
GOAT? The best gaming processor AMD has ever produced.
New DirectX 12 preview could pave the way for PCs to become more like an Xbox or PS5
By Dave James published
News Now the CPU and GPU can both access VRAM directly, does a gaming PC need traditional system memory anymore?
Audeze Maxwell review
By Dave James published
Glorious The perfect union of audiophile drivers and wireless gaming headset. My ears are in heaven.
You probably didn't realise FIFA 23 is actually one of the most classically PC games around
By Dave James published
Own goal But absolutely not in a good way.
These are the 34 jobs OpenAI suggests will secure you against the AI revolution
By Dave James published
News Journalist is not one. So I asked Google's Bard whether I ought to be worried about my job. It thinks I'll be fine...
NZXT H9 Elite review
By Dave James published
Same same A good high-end PC chassis, though a definite homage to a Lian Li classic.
Watch Nvidia's GTC 2023 keynote right here today
By Dave James published
News CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will unveil advancements in AI, robotics, and more in the 90 minute address.
Jen-Hsun plans on sticking around as Nvidia CEO in meat and robot form for another 100 years or so
By Dave James published
News Jen-Hsun Huang's CNBC has been published in its full form ahead of today's GTC keynote.
The best mini-ITX PC case in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Mini but Mighty Go compact and cute with the best mini-ITX PC cases.
Best mechanical gaming keyboards in 2024
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Click Clack Make the switch with our guide to the best mechanical gaming keyboards.
Intel Arrow Lake CPUs coming early 2024 but without Meteor Lake on the desktop
By Dave James published
News First new chips are delayed, then they're not, then they're coming sooner than expected. What gives?
Logitech G FITS review
By Dave James published
FITS & STARTS Your mobile buds and desktop gaming headset rolled into one.
The best left-handed mouse for gaming in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.
The best mid-tower cases in 2024
By Dave James last updated
ATX Pick the best mid-tower case to house your ideal gaming PC build.
Both AMD and Nvidia's latest drivers can do very bad things to your gaming PC
By Dave James last updated
News But there are workarounds should even the worst happen.
Grab Nvidia and AMD's new GPU drivers here to save your CPU and maybe even your Windows install
By Dave James published
News Nvidia has released a hotfix driver to sorted out its CPU usage issue, but AMD is simply baking in a workaround to its more catastrophic bug.
Best cheap gaming keyboards
By Dave James last updated
Budget keys Even if you're on a budget, the best cheap gaming keyboards can still deliver a great experience for your fingers.
How Intel caught up to AMD's graphics card sales: Bad maths
By Dave James published
News Yeah, they didn't. Analyst group, Jon Peddie Research, wrongly counted 60,000+ expensive data centre GPUs when making its calculations.