Latest articles by Dave James
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.
AMD just took the one thing Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs had going for them and slapped it right out of their hands
News Near 50% higher frame rates AND cooler AND lower power. Ouch.
Nvidia's upgrading GeForce Now's $10 tier with 1440p and Ultrawide resolutions, but the only extra Ultimate users get is a new 100-hour play limit
news With a market value of well over $3,000,000,000,000, you'd think it could have kept pricing the same without introducing a blanket time limit.
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D may have just launched, but AMD doesn't expect an end of life announcement for the old 7800X3D 'anytime in the near future' and 'would expect it in the market for a while'
The king isn't quite dead, but long live the king.
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU review
Underslung The picking of the best gaming CPU might just be a little more nuanced this time around.
Lemokey G1 wireless gaming mouse review
Little squeaker A very Keychron wireless gaming mouse: Affordable, simple, and feature-rich.
Secretlab Titan Evo NanoGen Edition gaming chair review
Peak Secretlab What price unprecedented comfort?
The bloated tyranny of two-factor authentication is ruining my online existence. There has to be a better way
Who am I? Why won't you remember me?!
The best gaming projectors: These are the beamers I'd use for my home gaming theatre
Beam me up Bigger and more portable than monitors, grab one of these projectors for the ultimate home gaming experience.
Asus TUF A14 gaming laptop review
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | Nvidia RTX 4060 (100 W) | 16 GB LPDDR5x-7500 | 1 TB SSD | $1499 | £1479
Valve says its 'not really fair to your customers' to create yearly iterations of something like the Steam Deck, instead it's waiting 'for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life'
News Valve may not be creating yearly iterations of the Steam Deck, but it's having to give the same answer every year.
AMD's spoiling Intel's Arrow Lake party with Ryzen 9000-series price cuts and the promise of 'next-gen gaming' X3D chips arriving November 7
Kicking a lump of silicon while it's down.
There's a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers
Gen-Hsun? The current stream of gen-AI game videos teases a future where the rendering power of your GPU barely matters, it's the built-in AI chops which matter.
October Prime Day gaming PC deals
Prime Day Deals These Big Deal Days will serve up some tasty gaming PC deals.
Best UK October Prime Day PC gaming deals
Prime Day Deals And it's not just Amazon dropping the prices on everything PC gaming.
October Prime Day gaming laptop deals
Prime Day Deals The best discounts for October Prime Day have come and gone but a handful still remain.
The latest Nvidia RTX 5090 specs rumour makes the ol' RTX 4090 look like a goddam clown card
news Who's going to buy a new GPU for the rest of the year with these things looming large?
The holy THOCK of Awekeys' Full Metal Keycaps cannot make up for the fact that I'm a terrible typist
Fully🤘Metal They're all metal, all the time. But the blank set has frustrated me, and the premium price is hard to swallow despite their utterly premium feel.
Dezctop Bifrost Elite 160 gaming desk review
Stay Frosty A sturdy standing desk, but it's got a fight on its hands trying to topple Secretlab's mighty Magnus.
Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node
news The Intel 20A process seems like it's going to go down in history as purely a test platform for backside power and GAAFET.
No other laptop maker would let me cannibalise the best bit of its new machine the way Framework does and that's a damned shame
🦄 The new Framework laptop display is exactly why I love its products.
Framework 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) laptop review
Step back Lots of improvements, but fundamentally a weaker proposition than the Ryzen mainboard.
