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

Acer Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld
Acer Predator Atlas 8 (G3 Extreme) review

By James Bentley Published

Score: 86% The cheapest way to get the best handheld chip right now.

Score: 86%
A still from two photos. The first, U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks during a campaign rally at the Rock Hill Sports and Event Center on October 29, 2026 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. President Trump is in South Carolina rallying support for local Republican candidates ahead of next week's midterm elections. The second, Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, gives a keynote address at the NVIDIA Berlin GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on October 21, 2026 in Berlin, Germany. The three-day event is bringing together developers, researchers, and industry leaders in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Trump calls his pal Jensen Huang an ‘honourable guy’ and says he ‘probably has an excuse’ for Nvidia CEO’s affair with alleged spy

By James Bentley Published

News It's been a tough week for Team Green.

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Epomaker HE75 V2 TMR gaming keyboard
Epomaker HE75 V2 TMR review

By James Bentley Published

Score: 86% Mid-range, mighty, and mini.

Score: 86%
Discord logo displayed on a phone screen and Discord website displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 5, 2022.
Discord is cutting memory usage and speeding up boot times - joins Xbox, Epic, Steam, and more for similar upgrades just this year

By James Bentley Published

News If it's quicker and more efficient, I'm in.

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Microsoft Xbox Series X
FSR 4.1.2 now on Xbox and Xbox handhelds, just in time for a certain big GTA 6-shaped game

By James Bentley Published

News Help me upscalers, you're my only hope.

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The Formula V Line Air Power G10 on a desk
Formula V Line Air Power G10 review

By James Bentley Published

Score: 68% A sleek case with some less-than-sleek issues.

Score: 68%
Black Friday listing image with an ASRock monitor featured
Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2026

By James Bentley last updated

Black Friday Black Friday is almost here, but deals can be found, so we're here counting up the best deals coming up to the big day.

Black Friday
Black Friday listing image with a Steelseries headset featured
Black Friday gaming headset deals 2026

By James Bentley last updated

Black Friday Black Friday is just a few weeks away, but we've already spotted a few solid discounts

Black Friday
Turtle Beach Command Series MC7 gaming mouse outside on stone
Turtle Beach Command Series MC7 review

By James Bentley Published

Score: 57% How much is a touchscreen really worth to you?

Score: 57%
The Steam Frame on the Steam Frame box.
Valve's Steam Frame has taken a spot in the top ten most popular VR headsets on Steam

By James Bentley Published

News The Quest 3 still holds a significant lead, though.

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MSI and Koorui gaming monitors on a green background with the PC Gamer recommended logo in the top right
Best gaming monitors in 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself

By Dave James last updated

Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with panel quality, resolution and refresh rate.

Eye candy
A Glorious Model O and Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse on a yellow background, with a PC Gamer Recommended sticker in the top right.
Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks

By Jacob Fox last updated

Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.

Pinpoint
A still from Blighted Agent's YouTube video converting laptop ram into desktop ram
YouTuber buys and turns 32 GB of laptop DDR5 into desktop RAM for just $175

By James Bentley Published

News They then overclocked it.

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Nvidia data center
$60 million AI rack cluster listed on eBay, with 1.4 petabytes of memory and almost 10,000 Nvidia AI GPUs

By James Bentley Published

News And it even had free shipping.

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Phantom Blade Zero - Soul
Phantom Blade Zero dev says don't get the latest Nvidia drivers

By James Bentley Published

News Luckily, rolling back drivers is pretty easy.

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Proton logo on a pink deals background
Proton's Black Friday sale is already live: ditch Google with up to 70% off its VPN and 50% off unlimited plan

By James Bentley Published

Deals That's just $2.99 a month for Proton VPN.

Deals
Meta + Nvidia's super computer
Nvidia and AMD invest billions into Meta as companies egg each other on to bet even more on AI

By James Bentley Published

News What's $3 billion to a trillion-dollar company?

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Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
Nvidia may not have discontinued the RTX 5090, but one AIB partner says it can't get hold of the parts required to make the card

By James Bentley Published

News And RTX 5090s weren't cheap before.

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Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor for Hardware at PC Gamer, wearing the Steam Frame on his head.
Bassist plays Halloween gig wearing a Steam Frame: 'Interestingly, only one guy asked me about the Frame'

By James Bentley Published

News Even wearing a VR headset couldn't get anyone to talk to the bassist.

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Microsoft's Internet speed test, in Bing
New Windows 11 Insider Experimental build adds the ability to check your internet speed without a browser

By James Bentley Published

News A small change, but a handy one.

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The left and right Steam Frame controllers on the Steam Frame box.
Valve adds CD-ROM support to Steam Frame kernel less than ten minutes after saying it would look into it

By James Bentley Published

News That was fast.

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Phantom Blade Zero kungfupunk action
Phantom Blade Zero devs say the game needs 300 GB of free space for the pre-load process, alongside updated system requirements

By James Bentley Published

News You might need to make some space.

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Person typing on a laptop with red and blue lighting
Korean police arrest cyberhacking gang reportedly led by self-taught hacker, who allegedly used AI to breach 60 firms and received a mere $210 in ransom

By James Bentley Published

News In this case, crime really didn't pay. Much.

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Quake
'We probably sold millions of boards because of that game, and it was magnificent': 3dfx cofounder gives Quake a 'great deal of credit for our overall success'

By James Bentley Published

News It's now been 30 years since the first Voodoo card.

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Mr. X looking through a door.
Capcom confirms a data breach has affected over 11 million people, with emails, IP addresses, and birthdays caught up in the mix

By James Bentley Published

News Make sure to check your email.

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