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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These are the components we think offer the best bang for buck today.

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Deal Beating the Asus Zephyrus G14 on style, performance, and now pricing, too.

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All the kit to help you game like a professional.

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Score: 84% Expensive, and one of the best handheld gaming PCs, but c'mon, Microsoft, this is no Xbox.

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ROGer It's seriously quiet, real fast, and the Windows handheld experience mostly works. Mostly. But that price...

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Prime Day live We're ploughing on through the Big Deal Days sales, and there are still impressive discounts on GPUs, gaming laptops, PCs, SSDs, and monitors.

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Deal Egregious memory config cardinal sin aside, this is a great little gaming laptop.

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Prime Day Who woulda thought it?

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Precisely why? I can't help but feel this is more pro-gamer placebo than anything else.

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Deal Get 'em while they're vaguely affordable.

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So. Many. Buttons The Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE isn't just a pretty facia of many, many buttons.

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Wires Nope, you won't convince me this is a worthwhile thing. Wires are fine.

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Score: 81% An almost ludicrously expensive chair for those with discerning tastes. And spines.

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Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best prices for all the best graphics cards you should fit into your gaming PC.

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Smol The 14-inch form factor is the perfect nexus point between performance and portability.

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News The new Framework 16 has been announced with a backwards compatible RTX 5070 graphics module.

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Deal If you're after a top-quality compact desk, this beautiful and beautifully smooth desk is a banger.

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Score: 82% Corsair's buffed the rough edges off its first desk, and some of the width too, creating the best compact gaming desk you can buy.

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Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.

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Score: 77% Not a gaming rig, but a hell of an AI PC.

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Score: 87% The Vengeance line once more proves itself some of the best gaming PCs, even if it can't yoink the latest and greatest Corsair gear out the warehouse.

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Score: 91% Finally, a wireless headset to topple the all-conquering Cloud Alpha.
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