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
OneXPlayer 2 Pro handheld gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Too much A big boi gaming handheld that wants to be your laptop too. And arguably fails to be either.
Presidents' Day PC gaming deals 2024: the best bargains available today
By Dave James last updated
El Presidente Treat yourself this Presidents' Day with some great savings on TVs and the latest PC hardware.
Best wireless gaming headsets in 2024: the top cans I'd buy myself
By Dave James last updated
Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.
Best gaming headsets in 2024: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
By Dave James last updated
Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.
Best gaming monitors in 2024: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
By Dave James last updated
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.
These hefty RTX 4070 Ti and RX 7900 XT graphics card deals are asking one key question: Do you want more memory or ray-traced gaming performance?
By Dave James published
Deal We're looking at big discounts on two tasty GPUs, but which is right for you?
Best gaming chairs in 2024: the seats I'd suggest for any gamer
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Take a seat Treat your posterior to one of the best gaming chairs.
Gamers with ravenous RAM appetites rejoice, this RTX 4070 gaming PC with 32GB of DDR5 is under $1,200
By Dave James published
Deal And it's pretty damned quick memory, too.
There's one thing gaming laptops need to learn from Valve, Lenovo, and Ayaneo handhelds: Trust us
By Dave James published
Take the power back The level of granular control over the hardware inside modern handheld gaming PCs is a million miles away from that available to gaming laptops.
Asus TUF Gaming RTX 4080 Super review
By Dave James published
Why pay more? If you can't get your hands on a Founders Edition, Asus' MSRP TUF boi is an excellent alternative.
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition review
By Dave James published
RTX Rehab With the same performance, but a $200 haircut, the RTX 4080 Super is a necessary rehabilitation of the maligned RTX 4080.
Best CPU coolers in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
Framework 16 modular gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
💕 You're buying for the promise, not the performance. But when the potential is this damned enticing it's hard to resist.
MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super Ventus 3X review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Superseder A solid upgrade with a superior spec, but there's an asterisk.
The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Budding gamers So you finally managed to bag a Steam Deck or ROG Ally, now what are the best gaming earbuds to go with it?
The best PC cases in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Best Case You'll want the best PC case if you're building your perfect gaming PC.
PNY RTX 4070 Super XLR8 review
By Dave James published
OC? A quality GPU but more proof, if any more were needed, of the irrelevance of factory overclocked graphics cards.
I wish Nvidia had been brave enough to kill the RTX 4070
By Dave James published
Courage/convictions The new RTX 4070 Super is a quality GPU, getting close to RTX 4070 Ti performance, but suffers because Nvidia has kept the RTX 4070 alive.
Nvidia RTX 4070 Super review
By Dave James published
Suped up A healthy GPU upgrade delivering RTX 3080 Ti beating gaming performance for half the power.
XGIMI Horizon Ultra projector review
By Dave James published
Bright boi This super-bright beamer delivers a stunning 4K HDR image and excels in gaming.
AMD's any-game frame generation tech is officially launching out of beta with the RX 7600 XT release on January 24
By Dave James published
CES 2024 Hidden in the CES 2024 press deck are details of the imminent release of AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) into the official Radeon driver stack.
AMD has finally brought software-based frame generation to handheld gaming PCs and the Radeon 700M iGPUs
By Dave James published
news The latest AMD Fluid Motion Frames preview driver lists support for the integrated GPU found in both its best mobile chips and the new Ryzen 8000G APUs.