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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Precisely why? I can't help but feel this is more pro-gamer placebo than anything else.

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So. Many. Buttons The Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE isn't just a pretty facia of many, many buttons.

By Dave James Published
Wires Nope, you won't convince me this is a worthwhile thing. Wires are fine.

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Score: 81% An almost ludicrously expensive chair for those with discerning tastes. And spines.

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Pixel pushers We've done the hard yards sourcing the best prices for all the best graphics cards you should fit into your gaming PC.

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Smol The 14-inch form factor is the perfect nexus point between performance and portability.

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News The new Framework 16 has been announced with a backwards compatible RTX 5070 graphics module.

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Score: 82% Corsair's buffed the rough edges off its first desk, and some of the width too, creating the best compact gaming desk you can buy.

By Dave James Published
Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.

By Dave James Published
Score: 77% Not a gaming rig, but a hell of an AI PC.

By Dave James Published
Score: 87% The Vengeance line once more proves itself some of the best gaming PCs, even if it can't yoink the latest and greatest Corsair gear out the warehouse.

By Dave James Published
Score: 91% Finally, a wireless headset to topple the all-conquering Cloud Alpha.

By Dave James Published
Score: 79% Great audio and ANC comes at a frustrating cost.

By Dave James Published
Score: 90% For the budding professional gamer, the new DeathAdder has everything you could want. For everyone else it might be a stretch.

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Score: 81% The most impressed I've been with a modern Alienware PC in years.

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Audiophile Immerse yourself in your games with the best audiophile headphones for gaming.

By Dave James Published
Score: 83% Still a great compact gaming laptop, but the grating fan noise and sharper Blade 14 relegate it into second place.

By Dave James Published
Score: 86% The 2025 update for Razer's micro machine has pretty much made it my ideal gaming laptop.

By Dave James Published
Ergo I've spoken with a group of certified ergonomists about what makes the best gaming chair and what annoys them the most about modern seats.

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Lefties Shopping for the best left-handed mouse for gaming doesn't have to mean wading through right-handed options that might just work.

By Dave James Published
Steam Machine I get why you might not want to go back, but I just made myself a Steam Machine from office bits and it was (eventually) pretty damned easy.

By Dave James Published
News Micro Center says it could be an issue at source in China, which means there could be far more than 32 cases of missing GPUs.
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