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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Gouged The poster child for the great 5070 Ti Blackwell GPU screwjob.

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Heels Every manufacturer is sniffing an opportunity to squeeze an extra chunk of cash out of PC gamers desperate for a scarce new card. And it sucks.

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We put our own machines through the ringer with the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, to lesser or greater success.

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News It's a temporary fix, but I don't like it one bit.

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Push it If the GPU at the heart of the RTX 5070 Ti can deliver the same level of overclocking it does with the RTX 5080 we could have a champ on our hands.

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OC hero Maybe I won the silicon lottery, but the GB203 sure looks like there was a lot of performance left on the table.

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4080 Ti Super A strangely unexciting graphics card built almost entirely for the Multi Frame Gen gaming experience.

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All about the Gen A new graphics card built for silicon austerity and a new era of AI rendering.

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News We knew stock would be tight, and lo it has come to pass.

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Live I don't mean to be negative, but stock is tight and demand is high...

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news The pros and cons of backporting Frame Gen to RTX 20- and 30-series graphics cards.

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news It's all part of the process.

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Gen or render? And here's also why we're not getting the same sort of big frame rate bump we got out of the RTX 40-series: hardware is hard.

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FPS in disguise The new transformer model for DLSS could be... er... kinda transformative.

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Comparing the relentless performance increase of the GPU to the original economic ethos behind Moore's Law.

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news Then goes on to speak rather poetically about inspirational pixels.

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Live Watch with me as Jen-Hsun presumably announces the new RTX 50-series Blackwell cards, or pulls off the biggest GPU bait-and-switch in history.

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News The lowest spec new RTX Blackwell GPU is capable of frame rates akin to the $1,599 RTX 4090 of the previous generation, though likely only through new DLSS 4 AI smarts.

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The number one priority for this generation of Radeon GPU is "improving performance in the areas that gamers care about most."

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News But the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT not being in AMD's CES keynote is not about any kind of development slip.

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The winners We've had our hands on all the best PC gaming hardware of 2024 and these are our absolute, solid gold favourites.

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Gear of the year The Asus TUF A14 is a surprising, delightful little laptop I did not expect to love so much.

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Gear of the year The handheld market is way more than just the Steam Deck, with stunning little PC consoles from all over delighting both our hands and eyeballs.
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