James Bentley

James Bentley

Hardware writer

James is a more recent PC gaming convert, often admiring graphics cards, cases, and motherboards from afar. It was not until 2019, after just finishing a degree in law and media, that they decided to throw out the last few years of education, build their PC, and start writing about gaming instead. In that time, he has covered the latest doodads, contraptions, and gismos, and loved every second of it. Hey, it’s better than writing case briefs.

Latest articles by James Bentley

A dramatically lit close up of computer memory/ RAM on a motherboard-style background.
Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis

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News Could the big three become the big four?

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Battlefield 6
EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'

By James Bentley Published

News It seems like it was linked to a recent Nvidia driver update.

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Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop
Chinese RAM is reportedly landing in laptops from HP, Asus and Acer but it won't change the memory crisis overnight

By James Bentley Published

News CXMT is having a big couple of months.

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Valve's new Steam Machine during a visit to Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington. The Steam Machine is a compact living room gaming PC.
Okay, this time it seems like Valve has *actually* fixed Steam's local game transfer problem

By James Bentley Published

News No, this time for real.

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Elon Musk steepling his hands and looking sombre.
SpaceXAI pats itself on the back for removing temporary turbines in Memphis under agreed order over the next year: "We care deeply about being good neighbors"

By James Bentley Published

News Now if you could just cool it on the AI, that would be good.

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
OpenAI calls out Apple's 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit' in latest blog post

By James Bentley Published

News Apple has yet to respond.

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Gigabyte Aorus B550M X motherboard on a yellow and orange gradient
Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad

By James Bentley Published

News AM4 is back on the menu.

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Ezbench's Nukemark, showing the pandora benchmarking test
I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump

By James Bentley Published

News I can hear my 4070 Super screaming in the background.

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MSI's Pro Max OLED 271UJW12 gaming monitor on a grey background
MSI unveils its first 4K OLED monitor using a promising inkjet-printed panel, and it's not made by Samsung or LG

By James Bentley Published

News This could be an important testing ground for the panel technology.

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Noctua's Fan validation setup for vertical movement, aka the torture-test rig for fans
Noctua shows off 'custom-built torture-test rigs' for testing fans, and now I'm afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory

By James Bentley Published

News I've only just heard of it, but I'm now afraid of being put in Noctua's torture-test rig.

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steam deck
'Deck de France' is a new free software that can turn your bike trainer into a controller for your Steam Deck

By James Bentley Published

News And it even kinda works with Rocket League.

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Microsoft Xbox Series X
Microsoft raises prices of Xbox by 25% to 30% in Europe with the Series S now costing more than the Series X at launch

By James Bentley Published

news And I don't even know if it's worth the original price.

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Forza Horizon 6: Several off-road vehicles, including a jeep centre-frame, racing through a field of red flowers.
We haven't needed motion blur in games for a long time, so I wish it would stop being the default

By James Bentley Published

not blur-fect Do you also turn it off immediately, like I do?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor
It seems like AMD's Zen 6 LP CPU cores will be a mixture of architectures going all the way back to Zen 2

By James Bentley Published

News I'd love to see these thrown into a gaming laptop.

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The XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT on white gravel
First AMD RX 9050 8 GB review suggests RTX 3060-like performance but with some strange spec discrepancies

By James Bentley Published

News We'll have to test one for ourselves to make up our minds.

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A photo showing a size comparison of a Sony PlayStation 5 consoles against a variety of other gaming devices
Report shows 34% of physical PS5 games and 50% of Xbox Series X games do not work fully without a download first

By James Bentley Published

News Are consoles following PC's lead?

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Asus Prime RX 9070 XT graphics card
AMD is reportedly raising graphics card prices—it was just waiting for Nvidia to do it first

By James Bentley Published

News It's not a good time to buy a PC.

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Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
The memory crisis keeps getting worse: Nvidia graphics card prices now rumoured to increase by as much as 30%

By James Bentley Published

News And graphics card prices were already not looking pretty.

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Samsung Electronics America Corporate office in Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA. - stock photo. Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA - August 23, 2022
Gleefully counting its billions, Samsung cries warning of a 'severe' memory supply crisis next year

By James Bentley Published

News 'Beyond 2029, it is hard to say because of more limited visibility'

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Keychron MagOptic mouse switches
Keychron's gaming mouse firmware is going open-source, while the company critiques 'firmware you can't read, can't audit, can't change'

By James Bentley Published

News I'm always in favour of more open-source software.

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
OpenAI CEO thinks the AI singularity is already upon us and that cracking down on it wouldn't be good for humanity, because of course he does

By James Bentley Published

News It makes sense that the OpenAI CEO wants you to think that AI is very, very intelligent.

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Hands-on with Valve's new VR headset, the Steam Frame, during an interview at Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
The Steam Frame subreddit is currently losing its collective mind praying for a release date

By James Bentley Published

News Good lord! What is happening in there?!

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GOG
GOG Galaxy for Linux is officially in the works

By James Bentley Published

News Another win for Linux gamers.

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A dramatically lit close up of computer memory/ RAM on a motherboard-style background.
Two arrested for checking into esports hotels and stealing RAM, making off with over $2,000 in profit in just one month

By James Bentley Published

News And that's from just 16 sticks.

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steam deck
'Easily the dumbest thing I've ever built': Guy puts spikes and taser on Steam Deck to stop family from using it

By James Bentley Published

News Yes, they tried putting a password on it first.

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