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

By Andy Edser Last updated
News Still, CES 2027, perhaps?

By Dave James Last updated
Deal If you're looking around for a GPU upgrade this 8 GB RTX 5060 Ti is at its lowest ever price.

By Dave James Published
news Not many have been made, the device is hella expensive, and Windows is not made for the living room while Steam OS is. Otherwise, great news.

By Dave James Last updated
Prime Day The past two decades of being a PC hardware journalist has brought me here.

By Dave James Published
Prime Day Sure, it's all relative to your budget, but if you're in the market these deals are nearly too good to pass up.

By Dave James Published
GTA 6 Or will you double dip... as Rockstar wants?

By Dave James Published
Prime Day It's now a $1,200+ graphics card, and with the prices of RAM and storage at an all-time high, any discount is worth chasing.

By Dave James Published
Prime Day The RX 9070, our pick as the best graphics card to buy right now, is getting mighty close to MSRP.

By Dave James Published
Prime Day I've been recommending this gaming chair every sales event since it launched in 2024, and it's a damned bargain this year.

By Dave James Published
Prime Day You'll have to sign up to Prime, but this is a bargain price for the best wireless gaming headset you can buy.

By Dave James Published
News It's potentially good news for owners, but will potentially become a balancing act of performance vs fidelity.

By Dave James Published
Prime Day It may be a lower-spec 85 W RTX 5070, but we've not seen a sub-$1,000 machine like this for a loooong time.

By Dave James Last updated
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.

By Dave James Last updated
Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...

By Fraser Brown Published
No quick fixes PC Gamer's writers and editors tackle the impending ban on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook.

By Dave James Published
Prime Day 2026 Newegg's Price Protection guarantee and Best Buy's Price Match mean you could shop today and maybe reap the benefits of any discounts tomorrow.

By Dave James Published
Computex 2026 I was frustrated at the lack of chips with the 10 Xe-core B370 iGPU in affordable laptops, and now I know why I'm even more frustrated.

By Dave James Published
Computex 2026 "We understand that both for CPUs and GPUs, overclockability is a core part of what many of our gamers and enthusiasts are looking for."

By Dave James Published
Computex 2026 I spoke with David McAfee about what it took to bring back the older chip.

By Dave James Published
Computex 2026 The Framework 13 Pro is a sleek, stylish machine lazer-focused on software devs sick of MacOS.

By Dave James Published
Computex 2026 Remarkably, playing Pragmata and Indiana Jones via Prism's emulation wasn't really any different.

By Dave James Published
Computex 2026 Keychron's even using it's new MagOptic mouse switch in its office mice, "if they don't use, they don't use it, but it still performs like a normal mouse."

By Dave James Published
Computex 2026 Not content with that, Keychron is also rocking the world's lowest of low-profile magnetic keyboards.
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