Articles by Dave James, Managing Editor, Hardware

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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.

Articles by: Dave James

Ray Reconstruction in Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0

I've tested Nvidia's latest ray tracing magic in Cyberpunk 2077 and it's a no-brainer: at worst it's just better-looking, at best it's that and a whole lot more performance

By Dave James published 20 September 23

Real Good Nvidia's DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction feature fits perfectly with Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 added realism.

Whether or not Nvidia really has a chiplet-based RTX 5090 'under investigation' its GPU future has to be multi-chip

By Dave James published 19 September 23

News Rumours suggest it hasn't yet approved a GB101 chiplet version, but that the bulk of Nvidia's next-gen gaming cards will still be monolithic GPUs.

The ROG Ally gets a new Zen 4c chip and a worrying price tag

By Dave James published 18 September 23

News That's effectively half the Steam Deck's GPU for near twice the price.

Looks like Nvidia has effectively cut the RTX 4070 price to $550 in response to the RX 7800 XT

By Dave James published 15 September 23

news With so many retailers and manufacturers suddenly dropping the card to $550 it's hard to believe it's not somehow incentivised by Nvidia.

Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill

By Dave James published 14 September 23

News "Since Right to Repair can pass here, expect it to be on its way to a backyard near you," says iFixit CEO.

NeueChair office chair on a blank background

NeueChair review

By Dave James published 14 September 23

Not so Neue Still simply the best office chair for gaming.

Starfield NPC crowds surrounded by the bright signs of Neon

Bethesda says Nvidia DLSS support will come to Starfield in a 'regular interval of updates that have top community requested features'

By Dave James published 13 September 23

News Included in the patch notes of today's "small hotfix" is a list of top community requested features.

Intel predicts 'a resurgence' of external GPUs because of Thunderbolt 5's huge bandwidth increase

By Dave James published 12 September 23

news It's being classed as "the best version for creators and gamers."

I never wanted the RTX 3090 Super but I'm gutted to miss out on the cancelled prototype's stealthy all-black aesthetic

By Dave James published 11 September 23

news The 'Super' tag was too on the nose, but this sleek shroud has got to be revisited.

Realistic Nova 40 Headphones from the 1970s

Kurt Cobain's $20 headphones have been bought for $70,000

By Dave James published 11 September 23

news It's more about history than audio quality.

AMD says it's aware of Starfield's Ain't No Sunshine bug but currently has no timeline for a fix

By Dave James last updated 12 September 23

news But is also keen to point out that older GeForce GPUs, from at least the GTX 10-series down, are also suffering.

How to add DLSS and Frame Generation to Starfield

By Dave James published 8 September 23

Upmarket upscaling As well as whether you should...

Got a weird PC project in mind? Framework uncovered a hoard of old mainboards in an old factory and is selling them off cheap

By Dave James published 8 September 23

news The perfect base for any weird and/or wonderful custom PC build.

Okay game marketing, you win this round because this custom Starfield PC is stunning

By Dave James published 7 September 23

news So, turns out I'm a complete sucker for marketing.

Nintendo Switch 2 reportedly uses Nvidia's DLSS to boost frame rates

By Dave James published 7 September 23

News Behind closed doors developer demo of the upcoming hardware at Gamescom highlights Nvidia hardware.

AMD RX 7800 XT review

By Dave James published 6 September 23

Upper mid A multi-chip RX 6800 XT for less and the best $500 GPU around.