Articles by: Dave James

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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.

Articles by: Dave James

Seriously, what's the point in an RTX 4090 gaming laptop if a cheaper RTX 4080 can beat it?

By Dave James published 23 February 23

Consumer win? An RTX 4090 in a laptop isn't really an RTX 4090, and anyway, it can't always beat an RTX 4080 mobile GPU. Which isn't really an RTX 4080, either... gaming laptops are confusing.

Roman ‘der8auer’ Hartung holding an Intel Xeon W9 3495X CPU

I make no apologies for the geeky pleasure I get watching a 56-core CPU just monster this benchmark

By Dave James published 23 February 23

News Come watch some $6,000 CPU benchmarking pr0n with me.

RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 with neon glow filter

Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming

By Dave James published 17 February 23

Goosing A manufacturer obsession with creating ultra-expensive, ultra-enthusiast tech, almost to the exclusion of all else, is making PC gaming morbidly elitist.

MSI Titan GT77 HX

By Dave James published 17 February 23

Asus ROG Zephyrus M16

By Dave James published 15 February 23

The best romances in PC gaming

By Mollie Taylor published 14 February 23

💘💘 Our faves to smooch, serenade and seduce.

Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU rumours suggest it's worse than the laptop variant of the same chip

By Dave James published 14 February 23

News Mainstream PC gamers just can't catch a break, huh?

Nvidia CEO hails ChatGPT as 'one of the greatest things that has ever been done for computing'

By Dave James published 13 February 23

News Jen-Hsun says "it'll make everything better… it'll make everything better."

Razer Blade 16

By Dave James published 10 February 23

Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, United States on September 26, 2022.

Google's new AI didn't do a racism but its public screw up still knocked $100B off the books

By Dave James published 9 February 23

News BARD confidently delivered some inaccurate info in a public promo, which also delivered a real blow to the company's market valuation.

Next-gen RTX 4090 laptops tested: Proof you really can't have it all

By Dave James published 7 February 23

Next-gen The massive MSI Titan GT77 HX and Razer Blade 16 come rocking the latest Nvidia and Intel GPU/CPU combo. But certainly don't come quiet or cheap.

Colorful RTX 4090 Batlle Ax graphics card

Seriously, where did you lot get the money for all those RTX 4090s?

By Dave James published 2 February 23

News The top Nvidia card has popped into the Steam Hardware Survey above all of AMD's high-end RX 6000-series GPUs. And they've been around for years.

An error in Samsung's 980 Pro firmware is causing SSDs to die. I'd check your drive right now tbh

By Dave James published 2 February 23

News Update or say goodbye to your Samsung SSD. If only that was the only issue affecting its drives today, but...

Forspoken DirectStorage on test: Contrary to reports, there's no GPU performance hit on an RTX 4090

By Dave James published 27 January 23

SuperSSD But weirdly, you will see higher fps on a hard drive if you're willing to wait

My heart is aching for this tiny single slot RTX 4090

By Dave James published 26 January 23

News I'm drooling over this video test of Alphacool's gorgeous RTX 4090 block.

I think AMD needs to stop letting interns update its upcoming CPU info pages

By Dave James published 24 January 23

news Whole lotta mistakes going on.

Image of World of Warcraft Classic using the RTX Remix files from Portal RTX

World of Warcraft Classic gets a modern facelift thanks to files ripped out of the latest Portal game

By Dave James published 23 January 23

news The video highlights the potential of Nvidia's still-unreleased RTX Remix software to bring fresh visuals to aging games.

I lost my head and lubed a mechanical keyboard switch. Help

By Dave James published 20 January 23

Lubin' Asus made me do it, though now I need never do it again.

RTX 4060 Ti is rumoured to have RTX 3070 speed for 80% its power

By Dave James published 19 January 23

news The RTX 3070 performance is just about what you'd expect, but what if Nvidia also matches RTX 3070 pricing?

GeForce Now Ultimate tier tested: The best way to bag an RTX 40-series GPU

By Dave James last updated 20 January 23

Ultimate upgrade? Nvidia's new GeForce Now Ultimate tier is one of the most effective and affordable ways to upgrade your gaming experience, but there are caveats.

Asus ROG Azoth

By Dave James last updated 19 January 23

Keeb Joy A gorgeous enthusiast keeb from Asus, but it sure is 2023 expensive.

PNY RTX 4080 XLR8 Verto

By Dave James published 12 January 23

XLR8 MSRP If I'm buying an RTX 4080 it's either the Founders Edition or an MSRP card like this PNY. The thing is, I ain't buying any of them at this price.

PC Gamer's Best of CES 2023 awards

By Dave James published 12 January 23

Top tech The tech from this year's show that caught our eyes... and our hearts. Aww.

Shadow Power Upgrade

By Dave James published 10 January 23

Shade The long-awaited update to Shadow's GTX 1080 baseline is too much for not enough.

Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC graphics card

Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti

By Dave James published 4 January 23

Rebadge The rebadged and un-unlaunched RTX 4080 12GB is here, repped by this MSRP Gigabyte card delivering RTX 3090 frame rates.

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