
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

It's been on sale for 3 years, but the HyperX Cloud Alpha is still the best wireless headset and its got itself a Memorial Day discount
By Jess Kinghorn published
Deal It's only ever been $10 cheaper by my reckoning.

I'm all-in for this all-AMD gaming PC, sporting the best gaming CPU of last generation, the mighty RX 9070 XT, and a $400 price cut
By Dave James published
Deal That is a powerful CPU/GPU combo and means you can be safe in the knowledge you're rocking its best chips from the last two AMD generations.

Nvidia RTX 5060 review live: looks like the 8 GB of VRAM isn't the biggest issue the new card has to face
By Dave James last updated
Live! You're going to learn how the new Nvidia GPU performs alongside me, isn't that exciting? No? Just me then.

This MSI machine is the cheapest way to get a great RTX 5080 gaming laptop right now and it's stonkingly quick for the cash
By Dave James published
Deal 240 Hz, RTX 5080, $2,275? Yep, I'll take it.

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Score: 87% The most performant gaming laptop of this generation, and RTX 5090 be damned.

Check out this brilliant video breaking open a bricked Nintendo Switch 2 chip to see what makes it tick, and why we're looking at around Steam Deck GPU performance from the new console
By Dave James published
News Want to literally see inside the Switch 2's processor?

This is the first big discount I've found on RTX 50-series gaming laptops, and it's a version of one I've enjoyed testing myself
By Dave James published
The MSI Vector 16 HX AI is a quality machine and this RTX 5070 Ti spec looks super solid for its $400 discount.

Nvidia announces RTX 5060 release date of May 19 for both the $299 desktop GPU and $1,099 gaming laptops
By Dave James published
news The budget graphics silicon is hitting just before Computex... where another budget GPU beckons.

MSI Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Score: 83% A classic gaming laptop that delivers on the frame rate promise of Nvidia's RTX 50-series, but not on the battery life.

Best PC joysticks in 2025: these are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
By Dave James last updated
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.

Oblivion struggling to nail 60 fps on my RTX 5090 was not on my 2025 bingo card, but without frame gen Oblivion Remastered's top settings bring the card to its knees
By Dave James published
Struggle pug Sticking everything on Ultra with a UE5 game was always going to be thus, I guess.

Framework 13 AMD AI 300-series laptop review
By Dave James published
Score: 87% The finest Framework around.

Here are the Oblivion Remastered system specs: 'More friendly to gamers with modern hardware' and Steam Deck Verified
By Dave James published
News There's Lumen software and hardware ray tracing, so no RTX actually required.

Origin Neuron gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Not so Origin-inal My first taste of an Origin gaming PC isn't so sweet as I'd hoped.

Razer has pulled the pricing and pre-order pages for its new Blade laptops and I think it's pretty obvious what's happening here
By Dave James published
news Razer's taken down laptop pricing, new tariffs will make tech pricing higher, 2+2=4.

AMD RX 9070 XT vs Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti: This is 2025's graphics card battle royale
By Dave James published
Which of the modern graphics cards should you be dropping into your PC?

To celebrate World Back Up day allow me to present to you a 2 TB SSD for under 5 cents per GB
By Dave James published
Deal If you want MOAR STORAGE, how about 4 TB for just over 5 cents per GB?

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Score: 78% Anachronistic gaming laptop style with RTX 5090-topping performance.

The focus on GPU efficiency over fps means this year's gaming laptops are capable of something they've never been good at
By Dave James published
Big boi gaming laptops with genuine gaming battery life was not what I expected from the class of '25.

Razer Blade 16 (2025) gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Score: 90% Simply the best gaming laptop I've ever used. So, how will Asus respond this time?

Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile tested: The needle hasn't moved on performance but this is the first time I'd consider ditching my desktop for a gaming laptop
By Dave James published
With Nvidia's focus on efficiency over raw performance gains there will be pushback, but this is the mobile gaming experience I've been after.

Colorful iGame RTX 5070 Ti Vulcan OC review
By Dave James published
Too much, man Pinning the moniker of the god of fire to an overclocked graphics card has gone about as well as you might expect.

XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 OC graphics card review
By Dave James published
Price hike With $100 tacked onto the initial $549 price tag—at least—the RX 9070 becomes a hard card to love.
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