Dave James
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NeueChair review
We've been recommending the NeueChair as the best office/task chair for years, even since before I joined as overlord of PC Gamer's hardware coverage. As I'd not had the privilege of tr → Read More
Look, gaming monitors are just doing aspect ratio wrong
A pox on the house of 16:9. Let us look to the latest gaming laptops and handheld PCs with their 16:10 displays. → Read More
Razer BlackShark V2 Pro 2023 Edition
A genuine 2023 upgrade, but the original still sounds great for less. → Read More
G.Skill KM250 RGB
The best budget gaming keyboard, and one with more than just a nod to the enthusiast keeb community. → Read More
Crucial T700 preview: The fastest PCIe 5.0 SSD on the planet... for what that's worth
Headline grabbing 12,000 MB/s speeds can't hide the fact there's little to tempt gamers. → Read More
The one PC purchase guaranteed to upgrade your gaming rig is just $63
Get the ultimate PC gaming setup, no matter what silicon sits in your rig. → Read More
Under $950 for a gaming PC with one of the best RTX 30-series GPUs in it? Yeah, that works
Sporting an RTX 3060 Ti and a 12-thread Intel i5, this is a serious gaming PC rocking a $450 discount. → Read More
Both AMD and Nvidia's latest drivers can do very bad things to your gaming PC
But there are workarounds should even the worst happen. → Read More
How Intel caught up to AMD's graphics card sales: Bad maths
Yeah, they didn't. Analyst group, Jon Peddie Research, wrongly counted 60,000+ expensive data centre GPUs when making its calculations. → Read More
One of Bing's new ChatGPT personalities wrote me some seriously puggy fanfic
You can now choose between more entertaining or more factual personalities... I know which I'm going to be using. → Read More
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D
A chip that delivers on the title of best gaming CPU better than any I've tested before, but it's not quite the one chip to do it all. → Read More
Seriously, what's the point in an RTX 4090 gaming laptop if a cheaper RTX 4080 can beat it?
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. → Read More
I make no apologies for the geeky pleasure I get watching a 56-core CPU just monster this benchmark
Come watch some $6,000 CPU benchmarking pr0n with me. → Read More
Ultra-enthusiast hardware is strangling PC gaming
A manufacturer obsession with creating ultra-expensive, ultra-enthusiast tech, almost to the exclusion of all else, is making PC gaming morbidly elitist. → Read More
MSI Titan GT77 HX
I think I actually hate it. Part of that, I will admit, is down to my deep-seated frustration at the ever-increasing price of modern gaming PC hardware, pricked by the fact that MSI has tagged the Tit → Read More
$898 will get you a full 1440p gaming PC. One screwdriver required
A bargain GPU-less PC and nicely discounted graphics card make the perfect gaming marriage at Newegg. → Read More
The best romances in PC gaming
Despite Valentine's Day being a stupid holiday created by greeting card companies to make more money, I've always been a bit of a sucker for it. I love romance in all its forms, but I'm → Read More
Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU rumours suggest it's worse than the laptop variant of the same chip
Mainstream PC gamers just can't catch a break, huh? → Read More
Oh damn, an RTX 4070 Ti gaming PC on sale for less than most RTX 3080 rigs
This RTX 40-series system brings a modern hybrid Intel chip and one of the most tempting new Nvidia cards together with a $200 discount. → Read More
An RTX 3070 Ti gaming PC for a price that makes all RTX 3070 'deals' irrelevant
For $1,500 you're getting an almost RTX 3080-level gaming PC with a Core i9 chip, 1TB SSD, and 16GB of memory. → Read More