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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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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Kicking a lump of silicon while it's down.

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Gen-Hsun? The current stream of gen-AI game videos teases a future where the rendering power of your GPU barely matters, it's the built-in AI chops which matter.

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news Who's going to buy a new GPU for the rest of the year with these things looming large?

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Fully🤘Metal They're all metal, all the time. But the blank set has frustrated me, and the premium price is hard to swallow despite their utterly premium feel.

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Stay Frosty A sturdy standing desk, but it's got a fight on its hands trying to topple Secretlab's mighty Magnus.

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news The Intel 20A process seems like it's going to go down in history as purely a test platform for backside power and GAAFET.

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🦄 The new Framework laptop display is exactly why I love its products.

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Step back Lots of improvements, but fundamentally a weaker proposition than the Ryzen mainboard.

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news "Added support for extra ROG Ally keys" is music to my ears.

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Upmarket upscaling As well as whether you should...

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news Having not really been updated since 1983, Notepad is getting rich features without losing its essence.

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news SiliconMotion's new controller is finally ready to roll out to SSD makers.

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news After briefly becoming the world's most valuable company Nvidia has now experienced the biggest three-day loss in value of any company ever.
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