
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

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Powa The most performant gaming laptop of this generation, and RTX 5090 be damned.

Best 14-inch gaming laptop in 2025: The top compact gaming laptops I've held in these hands
By Dave James last updated
Smol The 14-inch form factor is the perfect nexus point between performance and portability.

Best 4K gaming monitors in 2025: the ultra hi-res panels I highly recommend
By Dave James last updated
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.

Check out this brilliant video breaking open a bricked Nintendo Switch 2 chip to see what makes it tick, and why we're looking at around Steam Deck GPU performance from the new console
By Dave James published
News Want to literally see inside the Switch 2's processor?

The best Mini-ITX PC case in 2025: the top tiny cases I've tested so far
By Dave James last updated
Mini but Mighty Go compact and cute with the best Mini-ITX PC cases.

Nvidia announces RTX 5060 release date of May 19 for both the $299 desktop GPU and $1,099 gaming laptops
By Dave James published
news The budget graphics silicon is hitting just before Computex... where another budget GPU beckons.

Best mechanical keyboards in 2025: the clacky boards I'd buy in a heartbeat
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Click Clack Make the switch with our guide to the best mechanical gaming keyboards.

Best gaming keyboards in 2025: the fastest, smoothest and loveliest boards I've tested
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Keyed in The best gaming keyboards have it all: style, ergonomics, and of course, the most satisfying clickity clacks.

MSI Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Gruntwork A classic gaming laptop that delivers on the frame rate promise of Nvidia's RTX 50-series, but not on the battery life.

The best audiophile headphones for gaming in 2025: my top recommendations for the best cans money can buy
By Dave James last updated
Audiophile Immerse yourself in your games with the best audiophile headphones for gaming.

Best PC joysticks in 2025: these are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
By Dave James last updated
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.

Oblivion struggling to nail 60 fps on my RTX 5090 was not on my 2025 bingo card, but without frame gen Oblivion Remastered's top settings bring the card to its knees
By Dave James published
Struggle pug Sticking everything on Ultra with a UE5 game was always going to be thus, I guess.

Framework 13 AMD AI 300-series review
By Dave James published
Morals vs your wallet The finest Framework around.

Best gaming PCs in 2025: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today
By Dave James last updated
Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.

Here are the Oblivion Remastered system specs: 'More friendly to gamers with modern hardware' and Steam Deck Verified
By Dave James published
News There's Lumen software and hardware ray tracing, so no RTX actually required.

Razer has pulled the pricing and pre-order pages for its new Blade laptops and I think it's pretty obvious what's happening here
By Dave James published
news Razer's taken down laptop pricing, new tariffs will make tech pricing higher, 2+2=4.

AMD RX 9070 XT vs Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti: This is 2025's graphics card battle royale
By Dave James published
Which of the modern graphics cards should you be dropping into your PC?

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Chomk Anachronistic gaming laptop style with RTX 5090-topping performance.

The focus on GPU efficiency over fps means this year's gaming laptops are capable of something they've never been good at
By Dave James published
Big boi gaming laptops with genuine gaming battery life was not what I expected from the class of '25.

Razer Blade 16 (2025) gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
Sharper than ever Simply the best gaming laptop I've ever used. So, how will Asus respond this time?

Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile tested: The needle hasn't moved on performance but this is the first time I'd consider ditching my desktop for a gaming laptop
By Dave James published
With Nvidia's focus on efficiency over raw performance gains there will be pushback, but this is the mobile gaming experience I've been after.

Best Spring Prime Day PC gaming deals in the UK
By Dave James last updated
Prime Day Deals Amazon's Spring Deal Days are kicking off tomorrow, but there are deals everywhere right now.

Colorful iGame RTX 5070 Ti Vulcan OC review
By Dave James published
Too much, man Pinning the moniker of the god of fire to an overclocked graphics card has gone about as well as you might expect.
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