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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Computex 2026 The Framework 13 Pro is a sleek, stylish machine lazer-focused on software devs sick of MacOS.

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Computex 2026 Remarkably, playing Pragmata and Indiana Jones via Prism's emulation wasn't really any different.

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Computex 2026 Keychron's even using it's new MagOptic mouse switch in its office mice, "if they don't use, they don't use it, but it still performs like a normal mouse."

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Computex 2026 Not content with that, Keychron is also rocking the world's lowest of low-profile magnetic keyboards.

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Score: 81% Navi 48 proves it's still a great GPU with this cut-down-for-China card's global release. If its divisive MSRP holds.

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Computex 2026 That's a lot of awesome.

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Computex 2026 The next-gen cooling prototype is a crowd-pleaser, a real diamond geezer.

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Computex 2026 It's been a long wait, but MSI's flagship chassis is hitting the shelves soon.

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Computex 2026 Intel says: "That's definitely the technology that will change the experience."

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Computex 2026 Well, it is the "most efficient PC chip ever built" after all.

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Computex 2026 "We just want to ensure all the top games run and run great on RTX Spark."

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Computex 2026 Nvidia's gaming relationships could push Arm gaming into the mainstream.

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Computex 2026 "The most efficient PC chip ever built."

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Computex 2026 MSI's "world's first agentic AI monitor" has one neat trick. The rest of its AI tricks, however...

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Computex 2026 Performance, efficiency, ergonomics, and battery life. Intel and MSI are delivering in the new Claw 8 EX AI+.

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Poll Letting installers and downloads and everything else have free rein over your operating system desktops... how can you live with yourselves?

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Untethered The best wireless gaming headsets allow you to enjoy your games and music tangle-free.

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Best case You'll want the best PC case if you're building your perfect gaming PC.

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Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.

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news The Alienware 15 is a new RTX 3050 gaming laptop in 2026. With resolutely single-channel memory.

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Poll Do you use a mouse mat while gaming?

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Score: 69% The best budget GPU, though it pains me to say so.

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Poll With nearly half of our readers waiting for 5+ years before upgrading their gaming PC, it's a hell of a contrast.
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