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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Poll Sure, 36% of you play at 2560 x 1440, but at 22% it's a straight tie between 4K and 1080p gamers in our latest poll.

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Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.

By Dave James Published
Poll Don't hide your gaming light under a bushel. Or a desk.

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Polls Back to the drawing board, Jen-Hsun?

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Polls Aww bless, Windows is really not that bad after all is it? But Linux is fun.

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Prepping Prepping for the coming apocalypse with Project NOMAD.

By Jacob Ridley Last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

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News The latest details suggest a real disconnect between the ground truth of a game and the DLSS 5 layer.

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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?

By PC Gamer Team Published
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.

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News At the GTC keynote, Jen-Hsun has just showed off the AI-enhancement of DLSS 5.
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Live Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference kicks off this week, with a leather-clad keynote from the company's CEO.

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Released March 13, 2001 MadOnion's 3DMark 2001 was an instant PC graphics classic.

By Dave James Published
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.

By Dave James Published
Resurrection It was all going so well...

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news Sources from different countries and different companies suggest this is happening, and y'know what, I don't doubt it.

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Score: 87% A factory overclocked golden sample for a modest premium.

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news The new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 has shown up in an EEC listing from Friday.

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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.

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new Asus has officially echoed its response to us yesterday and MSI has confirmed it has "no plans to EoL anything."

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Take a seat Take care of your spine with the best office chairs for gaming.

By Jacob Ridley Last updated
Click Clack Make the switch with our guide to the best mechanical gaming keyboards.

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Mini but Mighty Go compact and cute with the best Mini-ITX PC cases.
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