Latest articles by Dave James
A simple Windows 11 shortcut has changed my view of PC HDR gaming: Win+Alt+B
HDAAAAAH So, I'm a HDR guy now.
It's apparently down to AMD whether Nvidia releases its RTX 50-series GPUs in 2024 or not
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 review
Doh Just as stunning a screen as Dough's original glossy display... and that's the issue.
Lenovo Legion 9i (Gen8) gaming laptop review
Legion Legend Intel Core i9 13980HX | RTX 4090 (175W) | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 2TB SSD | $3,693 | £3,950
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
Deal Free delivery will see the MSI Vector get to you before the big day.
Intel's unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers 'on a technical basis' but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind
news Bringing its desktop and laptop Arc drivers together means everyone will benefit from every performance bump Intel's engineers can deliver.
Intel's slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance
news To get an 'Arc Graphics' sticker, your Core Ultra laptop has to be dual-channel with 16GB of memory.
Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
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.
Watch out Razer, Asus' switch from plastic to an all-metal unibody gaming laptop design was hidden in plain sight all along
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.
If GTA 6 isn't coming to PC until 2026 this is what a top-end gaming rig should look like when it does
Tech dreams With a PC release not likely until 2026 here's the hardware that will be cutting edge when we hit the state of Leonida.
I've been doing this for 18 years and I'm still picking out the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals
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.
Whether or not you're handy with a screwdriver, you can get a great RTX 4060 gaming laptop for under $800 this Cyber Monday
What price convenience? Would you pay $50 to have a $20 RAM kit installed into a budget gaming laptop for you?
The best sub-$1,000 Cyber Monday RTX 4070 gaming laptop deal is inexplicably even cheaper than it was on Black Friday
The TUF laptops may be Asus' more affordable systems, but there are few compromises here to explain that low price.
I've been doing this for 18 years and these are the Black Friday PC gaming deals I'm still into right now
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.
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
"No, mom, I've not wasted my life... yes. Yes, I know he's a doctor now."
Yet ANOTHER price cut has made our favorite Black Friday gaming laptop deal even better today
Seriously, if it carries on like this Lenovo is just going to start giving it away.
Judge me by size, do you? I say 14-inchers make the best Black Friday gaming laptop purchase
If I'm looking to buy the best gaming laptop, I'm spending my money on a 14-inch machine.
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
The Razer Seiren Mini is cute, cheap, and surprisingly good.
Our favorite gaming monitor and a mighty OLED at that is as cheap as we've ever seen it for Black Friday
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.
For just $750 here's a high-spec all-AMD gaming laptop with a rare Radeon GPU that will smash any RTX 4050 machine
Sitting between an RTX 4050 and RTX 4060 in terms of gaming performance this 1200p gaming laptop punches well above its weight class.
Nvidia RTX 4060 vs RTX 3060 and its 7 other biggest rival GPUs
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.
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