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
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 (2023) review
By Dave James published
Ryzen shine AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX | Nvidia RTX 4090 | 32GB DDR5-4800 | 1TB SSD | $3,500 | £3,759
Asus ROG Ally review
By Dave James published
Decked out The first in line for the Steam Deck's throne.
Don't mind me, I'm just mesmerised by this implausibly pleasing trick for fixing bent cooling rad fins
By Dave James published
News Seriously, I'm going to trash my own radiator just so I can spend an afternoon doing this.
Restarting Elden Ring inspired me to finally fix my Elite Series 2 gamepad
By Dave James published
Bump it up The notorious Xbox Elite controller bumpers can and do fail, but there's a real easy fix.
Finally, proof your choice of gaming chair can affect the performance of your PC
By Dave James published
news "Welcome to 2023 - Your Ikea chair is incompatible with your screen."
Nvidia reportedly prepping a 16GB RTX 4060 Ti for July
By Dave James published
News Rumours suggest the 16GB version will follow two months after the expected RTX 4060 Ti 8GB release later this month.
Nvidia's dropped a video of an incredible AI-powered hairdressing sim and now I want a digital barbershop
By Dave James published
news So, new Hairworks on the way in time for The Witcher 4?
So, you're telling me that US crypto mining used more power last year than ALL THE COMPUTERS?!
By Dave James published
news The upper limit could actually put it on par with the energy consumed by all the lighting in the United States. Eep.
Look, gaming monitors are just doing aspect ratio wrong
By Dave James published
Golden ratio A pox on the house of 16:9. Let us look to the latest gaming laptops and handheld PCs with their 16:10 displays.
Razer BlackShark V2 Pro 2023 Edition review
By Dave James published
Tweaked A genuine 2023 upgrade, but the original still sounds great for less.
Leaked $700 pricing for the Extreme ROG Ally could kill the Steam Deck for me
By Dave James published
news With a maximum price of $700, and performance way beyond it, who's going to be buying a Steam Deck from now on?
Best AMD motherboards in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Red Hot The best AMD boards for AM5 or AM4 processors.
Asus has been building the ROG Ally for 5 years and here are the hideous prototypes to prove it
By Dave James published
news The ROG Ally would have been released whether the Steam Deck existed or not... just probably not quite so soon.
The ROG Ally doesn't need the Deck's Verified system because of Windows and its AMD Z1 chip
By Dave James published
News Asus says AMD's Z1 silicon and Windows 11 will be all the verification you need that your games will just work on the ROG Ally.
Asus ROG Ally launches May 11 with pricing 'for sure... below $1,000'
By Katie Wickens published
news Asus' Steam Deck rival is promising to redefine handheld gaming.
Intel Meteor Lake's Adamantine spine could boost GPU and boot performance
By Dave James published
news Intel to take on AMD at its own cache game with *checks notes* ADM.
AMD's RX 7600 and Nvidia's RTX 4060 Ti release dates rumoured around Computex next month
By Dave James published
news Reports point to an end of May/beginning of June launch, but these are not competing GPUs from a performance point of view.
I'm enjoying the surface level absurdity of Microsoft updating DirectStorage 1.2 for the benefit of ye olde hard drives
By Dave James published
news Though it could be the feature which encourages more developers to implement DirectStorage in their games.
G.Skill KM250 RGB review
By Dave James published
Enthusiastically cheap The best budget gaming keyboard, and one with more than just a nod to the enthusiast keeb community.
Elon Musk says his TruthGPT AI is 'unlikely to annihilate' humanity
By Dave James published
News It's unlikely because it would be "a maximum truth-seeking AI" rival to ChatGPT. But y'know, there's always a chance.
If there's one thing AI has done for us, it's killed Zuck's metaverse
By Dave James published
News We don't need to talk about the metaverse.
Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti rumoured to cost $450 at launch in May
By Dave James published
News And that still kinda feels like too much for the card reportedly launching next month.
Crucial T700 preview: The fastest PCIe 5.0 SSD on the planet... for what that's worth
By Dave James published
Comin' in hot Headline grabbing 12,000 MB/s speeds can't hide the fact there's little to tempt gamers.