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
AMD will reportedly stop supporting Windows 10 starting with its new Strix Point APUs and you can all blame AI for that
By Dave James published
news If you wants the AI goodness from AMD's new NPU, you'll need Windows 11 and nothing else will do.
Best gaming desk in 2024: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between
By Dave James last updated
Top Desks We've chosen the best gaming desks based on hours of playing on both sitting and standing desks just to see which is worth your money.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
By Dave James last updated
Pixel pushers Yes, once more there are cheap graphics card deals.
Best cheap gaming laptop deals
By Dave James last updated
Deals Our regularly updated list of all the best gaming laptop deals you'll find today.
Best cheap gaming PC deals today
By Dave James last updated
deal Our simple advice: don't pay full price for a gaming PC.
Best 4K gaming monitors in 2024
By Dave James last updated
4K Vision The best 4K gaming monitor has all the bells and whistles an enthusiast could ever want or need.
Best gaming monitors in 2024: 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.
Grab an overclocked version of our favourite AMD graphics card for under its stock price with our exclusive PC Gamer code
By Dave James published
deal Get the RX 7800 XT OC for just £480 at CCL today.
AMD's CTO has written about 55 years of AMD innovation. And the most common topic is obviously 'AI' despite not really saying much about 'AI' for the previous 54 years
By Dave James published
news Maybe keep that one for 'Celebrating the next 55 years of AMD innovation.'
The tech I'm most psyched to see this year is anything but traditional PC silicon, and certainly isn't x86
By Dave James published
SNAP! Qualcomm's ARM-based chips are promising gaming-capable thin and light laptops with battery lives measured in decades. One of those things is true.
Dough Spectrum Black 27 OLED gaming monitor review
By Dave James published
Doh When a 32-inch 4K OLED is effectively the same price, why would you?
The full Snapdragon X CPU line-up has now been unveiled, and according to Qualcomm's numbers it should put the fear of ARM into AMD and Intel's laptop divisions
By Dave James published
news Qualcomm has shown the full specs of both its Snapdragon X Elite and the new, presumably cheaper X Plus processors.
Best PC joysticks in 2024: these are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
By Dave James last updated
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.
Best VPN for gaming in 2024
By Abigail Shannon last updated
Stealth Mode Prevent DDoS attacks, secure your devices, boost your speed, and get games for bargain prices—all with a gaming VPN. Here are my top picks.
What do you mean you've never played Half-Life: Alyx? Y'know one of the best VR headsets is down below $200 for the first time, right?
By Dave James published
deal Just make sure to grab the discounted Elite Strap for the Meta Quest 2 at the same time.
Best office chairs for gaming in 2024: The greatest seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested
By Dave James last updated
Take a seat Take care of your spine with the best office chairs for gaming.
Today's AI may just be 'autocorrect on steroids' but it's made Linus Torvalds mellow out over Nvidia
By Dave James published
news Torvalds and Hohndel talk AI at the recent Open Source Summit, where the former thinks it's made Nvidia better, the latter thinks it's just autocorrect.
PC Gamer is hiring: You know PC hardware, we know PC hardware, let's get together and spread the good word
By Dave James published
Join us! We're looking for a new hardware writer to join the team in Bath.
Best graphics cards in 2024: the GPUs I recommend for every budget
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Pixel Pushers Our picks of the most powerful gaming GPUs and the ones that provide the best bang for your buck.
US Gov sanctions won't impact Nvidia's RTX 4090D shipping to China (updated)
By Dave James published
news The clarified US government sanctions had been misinterpreted as impacting Nvidia's RTX 4090D GPU, but this is not the case.
Best gaming mouse in 2024: I've tested the very best mice and these are my top picks
By Dave James last updated
Pinpoint The best gaming mouse for every game, budget, grip, and size.
I wonder how future historians will judge this image of Zuckerberg's 'jersey swap' with Jen-Hsun and his signature leather jacket
By Dave James published
Judge us And what will they think of us?
Putin's ordered his government to look into creating Russia's own Steam Deck, SteamOS, and basically Steam itself
By Dave James published
news Essentially boils down to: "Make me my own Valve."