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

This is your weekly reminder that you can bag an RTX 4080 gaming laptop for less than $1,600 and still get it before Christmas
By Dave James published
Deal Free delivery will see the MSI Vector get to you before the big day.

PC gaming's biggest disappointments of 2023
By Robin Valentine published
LAME OF THE YEAR Let me down gently.

Intel's unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers 'on a technical basis' but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind
By Dave James published
news Bringing its desktop and laptop Arc drivers together means everyone will benefit from every performance bump Intel's engineers can deliver.

Intel's slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance
By Dave James published
news To get an 'Arc Graphics' sticker, your Core Ultra laptop has to be dual-channel with 16GB of memory.

Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
By Dave James published
news I mean, obviously it's beating the Ryzen 7 7840U in Intel benchmarks, but it means I now can't wait to get my hands on a new Core Ultra laptop to really see what it can do.

Watch out Razer, Asus' switch from plastic to an all-metal unibody gaming laptop design was hidden in plain sight all along
By Dave James published
news We thought Asus' CES 2024 teaser trailer didn't say much, but by ditching the plastic chassis for metal it's going toe-to-toe with the Razer Blade aesthetic.

If GTA 6 isn't coming to PC until 2026 this is what a top-end gaming rig should look like when it does
By Dave James published
Tech dreams With a PC release not likely until 2026 here's the hardware that will be cutting edge when we hit the state of Leonida.

Cyber Monday PC gaming deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
We're curating the best deals on gaming PCs, laptops, graphics cards, chairs, and peripherals for you.

Cyber Monday gaming PC deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is gone and the Cyber Week gaming PC deals are here to do battle!

Cyber Monday gaming headset deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Sound can be an easily overlooked area of gaming, but there's no excuse with some of the best gaming headsets on sale right now.

Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is passed, so I guess that makes the rest of this week Cyber Week.

Cyber Monday SSD deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is all over but the SSD deals are still flying in thick and fast in Cyber Week.

Cyber Week graphics card deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
We're jumping out of the Black Friday frying pan into the Cyber Week GPU deals fire.

Cyber Week gaming monitor deals 2023: big screen, ultrawide, or 4K, it's all here
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday isn't really over, the discounts continue right through Cyber Monday and into Cyber Week.

I've been doing this for 18 years and I'm still picking out the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals
By Dave James last updated
With near two decades of experience as a PC gaming tech journalist, and a bunch of that contending with the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday has to offer, I've got your back picking the best deals.

Whether or not you're handy with a screwdriver, you can get a great RTX 4060 gaming laptop for under $800 this Cyber Monday
By Dave James last updated
What price convenience? Would you pay $50 to have a $20 RAM kit installed into a budget gaming laptop for you?

The best sub-$1,000 Cyber Monday RTX 4070 gaming laptop deal is inexplicably even cheaper than it was on Black Friday
By Dave James published
The TUF laptops may be Asus' more affordable systems, but there are few compromises here to explain that low price.

Black Friday PC gaming deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
It's all over! Black Friday has ended but everyone is still competing for your attention and money with these deals.

Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday has been and gone, but we'll keep the deals up here for now.

Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Cyber Monday is taking over the Black Friday deals, but there are still serious price drops on everything from 4K gaming monitors to budget panels.

Black Friday SSD deals 2023
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Wave goodbye to Black Friday but say hello to all the great deals on SSDs still around.

Black Friday gaming PC deals 2023
By Dave James last updated
Black Friday itself may be over, but competition between retailers is still breeding some great PC deals.

I've been doing this for 18 years and these are the Black Friday PC gaming deals I'm still into right now
By Dave James last updated
With near two decades of experience as a PC gaming tech journalist, and a bunch of that dealing with the best Black Friday has to offer, I've got your back picking the best deals.