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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Cyber Monday PC gaming deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
We're curating the best deals on gaming PCs, laptops, graphics cards, chairs, and peripherals for you.
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Cyber Monday gaming PC deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is gone and the Cyber Week gaming PC deals are here to do battle!
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Cyber Monday gaming headset deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale right now.
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Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is passed, so I guess that makes the rest of this week Cyber Week.
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Cyber Monday SSD deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is all over but the SSD deals are still flying in thick and fast in Cyber Week.
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Cyber Week graphics card deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
We're jumping out of the Black Friday frying pan into the Cyber Week GPU deals fire.
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Cyber Week gaming monitor deals 2023: big screen, ultrawide, or 4K, it's all here
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday isn't really over, the discounts continue right through Cyber Monday and into Cyber Week.
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I've been doing this for 18 years and I'm still picking out the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals
By Dave James last updated
With near two decades of experience as a PC gaming tech journalist, and a bunch of that contending with the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday has to offer, I've got your back picking the best deals.
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Whether or not you're handy with a screwdriver, you can get a great RTX 4060 gaming laptop for under $800 this Cyber Monday
By Dave James last updated
What price convenience? Would you pay $50 to have a $20 RAM kit installed into a budget gaming laptop for you?
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The best sub-$1,000 Cyber Monday RTX 4070 gaming laptop deal is inexplicably even cheaper than it was on Black Friday
By Dave James published
The TUF laptops may be Asus' more affordable systems, but there are few compromises here to explain that low price.
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Black Friday PC gaming deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
It's all over! Black Friday has ended but everyone is still competing for your attention and money with these deals.
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Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday has been and gone, but we'll keep the deals up here for now.
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Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is taking over the Black Friday deals, but there are still serious price drops on everything from 4K gaming monitors to budget panels.
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Black Friday SSD deals 2023
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Wave goodbye to Black Friday but say hello to all the great deals on SSDs still around.
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Black Friday gaming PC deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday itself may be over, but competition between retailers is still breeding some great PC deals.
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I've been doing this for 18 years and these are the Black Friday PC gaming deals I'm still into right now
By Dave James last updated
With near two decades of experience as a PC gaming tech journalist, and a bunch of that dealing with the best Black Friday has to offer, I've got your back picking the best deals.
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After spending 41% of my life as a tech journalist I can tell you these are STILL the best Black Friday gaming laptops under $1,000
By Dave James last updated
"No, mom, I've not wasted my life... yes. Yes, I know he's a doctor now."
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Yet ANOTHER price cut has made our favorite Black Friday gaming laptop deal even better today
By Dave James published
Seriously, if it carries on like this Lenovo is just going to start giving it away.
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Judge me by size, do you? I say 14-inchers make the best Black Friday gaming laptop purchase
By Dave James last updated
If I'm looking to buy the best gaming laptop, I'm spending my money on a 14-inch machine.
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I use this microphone every single day, and at just $35 it's a Black Friday deal, it's a steal, it's the sale of the [expletive deleted] century
By Dave James published
The Razer Seiren Mini is cute, cheap, and surprisingly good.
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Our favorite gaming monitor and a mighty OLED at that is as cheap as we've ever seen it for Black Friday
By Dave James published
At $800, this superb OLED gaming monitor is the same price it was discounted at for Prime Day, and a great deal versus some other OLED panels.
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For just $750 here's a high-spec all-AMD gaming laptop with a rare Radeon GPU that will smash any RTX 4050 machine
By Dave James published
Sitting between an RTX 4050 and RTX 4060 in terms of gaming performance this 1200p gaming laptop punches well above its weight class.
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Nvidia RTX 4060 vs RTX 3060 and its 7 other biggest rival GPUs
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
Head-to-head Here's how the GeForce RTX 4060 stacks up against the previous generation, its Ada compatriots, and its AMD rivals in our tests.