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
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Cyber Monday gaming headset deals 2023
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 right now.
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Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is passed, so I guess that makes the rest of this week Cyber Week.
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Cyber Monday SSD deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is all over but the SSD deals are still flying in thick and fast in Cyber Week.
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Cyber Week graphics card deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
We're jumping out of the Black Friday frying pan into the Cyber Week GPU deals fire.
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Cyber Week gaming monitor deals 2023: big screen, ultrawide, or 4K, it's all here
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday isn't really over, the discounts continue right through Cyber Monday and into Cyber Week.
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Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday has been and gone, but we'll keep the deals up here for now.
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Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is taking over the Black Friday deals, but there are still serious price drops on everything from 4K gaming monitors to budget panels.
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Black Friday SSD deals 2023
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Wave goodbye to Black Friday but say hello to all the great deals on SSDs still around.
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Black Friday gaming PC deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday itself may be over, but competition between retailers is still breeding some great PC deals.
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Nvidia RTX 4060 vs RTX 3060 and its 7 other biggest rival GPUs
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
Head-to-head Here's how the GeForce RTX 4060 stacks up against the previous generation, its Ada compatriots, and its AMD rivals in our tests.
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This is the spiritual successor to the best graphics card ever made
By Dave James published
News Galax has listed a single slot beauty on its China pages, and I really want to get my hands on one.
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'The next thing we're working on moving forward is Steam Deck 2,' but Valve has yet to see silicon offering the leap it's looking for
By Dave James published
News "That's not going to happen next year or the year after that. It's probably going to be more than that."
![SteamOS on multiple handheld gaming PCs](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mmdbL3LgZWp667Azmq32TC-320-80.jpg)
SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck'
By Dave James published
News "Oh, man, it's very high on our list."
![Valve Steam Deck OLED handheld PC](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5Y6T5m3GaQ4mnGXcEPp8GK-320-80.jpg)
Valve knows people will jam the shiny new OLED panel into old Steam Decks 'but it's probably not going to go well'
By Dave James published
news It says Steam Deck OLED "parts are not swappable" with the original LCD version.
![Valve Steam Deck OLED handheld PC](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FoevxAKyipfSyUiiAHF4PJ-320-80.jpg)
Valve is committed to bringing Steam Deck OLED 'battery life improvements to the LCD models as well'
By Dave James published
news A post-launch BIOS update will see all the firmware and software improvements of the new version brought to the original Steam Deck.
![Steam Deck OLED insides](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BoBzimtySYiQUwP8RpaELA-320-80.jpg)
Steam Deck OLED vs Steam Deck LCD: what's inside
By Dave James published
Innards We've cracked open both the new Steam Deck OLED and its OG LCD version to see what's change. Spoiler, it's a lot.
![Valve Steam Deck OLED handheld PC](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Hw769VzEfzVj8u7eGShPpH-320-80.jpg)
Valve just unveiled 'the definitive first generation Steam Deck' with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU
By Dave James published
news The more efficient HDR panel, bigger battery, and 6nm APU all add up to between 30 - 50% longer game time.
![Lenovo LOQ 15 gaming laptop](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WcbEVrJRELpM75TaoSrZ3B-320-80.jpg)
Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 gaming laptop review
By Dave James published
LOQ'd not loaded Lenovo's budget-oriented LOQ feels like a rare miss from the company's laptop makers.
![Baldur's Gate 3 - Withers the necromancer holds up his hand while talking to the player in camp](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Aa6VttKSXrbcLx8pYZnuJD-320-80.jpg)
Yaaas, AMD's FSR 2.2 has finally been patched into Baldur's Gate 3
By Dave James published
news I am in handheld gaming PC heaven right now.
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The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2023 PC Gamer's annual list of the best games you can play on PC.
![Framework 13 with AMD mainboard](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/W6xXUQ6Dmp4NcniZ7Am2wT-320-80.jpg)
Framework 13 (2023) AMD mainboard review
By Dave James published
It works First you get style, then you get the customisation, then you get the gaming power.
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You can already hack Ray Reconstruction into Cyberpunk 2077 without the path tracing limitation, but Nvidia promises to open it up officially soon
By Dave James published
News Ray Reconstruction makes Cyberpunk 2077 look absolutely stunning, but it can only be enabled with path tracing, or via some hacks.