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

OneXPlayer OneXFly review
By Dave James published
Fly my pretty Lighter, smaller, faster, stronger.

Best DDR4 RAM for gaming in 2024
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
DDR4 Avoid bottlenecks with the best DDR4 RAM for gaming.

Your pixel perfect 4K OLED gaming monitor is coming in April
By Dave James published
news Dough's 32-inch 4K 240Hz holy grail will hopefully be here sooner than expected.

Best curved monitors for gaming in 2024
By Dave James last updated
Big Bends The best curved monitors help immerse you in your favorite game worlds.

Baldur's Gate 3 is now fully ✅Verified for Steam Deck
By Dave James published
news After the latest patch, Larian's RPG opus is now fully compatible with the Steam Deck.

I'm going to play the whole of Baldur's Gate 3 with a controller and you can't stop me
By Dave James published
Pad life Playing Larian's outstanding game as a third-person Mass Effect-style RPG is really working for me.

Can I play Baldur's Gate 3 on a Steam Deck?
By Dave James published
Shoulda woulda But maybe the real question is: should you play the year's best RPG on Valve's handheld gaming PC?

Sony and Microsoft really are propping up AMD's beleaguered GPU business right now
By Dave James published
news It's only the console chips keeping AMD's gaming market afloat while GPU sales continue to suffer.

AMD confirms imminent launch of 'new enthusiast-class Radeon 7000-series cards'
By Dave James published
news Looks like the RX 7800 and RX 7700 are very much on track for release in the next few months.

Microsoft is making Windows 11 greener for PC gaming's fancy monitors
By Dave James published
news If you're sitting on a pair of high refresh rate displays Windows 11 will soon adjust to different speeds depending on the content on screen.

AMD's PS5-like APU is reportedly getting 16 full-fat Zen 5 cores
By Dave James published
News Dr. Su is basically asking whether you REALLY need a discrete graphics card in your next gaming laptop.

AMD officially launches mobile X3D gaming chip exclusively in just one laptop 'for the foreseeable future'
By Dave James published
news The Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 X3D is the only one to sport potentially the best mobile gaming CPU ever made. Fingers crossed more chips are to follow.

Mountain Makalu Max wireless mouse review
By Dave James published
Big hands, big mouse A great customisable wired gaming mouse, but a sometimes frustrating wireless one.

The ludicrously large RTX 4090 Ti is reportedly no longer happening
By Dave James published
News Instead, we might be getting new versions of the Nvidia RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 using higher-end GPUs than the originals.

Boo, Intel's faux 14th Gen isn't going to deliver the peak cheap gaming CPU we were teased with
By Dave James published
News Pour one out for the 14-core budget chip that got away.

A year and a half later and the Steam Deck's trackpads are finally being copied in a new handheld PC
By Dave James published
News The Ayaneo Kun is the big boi handheld gaming PC, with a chonky battery, and an 8.4-inch 1600p screen for "semi-mobile scenarios."

Razer Blade 14 (2023)
By Dave James published
Sharp as ever AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS | Nvidia RTX 4070 (140W) | 16GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB SSD | $2,700 | £2,800

TSMC is delaying its Arizona foundry over a lack of skilled workers alongsde a $5.85B income slump
By Dave James published
news That's a brutal double whammy of a delay to the vaunted N3 production fab in Arizona to 2025 and a drop in its projected revenue.

The 16GB Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti is one of the most cynical graphics cards ever, and I'm kinda here for it
By Dave James published
FINE Theoretically the latest Ada graphics card launched today, but good luck finding one. If you really wanted an expensive 16GB RTX 4060 Ti anyways.

Leaked 3DMark numbers suggest AMD's next graphics card should undercut the RTX 4070 and outperform it
By Dave James published
news New leaked performance figures for the RX 7800 suggest it will deliver higher rasterised performance compared with the RTX 4070.

July's Windows 11 update could be the solution to your game stuttering woes
By Dave James published
News Microsoft finally catches up to the fact we've had 1,000Hz gaming mice since 2005.

The new OneXFly certainly makes the ROG Ally look like a chonky boi
By Dave James last updated
news This is the lightweight portable handheld gaming PC I've been waiting for.

'I see you're looking for a Prime Day PC gaming deal. Would you like help?'
By Dave James published
ClippAI Tom's Guide has deployed a ChatGPT-powered chatbot to help you find deals around Prime Day. Y'know, in case you're bored of our expert recommendations.

Starfield partners with AMD and oh boy, the internet is not happy
By Dave James last updated
News Some folk are mourning a hypothetical lack of DLSS support, some expecting more classic Bethesda launch jank, some fear Jedi: Survivor level issues, and some just straight out call for a boycott of AMD.