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
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Watch the Nvidia CES 2024 livestream right here: It's about to get Super interesting
By Dave James published
CES 2024 The worst-kept secret in PC gaming hardware is expected to be unveiled at the Nvidia Special Address today: 8am PT/11am ET, and 4pm UK time.
![AMD's CEO Lisa Su at CES 2020](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qDK99x7KtDSDHFZjKX9dj3-320-80.jpg)
Watch the AMD CES 2024 livestream right here: new APUs, GPUs, and 3D chips expected
By Dave James published
CES 2024 AMD's Advancing AI PCs in 2024 event is streaming from 7am PT/10am ET, and 3pm UK time.
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NY Times lawsuit holds OpenAI and Microsoft 'responsible for the billions of dollars they owe for the unlawful copying and use of The Times's uniquely valuable works'
By Dave James published
news OpenAI values high-quality content in its training and The New York Times has been marked as such in the creation of its models.
![Razer's new OLED and 4K gaming laptop screens](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yzbs7vsHjTBtPXfzjvCZzL-320-80.jpg)
It's only a few days into 2024 and Razer's already dropping a couple of 'world's firsts' ahead of CES
By Dave James published
news It's new OLED and 4K gaming laptop screens look the business.
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The best UPS battery backup for PC gaming in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Amped up The best UPS, or uninterruptible power supply, will safeguard your PC from unexpected power loss and surges.
![Year 2024 on an abstract flowing binary code background with dotted lines and glowing lights. New Year 2024 celebration concept.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bYMXsptXHJBCv3Pb93SGSQ-320-80.jpg)
The PC Gamer tech team's New Year's resolutions
By Nick Evanson published
Promises, promises What do you mean? Of course we'll stick to them!
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I lost my head and lubed a mechanical keyboard switch. Help
By Dave James last updated
Lubin' Asus made me do it, though now I need never do it again.
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The PC Gamer Needlessly Terrible Hardware Naming Awards 2023: Our favourite awful names for otherwise reasonable products
By Andy Edser published
Awful It's award season here at PC Gamer, and we'd be remiss if we didn't point out some of the very best terrible, awful, no-good product names we've seen.
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PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2023: The winners
By Dave James published
The winners All the winners from the best tech released and tested in the past 12 months of PC gaming.
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What we want to see from PC gaming tech in 2024
By Dave James published
Heart's desire The past 12 months haven't been the most inspiring, so join us in hoping for better from the year ahead.
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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboards of 2023
By Dave James published
Gear of the year
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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best motherboard of 2023
By Dave James published
Gear of the Year It's not the sexiest piece of PC componentry but where would you be without the unsung heroes of PC gaming?
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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptops of 2023
By Dave James published
Gear of the year It's been a landmark year for gaming laptops, whether you want the absolute top-end monster machine, or an affordable mobile gamer, 2023 has delivered.
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The biggest hardware surprise of 2023 for me was how damned good Lenovo Legion laptops are now
By Dave James published
Gear of the Year I used to be team Razer, but now I think I'm part of the Legion.
![Nvidia Shield device superimposed on a Cyberpunk 2077 screenshot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2EjnMHCRgTtKtiRp4yZmpK-320-80.jpg)
A simple Windows 11 shortcut has changed my view of PC HDR gaming: Win+Alt+B
By Dave James last updated
HDAAAAAH So, I'm a HDR guy now.
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It's apparently down to AMD whether Nvidia releases its RTX 50-series GPUs in 2024 or not
By Dave James published
News Insiders suggest Nvidia has the RTX 5090 prepped for release at the end of 2024 "if we want it to."
![Dough Spectrum One Gorilla Glass gaming monitor](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4qzwSx5oViP9USoMUqxdNg-320-80.jpg)
Dough Spectrum One (Gorilla Glass) gaming monitor review
By Dave James published
Doh Just as stunning a screen as Dough's original glossy display... and that's the issue.
![Lenovo Legion 9i gaming laptop](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5STfLbHYstpm9EGNMyqkdT-320-80.jpg)
Lenovo Legion 9i (Gen8) gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Legion Legend Intel Core i9 13980HX | RTX 4090 (175W) | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 2TB SSD | $3,693 | £3,950
![MSI gaming laptop on a blue background.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pgT49sXeCbLvtkAEFtUZza-320-80.jpg)
This is your weekly reminder that you can bag an RTX 4080 gaming laptop for less than $1,600 and still get it before Christmas
By Dave James published
Deal Free delivery will see the MSI Vector get to you before the big day.
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PC gaming's biggest disappointments of 2023
By Robin Valentine published
LAME OF THE YEAR Let me down gently.
![Intel Core Ultra CPU in a hand](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tC86QEz9XkFxq5YEwjawTo-320-80.jpg)
Intel's unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers 'on a technical basis' but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind
By Dave James published
news Bringing its desktop and laptop Arc drivers together means everyone will benefit from every performance bump Intel's engineers can deliver.
![Intel Meteor Lake CPU](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FmCt59pCgu2ynSpLTzFie7-320-80.jpg)
Intel's slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance
By Dave James published
news To get an 'Arc Graphics' sticker, your Core Ultra laptop has to be dual-channel with 16GB of memory.
![Intel Meteor Lake CPU](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qr2wbBpWWySKuox8g3UVn7-320-80.jpg)
Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
By Dave James published
news I mean, obviously it's beating the Ryzen 7 7840U in Intel benchmarks, but it means I now can't wait to get my hands on a new Core Ultra laptop to really see what it can do.
![Asus ROG Zephyrus new laptop design](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9Rth4pBkMWgitNqPJ6aDyY-320-80.jpg)
Watch out Razer, Asus' switch from plastic to an all-metal unibody gaming laptop design was hidden in plain sight all along
By Dave James published
news We thought Asus' CES 2024 teaser trailer didn't say much, but by ditching the plastic chassis for metal it's going toe-to-toe with the Razer Blade aesthetic.