James Bentley

James Bentley

Hardware writer

James is a more recent PC gaming convert, often admiring graphics cards, cases, and motherboards from afar. It was not until 2019, after just finishing a degree in law and media, that they decided to throw out the last few years of education, build their PC, and start writing about gaming instead. In that time, he has covered the latest doodads, contraptions, and gismos, and loved every second of it. Hey, it’s better than writing case briefs.

Latest articles by James Bentley

A screenshot of Aimlabs, showing a gun pointing at blue orbs
I set out to prove polling rate affects my aim and instead found my favourite DPI setting

By James Bentley Published

News The polling rate boot camp was worth it, but for a different reason.

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A bunch of desks in a collage
What's on PC Gamer's desk?

By James Bentley, PC Gamer Team Published

Have a gander Yes, it spawned a debate on how many mice are the perfect number of mice.

Have a gander
iBuyPower RDY Scale B06 gaming pc on a wooden desk
iBuyPower RDY Scale B06 review

By James Bentley Published

Score: 71% It's a sign of how bad the memory crisis is that this rig doesn't feel super expensive.

Score: 71%
Richard Ayoade looking at the camera in Fable.
Fable system requirements seem reasonable but with a 30 fps target, it's hard to say for sure just yet

By James Bentley Last updated

News And you may want to make some room on your SSD too.

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Koorui G2741L gaming monitor, playing Control, on a desk
Koorui G2741L review

By James Bentley Published

Score: 85% Smart compromises make for a punchy monitor on a budget.

Score: 85%
DLSS 5 in Resident Evil Requiem
You can now apply DLSS 5 to your entire desktop with a free app and it even works with RTX 30-series cards

By James Bentley Published

News That includes doing the neural rendering dance all over videos and photos.

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A screenshot from the Doomfly website, showing a 3D pixelated fly in a Doom map
After Google mapped an adult male fruit fly's brain, software engineers made it play Doom, Mario64, and Beat Saber

By James Bentley Published

News Still better than some of my teammates.

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A screenshot of LarBearLair's spinning PC
Check out this wild custom PC build with actual spinning parts that took four months to make [updated]

By James Bentley Last updated

News Yes, that's a PSU spinning in the middle.

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CHONGQING, CHINA - DECEMBER 29: In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of “Claude,” an AI language model by Anthropic, with the company’s logo visible in the background, illustrating the rapid development and adoption of generative AI technologies, on December 29, 2024 in Chongqing, China. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of China’s strategic ambitions, with the government aiming to establish the country as a global leader in AI by 2030.
Ex-Anthropic researcher argues AI progress 'could kill us all by the end of the decade' and 'progress is not slowing'

By James Bentley Published

News So nothing to worry about, then?

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Scuf Omega controller outside in a hand
Scuf Omega review

By James Bentley Published

Score: 70% Closer to an Alpha or Beta than an Omega.

Score: 70%
Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG
Gaming monitors are one of the only good things about PC hardware right now, but one niche feature is underloved

By James Bentley Published

Seeing double. Doubling your refresh rate with just a few clicks? Yes please.

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Seeing double.
Close-Up of Black Carbon Fibre Surface - stock photoA detailed view of carbon fibre weave texture. Modern, lightweight, and strong, commonly used in high-tech manufacturing and motorsport.
Owner of nearly decade-old Dell laptop reportedly wore through the wrist rest and is 'being stabbed by carbon fibers'

By James Bentley Published

News Ouch.

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A video showing a PSU blowing up.
This video of a power supply blowing up shows why you should never cheap out on your PSU

By James Bentley Published

News New fear unlocked.

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https://pixabay.com/photos/linux-laptop-screen-wallpaper-wood-1962898/
Linux manages to avoid the age verification apocalypse, but SteamOS isn't in the clear yet

By James Bentley Published

News Linux gamers stay winning (unless you ask them to fix their audio).

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A screenshot of the summary tab in Task Manager OG with Bloom On
I tried the sequel to Task Manager and it has too many special effects

By James Bentley Published

News If Task Manager is so good, why isn't there a Task Manager 2?

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A Samsung 9100 Pro SSD in both 2 TB and 4 TB sizes.
Chinese memory maker YMTC wants to dethrone Samsung and SK hynix by the end of 2027

By James Bentley Published

News YMTC has some big plans.

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Pulsar X2F Crazylight gaming mouse on a yellow and orange gradient
Pulsar's new mouse is sliced in half to make it genuinely 'crazy-light'

By James Bentley Published

News 'I swear it came like that,' I say as I chew through half a mouse.

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GTA 6
After seeing what GTA 6 does to a PS5 we're even more desperate to see what the PC version has for us

By Dave James Published

Looking at the PlayStation 5 capture, we're noodling on just what extra shinies Rockstar might add to the best gaming platform's version.

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The Razer Blade 16 shot at an angle, showing the keyboard lit up in blue.
'I'm done. I used up my luck for this timeline': Redditor accidentally saves $5,000 on RTX 5090 Razer Blade 18 thanks to labelling error

By James Bentley Published

News Why can't this kind of thing ever happen to me?

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Microsoft Xbox Series X
Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft's self-proclaimed 'broader commitment to game preservation'

By James Bentley Published

News Microsoft saw Sony's open goal and took the shot.

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PORTLAND, OR - OCTOBER,16: Linus Torvalds, a software engineer and principal creator of the Linux kernel, poses for a portrait at his home in Portland, Ore. on Friday, October 16, 2015
Linus Torvalds details his 'debug session from hell' pushing an AI to fix an error it repeatedly said was 'impossible and unsolvable'. He then made it write the report

By James Bentley Published

News Even with AI, Torvalds seems to want a hands on approach.

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Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
Nvidia says it would be making a whole lot more money if it weren't for the memory crisis it's contributing to

By James Bentley Published

News And gaming doesn't even get a mention in its earnings call.

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Crucial X9 external SSD on a desk mat
Micron, the trillion-dollar memory company, refused to replace a crucial drive for current market value until Reddit got mad

By James Bentley Published

News 'Pushing back actually worked.'

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The Lenovo Legion Go on a red background and playing Sonic.
Lenovo says it is 'clear' Legion Go faults 'not user error' and even devices out of warranty could be repaired 'free of charge'

By James Bentley Published

News Users have been complaining about this problem for a few weeks now.

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Présentation du logiciel Windows 95 en magasin, à Boston, le 24 aout 1995
Microsoft had to change the anti-piracy hologram on the Windows 95 box because an undisclosed government assumed the baby on it was naked

By James Bentley Published

News Microsoft says the government "shall remain nameless for obvious reasons".

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