Latest articles by Dave James
AOKZOE A1 Pro review
Big deck energy Definitely more than a Steam Deck, but better than an ROG Ally?
Intel's forcing its chip designers to pay market rates not mate's rates at its own fabs
news Splitting the fab and products sides of Intel's business is both an effort in cost savings and enticing customers in to pay for its facilities.
Did you know there's been a hidden 'last resort' Emergency restart button in Windows since Vista?
News Am I the last person to find out about this, or are there other folk only finding this out now?
DockCase Pocket Smart SSD Enclosure review
Smart A genuinely smart new home for your old Steam Deck SSD.
Leak suggests AMD's best laptop GPU delivers RTX 4070 desktop performance for less power
News The power and efficiency of AMD's RDNA 3 architecture looks great in mobile form, but the jury's still out on the desktop side.
DrunkDeer A75 review
You're drunk A lovely piece of hardware hugely let down by its frustratingly limited software.
Windows 11's latest endearing mess rigorously and wrongly enforces Britishisms
news Microsoft's patchwork OS will now sometimes auto-translate Zip files to postcode files for UK users.
Intel claims 'substantial' CPU core speed boost in Meteor Lake test chip 'for just moving wires around'
news In the silicon world, the sandwich vs. pizza debate is real.
If you've got a modern Gigabyte motherboard there's a BIOS setting you need to disable to avoid PC's latest security calamity
News Gigabyte is also in the process of uploading beta BIOS fixes which should mitigate the issue.
Computex 2023: all the biggest stories from the Taiwan tech show
Computex 2023 We're on the ground out in Taipei to give you the lowdown on the biggest show in PC hardware.
This new PC case is giving real 3D printer vibes and I guess that might be my new 'thing'
news I'm really into this Azza Sanctum design. Just remember not to squeeze your extruded plastic into the wrong glass box, eh?
Adata's shown its 1600W PSU can power four 450W RTX 4090s and that it really doesn't care for maths
News Topping 2200W of potential power, this isn't your average 1600W PSU.
The perfect PSU for your silent gaming PC build just became a reality
News The "near-absolute silence" Cooler Master X Silent power supply is available in a completely fanless 750W model.
Nvidia briefly joined Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet in the $1 trillion club. But please don't forget us PC gamers, Jen-Hsun
News Nvidia today passed the $1 trillion mark in terms of market capitalisation before dropping back below the threshold at the close of the markets.
MSI's new line of Gaming X Slim graphics cards has made me irrationally angry
news For one, they're slimmer, not slim.
Jen-Hsun says Intel's process tech is looking so good Nvidia's open to using its fabs for future GPUs
news There's a chance Nvidia's future graphics cards are made by Intel not TSMC, while Intel graphics cards continue to be made by TSMC. What a world.
Nvidia doesn't care if you don't like its new graphics cards, AI is going to make it $11B in just 3 months
News Say what you like, gaming isn't the big thing for Jen-Hsun and co. right now.
The RTX 4060 Ti highlights where the limitations lie with Nvidia's Frame Generation technology
Behind the magic My testing highlights the fact that instead of giving extra performance, sometimes Frame Generation can slow your games down.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti review
Just enough The tightly regimented mid-range Ada card delivers no surprises.
Nvidia's $299 RTX 4060 means we're finally getting a next-gen GPU that costs less than the graphics card it's replacing
News The Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti is coming May 24 for $399, with a $299 RTX 4060 following in July. And yes, there really is going to be a 16GB RTX 4060 Ti at $499, too. For... reasons.
AMD is quietly smashing Intel in the mobile chip game
Smashin' it The new Dragon Range CPUs are top gaming laptop chips and its Phoenix APUs are in a class of their own.
Framework 13 Intel 13th Gen mainboard review
Modular An unnecessary upgrade, but talismanic of the progress the modular laptop company has made.
The Asus ROG Ally may be the best handheld gaming PC but the Steam Deck's not finished yet
Not done yet Valve played it smart from the beginning and you can now pick up a 512GB Deck for just $490 if you're smart too.
