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
July's Windows 11 update could be the solution to your game stuttering woes
By Dave James published
News Microsoft finally catches up to the fact we've had 1,000Hz gaming mice since 2005.
The new OneXFly certainly makes the ROG Ally look like a chonky boi
By Dave James last updated
news This is the lightweight portable handheld gaming PC I've been waiting for.
Live now: the best Prime Day gaming laptop, PC, GPU, and monitor deals still around today
By Dave James last updated
Still live! As we count down to the end of Amazon Prime Day, we're live blogging all the best PC gaming deals you can still buy today.
'I see you're looking for a Prime Day PC gaming deal. Would you like help?'
By Dave James published
ClippAI Tom's Guide has deployed a ChatGPT-powered chatbot to help you find deals around Prime Day. Y'know, in case you're bored of our expert recommendations.
This is the essential Prime Day PC gaming upgrade I'd make today and it's just $60
By Dave James last updated
Deal As a PC gamer you always need more space. Games are getting bigger and an SSD is now becoming absolutely essential.
I've been building rigs for nearly 30 years but these sub-$1,000 Prime Day gaming PC deals are calling me
By Dave James published
Deal I love building PCs, but sometimes a prebuilt machine can make for a better starting point. And sometimes a less stressful experience, too.
The most tempting Prime Day gaming laptop deal feels so wrong... yet so right
By Dave James published
Deal The Asus Zephyrus G14 is one of the most beautiful compact gaming laptops around, and at less than $800 the RTX 3060 version is a great deal.
The best RTX 4080 notebook is also the best Prime Day gaming laptop deal so far
By Dave James published
Deal The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is my favorite gaming laptop from this new generation, and is a fantastic price right now.
Starfield partners with AMD and oh boy, the internet is not happy
By Dave James last updated
News Some folk are mourning a hypothetical lack of DLSS support, some expecting more classic Bethesda launch jank, some fear Jedi: Survivor level issues, and some just straight out call for a boycott of AMD.
Starfield is promised 'at least DLSS3 support in the Early Access 5 days' by pro modder PureDark
By Dave James published
News "According to AMD Sponsored games' tradition there won't be any DLSS support. But don't worry, you've got me."
The Diablo 4 team confirms DirectStorage isn't working in the game 'but we are planning on enabling it in the future'
By Dave James published
News Microsoft's funky SSD tech should be landing in Diablo 4 at some point.
AOKZOE A1 Pro review
By Dave James published
Big deck energy Definitely more than a Steam Deck, but better than an ROG Ally?
Intel's forcing its chip designers to pay market rates not mate's rates at its own fabs
By Dave James published
news Splitting the fab and products sides of Intel's business is both an effort in cost savings and enticing customers in to pay for its facilities.
The cheapest RTX 4070 Ti gaming PC around comes with a literally unbelievable $1,550 discount
By Dave James published
Deal At $1,750 this is a great price for a gaming PC offering RTX 3090-level frame rates for around the price of the old card on its own. Just take that hefty discount with a pinch of salt.
Did you know there's been a hidden 'last resort' Emergency restart button in Windows since Vista?
By Dave James published
News Am I the last person to find out about this, or are there other folk only finding this out now?
DockCase Pocket Smart SSD Enclosure review
By Dave James published
Smart A genuinely smart new home for your old Steam Deck SSD.
Leak suggests AMD's best laptop GPU delivers RTX 4070 desktop performance for less power
By Dave James published
News The power and efficiency of AMD's RDNA 3 architecture looks great in mobile form, but the jury's still out on the desktop side.
DrunkDeer A75 review
By Dave James published
You're drunk A lovely piece of hardware hugely let down by its frustratingly limited software.
Windows 11's latest endearing mess rigorously and wrongly enforces Britishisms
By Dave James published
news Microsoft's patchwork OS will now sometimes auto-translate Zip files to postcode files for UK users.
Intel claims 'substantial' CPU core speed boost in Meteor Lake test chip 'for just moving wires around'
By Dave James published
news In the silicon world, the sandwich vs. pizza debate is real.
If you've got a modern Gigabyte motherboard there's a BIOS setting you need to disable to avoid PC's latest security calamity
By Dave James last updated
News Gigabyte is also in the process of uploading beta BIOS fixes which should mitigate the issue.
Computex 2023: all the biggest stories from the Taiwan tech show
By Dave James last updated
Computex 2023 We're on the ground out in Taipei to give you the lowdown on the biggest show in PC hardware.
This new PC case is giving real 3D printer vibes and I guess that might be my new 'thing'
By Dave James published
news I'm really into this Azza Sanctum design. Just remember not to squeeze your extruded plastic into the wrong glass box, eh?