Latest articles by Dave James
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
Where does your PC live? There is obviously one correct answer, can you pick it out?
Poll Don't hide your gaming light under a bushel. Or a desk.
71% of you say you could never be convinced to turn on DLSS 5, with 37% saying it wouldn't matter how good it looked
Polls Back to the drawing board, Jen-Hsun?
43% of you have, or will be switching to gaming on Linux this year, but more surprising than that over a quarter of you actually don't mind Windows
Polls Aww bless, Windows is really not that bad after all is it? But Linux is fun.
I turned my gaming laptop into a PC Gamer bug out kit
Prepping Prepping for the coming apocalypse with Project NOMAD.
Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
DIY Pick the products from our latest recommendations.
Best gaming keyboards in 2026: we've tested the latest Hall effect, mechanical, TKL, 60% and more
Keyed in The best gaming keyboards, according to our testers.
Best CPU for gaming in 2026: These are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.
I really thought Nvidia's DLSS 5 was going to be smarter than this
News The latest details suggest a real disconnect between the ground truth of a game and the DLSS 5 layer.
The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2026: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears
Budding gamers So you finally managed to bag a Steam Deck or ROG Ally, now what are the best gaming earbuds to go with it?
Nvidia DLSS 5 reveal: PC Gamer reacts... not wholly positively
So... DLSS 5 This has been one of the most controversial reveals of an Nvidia technology I can remember, and people have a lot of thoughts.
Nvidia has just shown off DLSS 5 coming this fall... and currently it looks a lot like an AI filter
News At the GTC keynote, Jen-Hsun has just showed off the AI-enhancement of DLSS 5.
Nvidia GTC live: Jen-Hsun lays out 'the future of real-time rendering' in today's keynote and potentially 'it's gonna blow your mind'
Live Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference kicks off this week, with a leather-clad keynote from the company's CEO.
Here's 8 minutes in nostalgic benchmark heaven, with me running 3DMark2001 on an RTX 5090 to celebrate its 25th birthday
Released March 13, 2001 MadOnion's 3DMark 2001 was an instant PC graphics classic.
The one thing using a $1,337 gaming mouse has taught me is: we've come a long way from the old Razer Boomslang, baby
Boom and bust The Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition has missed its true anniversary by a long shot and honestly kinda missed the mark for me.
I'm a Linux bore now, so I used my new powers to resurrect a ten year-old laptop forgotten by Windows
Resurrection It was all going so well...
Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some audio treacle with the best gaming headsets.
'Credible and reliable contacts' claim Nvidia is releasing an RTX 5090-beating GPU around September time this year
news Sources from different countries and different companies suggest this is happening, and y'know what, I don't doubt it.
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU review
Score: 87% A factory overclocked golden sample for a modest premium.
AMD's unannounced dual-CCD 3D V-Cache monster chip appears in official AMD docs
news The new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has shown up in an EEC listing from Friday.
Asus is NOT killing off the RTX 5070 Ti as Asus issues statment saying 'certain media may have received incomplete information'
news Hardware Unboxed cited conversations it's had with Asus over the EoL status it has applied to the RTX 5070 Ti. Asus says, no we haven't.
Asus and MSI have now both clarified the RTX 5070 Ti hasn't received an end-of-life status
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
Take a seat Take care of your spine with the best office chairs for gaming.
