Latest articles by Dave James
Color me not-shocked: RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 goes out of stock across the US and UK in 5 minutes
News We knew stock would be tight, and lo it has come to pass.
The best Mini-ITX PC case in 2025: the top tiny cases I've tested to date
Mini but Mighty Go compact and cute with the best mini-ITX PC cases.
The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2025: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears
Budding gamers So you finally managed to bag a Steam Deck or ROG Ally, now what are the best gaming earbuds to go with it?
Best gaming motherboards: these are the mobos I'd build a system around today
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.
Now Nvidia's hardware blocks have been AI'd out of existence all it will take for Frame Generation support on RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs is 'further optimization and testing'
news The pros and cons of backporting Frame Gen to RTX 20- and 30-series graphics cards.
The best audiophile headphones for gaming in 2025: my top recommendations for the best cans money can buy
Audiophile Immerse yourself in your games with the best audiophile headphones for gaming.
Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'
news It's all part of the process.
Here's how the new RTX 50-series cards perform against the previous generation of GeForce GPUs
Gen or render? And here's also why we're not getting the same sort of big frame rate bump we got out of the RTX 40-series: hardware is hard.
I'll say it: The best thing I saw from Nvidia at CES wasn't its sweet new GPUs, but some tasty AI every RTX gamer can enjoy
FPS in disguise The new transformer model for DLSS could be... er... kinda transformative.
The best gaming headsets in Australia for 2025
Quality cans Treat your ears to some treacle with the best gaming headsets.
The best gaming monitors in Australia for 2025
Eye candy The best gaming monitors offer the perfect mix of resolution, refresh rate, and size to immerse you in your favorite gaming worlds.
Jen-Hsun reckons Nvidia has driven the 'cost of computing down by 1,000,000 times'
Comparing the relentless performance increase of the GPU to the original economic ethos behind Moore's Law.
Will there ever become a point with AI where there are no traditionally rendered frames in games? Perhaps surprisingly, Jen-Hsun says 'no'
news Then goes on to speak rather poetically about inspirational pixels.
Nvidia CES 2025 keynote live: new GPUs or there'll be a riot
Live Watch with me as Jen-Hsun presumably announces the new RTX 50-series Blackwell cards, or pulls off the biggest GPU bait-and-switch in history.
Nvidia's new RTX 5070 will deliver 'RTX 4090 performance at $549' when it launches in February
News The lowest spec new RTX Blackwell GPU is capable of frame rates akin to the $1,599 RTX 4090 of the previous generation, though likely only through new DLSS 4 AI smarts.
AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs are about efficiency in terms of performance and price: 'We know where gamers buy products, it's well below that $1,000 price point'
The number one priority for this generation of Radeon GPU is "improving performance in the areas that gamers care about most."
AMD says 'the performance data out there for RDNA 4 is completely inaccurate'
News But the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT not being in AMD's CES keynote is not about any kind of development slip.
The best gaming laptops in Australia for 2025
Portable powerhouses Don't compromise on power or portability with the best gaming laptops.
I've tested the best graphics cards and CPUs of the year, and yet it's this affordable, unassuming little gaming laptop that captured my heart in 2024
Gear of the year The Asus TUF A14 is a surprising, delightful little laptop I did not expect to love so much.
OneXPlayer OneXFly F1 Pro handheld PC review
Flying The first Strix Point handheld becomes the most powerful and maybe most desirable, too.
