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

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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.

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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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Beam me up Bigger and more portable than monitors, grab one of these projectors for the ultimate home gaming experience.

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Live! You're going to learn how the new Nvidia GPU performs alongside me, isn't that exciting? No? Just me then.

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Score: 87% The most performant gaming laptop of this generation, and RTX 5090 be damned.

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News Want to literally see inside the Switch 2's processor?

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news The budget graphics silicon is hitting just before Computex... where another budget GPU beckons.

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Score: 83% A classic gaming laptop that delivers on the frame rate promise of Nvidia's RTX 50-series, but not on the battery life.

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Struggle pug Sticking everything on Ultra with a UE5 game was always going to be thus, I guess.

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Score: 87% The finest Framework around.

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News There's Lumen software and hardware ray tracing, so no RTX actually required.

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news Razer's taken down laptop pricing, new tariffs will make tech pricing higher, 2+2=4.

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Which of the modern graphics cards should you be dropping into your PC?

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Score: 78% Anachronistic gaming laptop style with RTX 5090-topping performance.

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Big boi gaming laptops with genuine gaming battery life was not what I expected from the class of '25.

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Score: 90% Simply the best gaming laptop I've ever used. So, how will Asus respond this time?

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With Nvidia's focus on efficiency over raw performance gains there will be pushback, but this is the mobile gaming experience I've been after.

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Too much, man Pinning the moniker of the god of fire to an overclocked graphics card has gone about as well as you might expect.

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Price hike With $100 tacked onto the initial $549 price tag—at least—the RX 9070 becomes a hard card to love.

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Monster, monster The biggest, most powerful consumer graphics card I've ever jammed into our test rig, but not the RTX 5090 I would recommend.

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news So, combined it sold more of four different GPUs than a single $1,600 card.

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Live! AMD's impressive new cards are out today, and have had since January to shore up stock in the channel, and we'll be keeping an eye on how that pans out.
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