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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Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.

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DIY Pick the products from our latest recommendations.

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Deals Our regularly curated list of all the best gaming laptop deals you'll find today.

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News The versatile Steam Frame's focus is "on being lightweight and being comfortable".

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Support Based on decades of team experience and expert knowledge we're here helping PC gamers navigate the pricing crisis.

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News Nvidia is reportedly prepping a new version of the RTX 5070 potentially using failed RTX 5070 Ti or RTX 5080 cores.

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News DLSS Neural Rendering is being developed hard in the modding community.

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News A new app allows you to inject DLSS Neural Rendering deep into games even if you're running an AMD card. You probably won't want to, though.

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Neuroses And here's how I did it.

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Bloody work The recommended specs are a little over-generous so here are the settings I reckon you can compromise to gain some extra performance.

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Looking at the PlayStation 5 capture, we're noodling on just what extra shinies Rockstar might add to the best gaming platform's version.

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News Nvidia might also be doing the smart thing a rebranding the whole DLSS 5 pitch as DLSS Neural Rendering

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Nvidia has rounded out the DLSS 4.5 stack… now where's DLSS 5?

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news One of the biggest manufacturers of graphics cards has noted in its results that the second half of this year is going to suck for GPUs.

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Pixel Pushers I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.

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Portable PC PC gaming is officially portable now, and these handheld gaming PCs are the best around.

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Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.

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Quality cans Treat your ears to some audio treacle with the best gaming headsets.

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Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.

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Poll That's lucky, because the next generation of GPUs is probably going to start at $600...

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On a budget It's not that the 7700X3D is a bad chip, but the value proposition of Intel's CPUs is mighty tempting for a budget gamer.

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Score: 82% Not a DIY play, but could be the basis for bundles and budget pre-built gaming PCs.
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