Latest articles by Dave James
Nvidia RTX 5070 hands-on preview: a sneak peek at my unreleased RTX Blackwell card hitting triple digit frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Avowed at 4K
Sneak peek Yes, that's the magic of Multi Frame Generation for you, and yes there is considerable competition on the horizon. But it's looking good, at least.
Best graphics card for laptops in 2025: the mobile GPUs I'd want in my next gaming laptop
Go mobile Helping you pick the right graphics silicon for your next laptop purchase.
Framework takes aim at 'janky, locked-down, disposable, underpowered, and frankly, boring' entry-level laptops with its new 12-inch touchscreen
News "This is a defining product for us, and we can't wait for you to try it."
Framework's first desktop PC is giving us the AMD Strix Halo machine we've been craving, and the opportunity to build our own
News The first modular desktop PC from Framework. What do you mean they're already modular? They're certainly not like this...
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti review (MSI Ventus 3X)
MSRIP A GPU with performance close to an RTX 5080 that's sadly set to be priced to oblivion.
MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC Plus graphics card review
Gouged The poster child for the great 5070 Ti Blackwell GPU screwjob.
The price gouging of Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti is utterly grotesque
Heels Every manufacturer is sniffing an opportunity to squeeze an extra chunk of cash out of PC gamers desperate for a scarce new card. And it sucks.
Presidents' Day PC gaming deals 2025: the best bargains available today
El Presidente Treat yourself this Presidents' Day with some great savings on TVs and the latest PC hardware.
Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance: From Nvidia's latest, past AMD's greatest, to Intel's failing silicon, this is what the game does to PCG's own rigs
We put our own machines through the ringer with the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, to lesser or greater success.
Best 14-inch gaming laptop in 2025: The top compact gaming laptops I've held in these hands
Smol The 14-inch form factor is the perfect nexus point between performance and portability.
The unwelcome workaround for Nvidia's RTX 50-series black screen issues is to hobble your gaming monitor with a 60 Hz refresh rate
News It's a temporary fix, but I don't like it one bit.
There is one thing making me excited about the new Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and no, it isn't Multi Frame Generation
Push it If the GPU at the heart of the RTX 5070 Ti can deliver the same level of overclocking it does with the RTX 5080 we could have a champ on our hands.
I'm genuinely stunned by the overclocking performance of the RTX 5080, and curious as to why Nvidia left so much headroom
OC hero Maybe I won the silicon lottery, but the GB203 sure looks like there was a lot of performance left on the table.
Newegg says the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 cards sold out 'in record time' with the retailer claiming its site was dealing with 'an 8-10x increase' in traffic
news Anecdotally we saw the cards vanish in under 5 minutes across the net.
Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition review
4080 Ti Super A strangely unexciting graphics card built almost entirely for the Multi Frame Gen gaming experience.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition review
All about the Gen A new graphics card built for silicon austerity and a new era of AI rendering.
Best graphics cards in 2025: the GPUs I recommend for every budget
Pixel Pushers Our picks of the most powerful gaming GPUs and the ones that provide the best bang for your buck.
Color me not-shocked: RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 goes out of stock across the US and UK in 5 minutes
News We knew stock would be tight, and lo it has come to pass.
Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 release day: join us for the picosecond where the new RTX Blackwell cards are in stock
Live I don't mean to be negative, but stock is tight and demand is high...
Now Nvidia's hardware blocks have been AI'd out of existence all it will take for Frame Generation support on RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs is 'further optimization and testing'
news The pros and cons of backporting Frame Gen to RTX 20- and 30-series graphics cards.
Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'
news It's all part of the process.
Here's how the new RTX 50-series cards perform against the previous generation of GeForce GPUs
Gen or render? And here's also why we're not getting the same sort of big frame rate bump we got out of the RTX 40-series: hardware is hard.
I'll say it: The best thing I saw from Nvidia at CES wasn't its sweet new GPUs, but some tasty AI every RTX gamer can enjoy
FPS in disguise The new transformer model for DLSS could be... er... kinda transformative.
