
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

Asus and MSI have now both clarified the RTX 5070 Ti hasn't received an end-of-life status
By Dave James published
new Asus has officially echoed its response to us yesterday and MSI has confirmed it has "no plans to EoL anything."

Best office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested
By Dave James last updated
Take a seat Take care of your spine with the best office chairs for gaming.

Best mechanical keyboards in 2026: 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.

The best Mini-ITX PC case in 2026: 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.

Best curved monitors for gaming in 2026: These are the bendy displays I'd plant myself in front of
By Dave James last updated
Bendy Immerse yourself to the max with these vision-enclosing panels.

Best mini PCs in 2026: The compact computers I love the most
By Al Bickham last updated
Teeny Peecees Searching for a new super-compact gaming machine? Look no further.

Best 4K gaming monitors in 2026: 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.

Best gaming motherboards in 2026: these are the AMD and Intel mobos I'd build a system around today
By Dave James last updated
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.

Best graphics card for laptops in 2026: the mobile GPUs I'd want in my next gaming laptop
By Dave James last updated
Go mobile Helping you pick the right graphics silicon for your next laptop purchase.

Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
By Dave James last updated
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.

Best gaming laptop 2026: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend
By Dave James last updated
Portable powerhouses From our own extensive testing, rigorously benchmarking 40+ machines over the past two years, these are the best gaming laptops you can buy today.

Best SSD for gaming in 2026: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC
By Dave James last updated
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
By Dave James last updated
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks, just to see which is worth your money.

Best gaming PCs in 2026: 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.

Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 looks great and all but I'm surprised at just how much extra power it demands from your graphics card
By Dave James published
news Looking at them side-by-side, you can see just how much more juice the new transformer model can demand.

Lego's smart new 2x4 Smart Brick packs a custom ASIC, speaker, and synthesiser created by 'an expert team from the worlds of video gaming, computing... and more'
By Dave James published
CES 2026 "You might hear our Smart Brick roaring like a jet plane or flushing like a toilet."

Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years
By Dave James published
CES 2026 "A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."

Nvidia's promising '4K 240 Hz path traced gaming' with DLSS 4.5 but do you want 6x Multi Frame Gen?
By Dave James published
CES 2026 It's convinced the 2nd gen Transformer model is good enough that you will.

Alienware promises it's not 'cutting corners on the things that matter the most' with its new entry-level gaming laptops
By Dave James published
CES 2026 So, lots of RAM then, eh?

Alienware is taking on Razer and Asus with its new ultra slim 'covert' gaming laptop tease
By Dave James published
CES 2026 "It's a little more covert" than your traditional Alienware... like a Dell laptop maybe.

'Quite frankly it was missing one thing': Alienware has fixed one of the biggest issues with its Area-51 gaming PC
By Dave James published
CES 2026 The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D is part of the Alienware's CES 2026 party.

MSI's brilliant new QD-OLED screen fixes one of the biggest issues with OLED gaming monitors
By Dave James published
CES 2026 Fixed front fringing, light absorption, and the best HDR we've seen to date.

PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
By Dave James published
winners! We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.
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