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
Cyber Monday graphics card deals 2024: Today's best prices on the best GPUs
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is done and dusted for another year, but there are still GPU deals to be found.
Cyber Monday gaming headset deals 2024: giving the gift of great audio this deals season
By Dave James last updated
Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale.
Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals 2024: we've found the best discounts on gaming laptops as Cyber Monday kicks off
By Dave James last updated
The discounts are rolling out for Cyber Monday, and would ya know it's a mix of new and existing Black Friday deals.
I'm serving the best Cyber Monday gaming deals using every second of my near 20 years as a PC gaming tech vet. That's veteran, not veterinarian, btw
By Dave James last updated
Live It's all been leading to this point.
The best Black Friday gaming chair deal is still available on Cyber Monday
By Dave James last updated
Deal The Corsair TC100 Relaxed is enjoying a hefty price cut, even post-Black Friday.
Black Friday PC gaming deals UK 2024
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday has now passed, but you can be sure there are still a ton of deals still available into the weekend and beyond.
Black Friday gaming PC deals 2024
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday itself might have rushed by, but we're still picking out the best PC deals still available throughout the weekend and into Cyber Monday.
Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2024
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday continues long into the weekend and the gaming monitor deals are still coming in thick and fast.
Black Friday SSD deals 2024
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Black Friday is over for another year but if you're looking for the ultimate storage upgrade, then here are all the best SSD deals still live.
Yes, I'm still picking out the best Black Friday gaming deals throughout the weekend because my near 20-years as a PC tech journo have locked me into this gilded cage
By Dave James last updated
Live You're welcome.
Lenovo Legion Tower 5i gaming PC review
By Dave James published
Simple things A great entry-level gaming PC and a solid buy for 1080p gaming.
Best 4K gaming monitors: 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.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor
By Dave James published
Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
By Dave James published
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.
AMD just took the one thing Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs had going for them and slapped it right out of their hands
By Dave James published
News Near 50% higher frame rates AND cooler AND lower power. Ouch.
Nvidia's upgrading GeForce Now's $10 tier with 1440p and Ultrawide resolutions, but the only extra Ultimate users get is a new 100-hour play limit
By Dave James published
news With a market value of well over $3,000,000,000,000, you'd think it could have kept pricing the same without introducing a blanket time limit.
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D may have just launched, but AMD doesn't expect an end of life announcement for the old 7800X3D 'anytime in the near future' and 'would expect it in the market for a while'
By Dave James published
The king isn't quite dead, but long live the king.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU review
By Dave James published
Underslung The picking of the best gaming CPU might just be a little more nuanced this time around.
Lemokey G1 wireless gaming mouse review
By Dave James published
Little squeaker A very Keychron wireless gaming mouse: Affordable, simple, and feature-rich.
Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Edition gaming chair review
By Dave James published
Peak Secretlab What price unprecedented comfort?
The bloated tyranny of two-factor authentication is ruining my online existence. There has to be a better way
By Dave James published
Who am I? Why won't you remember me?!
The best gaming projectors: These are the beamers I'd use for my home gaming theatre
By Jacob Fox last updated
Beam me up Bigger and more portable than monitors, grab one of these projectors for the ultimate home gaming experience.
Asus TUF A14 gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | Nvidia RTX 4060 (100 W) | 16 GB LPDDR5x-7500 | 1 TB SSD | $1499 | £1479
Best PC joysticks: 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.
Valve says its 'not really fair to your customers' to create yearly iterations of something like the Steam Deck, instead it's waiting 'for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life'
By Dave James published
News Valve may not be creating yearly iterations of the Steam Deck, but it's having to give the same answer every year.
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