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

The holy THOCK of Awekeys' Full Metal Keycaps cannot make up for the fact that I'm a terrible typist
By Dave James published
Fully🤘Metal They're all metal, all the time. But the blank set has frustrated me, and the premium price is hard to swallow despite their utterly premium feel.

Dezctop Bifrost Elite 160 gaming desk review
By Dave James published
Stay Frosty A sturdy standing desk, but it's got a fight on its hands trying to topple Secretlab's mighty Magnus.

Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node
By Dave James published
news The Intel 20A process seems like it's going to go down in history as purely a test platform for backside power and GAAFET.

Possibly one of the cutest and definitely the cheapest way to bag an RTX 4070 GPU this Labor Day
By Dave James published
deal A heavy splash of RGB and a powder pink shroud... I'd say that's worth another 10% higher frame rate, right?

Labor Day PC gaming deals 2024: the best bargains available today
By Dave James last updated
Labor Day Treat yourself this Labor Day with some great savings on gaming monitors, laptops, and the latest PC hardware.

No other laptop maker would let me cannibalise the best bit of its new machine the way Framework does and that's a damned shame
By Dave James published
🦄 The new Framework laptop display is exactly why I love its products.

This Nvidia GPU paired with one of the best AMD Zen 4 CPUs feels like we're finally getting the sub-$1,000 gaming PCs we deserve
By Dave James published
deal With RTX 4060 Ti and Ryzen 7 7700 silicon inside, this is peak $1,000 PC.

Framework 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) laptop review
By Dave James published
Step back Lots of improvements, but fundamentally a weaker proposition than the Ryzen mainboard.

New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added
By Dave James published
news "Added support for extra ROG Ally keys" is music to my ears.

I can't decide which of these $2,000 RTX 4080 Super gaming PCs I'd rather pick *checks feed* oh wait, yeah it'll be the AMD one
By Dave James published
deal The fact that an RTX 4080 Super gaming PC for under $2,000 isn't an isolated incident is pleasing.

How to add DLSS and Frame Generation to Starfield
By Dave James last updated
Upmarket upscaling As well as whether you should...

Best VPN for gaming
By Abigail Shannon last updated
Stealth Mode Prevent DDoS attacks, secure your devices, boost your speed, and get games for bargain prices – all with a gaming VPN. Here are my top picks.

The 11 Prime Day PC gaming deals that have been the most popular with you fine PC Gamer readers
By Dave James published
Prime Day Crunching the numbers and parsing the data, we've finally figured out what it is you lot like: a lot of headsets, 4K monitors, and gaming chairs. And, of course, the best gaming laptop.

Inexplicably Best Buy has slashed the price of this RTX 4070 Blade 14 AGAIN. With a $1,000 discount this Prime Day Razer gaming laptop deal is surprisingly competitive
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Prime Day A Blade that's actually not at a price premium compared with similarly specced laptops? What timeline is this?

I've been gaming with the Audeze Maxwell solidly for over a year and there is no better-sounding gaming headset deal I could recommend
By Dave James published
Prime Day The planar magnetic drivers deliver simply stunning audio, whether for gaming or music.

If you want to go all Corsair, all the time, it's slapped $600 off Vengeance systems in the Prime Day gaming PC sale
By Dave James published
Prime Day The Vengeance range of are not the cheapest, but they've been our go-to recommendation for high-end prebuilt PCs for an age.

Fight me: 14-inch is peak gaming laptop and these are the only Prime Day gaming laptop deals I'd personally consider buying today
By Dave James published
Prime Day If I'm buying a gaming laptop it's because I want something portable and for me only the 14-inch form factor truly delivers.

I'm a little obsessed with the Razer Blade laptops and these latest Prime Day gaming deals are painfully tempting
By Dave James published
Prime Day It's the cheapest we've seen the gorgeous Blade 15 going for.

Here's your reminder that the best RTX 4080 gaming laptop is still the best Prime Day gaming laptop deal too
By Dave James published
Prime Day The RTX 4080-toting Legion Pro 7i may have a last-gen Intel chip inside it, but its powerful GPU is right up there with the best.

My favorite compact enthusiast gaming keyboard—and the one I use every single day—is a Prime Day bargain
By Dave James published
Prime Day The Mountain Everest 60 may not have the caché of Logitech, Keychron, or Razer, but this hot-swappable keeb is a stunner.

The Tony Blair Insitute 'did not simply ask ChatGPT for the results' of its AI impact report, it trained its own version of ChatGPT instead
By Andy Edser last updated
news If there's one thing I trust, its AI predictions. Said nobody ever.

When you've got gaming laptops for $599 and PCs for $699, Walmart is weirdly the best place for pre-Prime Day PC gaming deals
By Dave James published
deal Never thought I'd be saying that.

The latest Windows update means Notepad might now be my favourite word processor
By Dave James published
news Having not really been updated since 1983, Notepad is getting rich features without losing its essence.
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