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
There's a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers
By Dave James published
Gen-Hsun? The current stream of gen-AI game videos teases a future where the rendering power of your GPU barely matters, it's the built-in AI chops which matter.
October Prime Day gaming PC deals
By Dave James last updated
Prime Day Deals These Big Deal Days will serve up some tasty gaming PC deals.
Best UK October Prime Day PC gaming deals
By Nick Evanson last updated
Prime Day Deals And it's not just Amazon dropping the prices on everything PC gaming.
October Prime Day gaming laptop deals
By Dave James last updated
Prime Day Deals The best discounts for October Prime Day have come and gone but a handful still remain.
The latest Nvidia RTX 5090 specs rumour makes the ol' RTX 4090 look like a goddam clown card
By Dave James published
news Who's going to buy a new GPU for the rest of the year with these things looming large?
The holy THOCK of Awekeys' Full Metal Keycaps cannot make up for the fact that I'm a terrible typist
By Dave James published
Fully🤘Metal They're all metal, all the time. But the blank set has frustrated me, and the premium price is hard to swallow despite their utterly premium feel.
Dezctop Bifrost Elite 160 gaming desk review
By Dave James published
Stay Frosty A sturdy standing desk, but it's got a fight on its hands trying to topple Secretlab's mighty Magnus.
Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node
By Dave James published
news The Intel 20A process seems like it's going to go down in history as purely a test platform for backside power and GAAFET.
No other laptop maker would let me cannibalise the best bit of its new machine the way Framework does and that's a damned shame
By Dave James published
🦄 The new Framework laptop display is exactly why I love its products.
Framework 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) laptop review
By Dave James published
Step back Lots of improvements, but fundamentally a weaker proposition than the Ryzen mainboard.
New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added
By Dave James published
news "Added support for extra ROG Ally keys" is music to my ears.
How to add DLSS and Frame Generation to Starfield
By Dave James last updated
Upmarket upscaling As well as whether you should...
Best CPU coolers: I've loaded these AIO and air coolers onto today's top CPUs
By Dave James last updated
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
Best VPN for gaming in 2025
By Abigail Shannon last updated
Stealth Mode Prevent DDoS attacks, secure your devices, boost your speed, and get games for bargain prices – all with a gaming VPN. Here are my top picks.
The Tony Blair Insitute 'did not simply ask ChatGPT for the results' of its AI impact report, it trained its own version of ChatGPT instead
By Andy Edser last updated
news If there's one thing I trust, its AI predictions. Said nobody ever.
The latest Windows update means Notepad might now be my favourite word processor
By Dave James published
news Having not really been updated since 1983, Notepad is getting rich features without losing its essence.
It's been a frustrating 18 months since launch but we'll finally be getting PCIe 5 SSDs worth a damn this year
By Dave James published
news SiliconMotion's new controller is finally ready to roll out to SSD makers.
Nvidia loses $500 billion in the biggest short term loss in company value in all of recorded history. A year ago that would have killed it yet today it will barely notice
By Dave James published
news After briefly becoming the world's most valuable company Nvidia has now experienced the biggest three-day loss in value of any company ever.
Emulation proves the inevitable Achilles' Heel of Qualcomm's new PC chips when it comes to gaming
By Dave James published
news In a result that should shock no one, gaming performance comes off worst in the world of x86 emulation.
Unprecedented memory, frame rate boosting eye tracking features, and an ambitious ethos: In a surprising twist Adata had the most interesting handheld gaming PC at Computex 2024
By Dave James published
news Bet you didn't see that coming.
Gigabyte's 'Next-gen' Intel motherboard shows off the new Arrow Lake CPU socket for the first time alongside AMD's X870E
By Dave James published
news Gigabyte had both new AMD and Intel boards in its VIP suite, and also marked the return of its Project Stealth design.
Qualcomm's new Windows PC chip supports AMD's FSR… and I'm not sure AMD had any idea about it
By Dave James published
new The new Snapdragon X Elite processors, the vanguard for the AI PC boom, makes great use of the red team's upscaler.
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