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

Some code in purple and white whooshing away from the screen.

Government developer leaves database credentials on an old blog post potentially causing the largest data hack in history

By Dave James published 6 July 22

News The personal details of 1 billion Chinese nationals, allegedly from the Shanghai National Police database, went on sale for 10 bitcoin last week.

Modders are busy hacking AMD's FSR 2.0 into a host of Nvidia DLSS games so we gave it a go too

By Dave James published 4 July 22

News Based on the original Cyberpunk 2077 mod, AMD's powerful upscaler has now hit Red Dead Redemption 2 and a whole bunch of DLSS-based games.

I too laughed at this ridiculous SSD tower cooler and now I fear it might augur a super-heated future

By Dave James published 4 July 22

News SSD makers keep telling us PCI 5.0 drives are going to be hotter, but hot enough to need this?

Elden Ring gameplay superimposed on a Valve Steam Deck

Valve says Steam Deck's SSD change impacts performance only in 'extremely uncommon cases'

By Dave James last updated 30 June 22

news And then only in file transfers—"OS performance, loading times, game performance, and game responsiveness are identical."

All Windows 11's worst install pain points can now be bypassed using this genius app

By Dave James published 28 June 22

news The Rufus media creation tool's latest beta release has rid us of the mandatory Microsoft account login as well as those TPM 2.0 requirements.

Colorful GTX 1630 graphics card exploded shot

This is the saddest GPU launch in history and for once I'm not talking about the Intel Arc A380

By Dave James published 28 June 22

News You're telling me they couldn't make a GTX 1650 Super for $159 today?

Intel's official Arc A380 gaming benchmarks confirm it's on average 15% slower than a 3 year-old GPU

By Dave James published 28 June 22

News The Arc A380 reviewer's guide lists 17 different games against Nvidia's GTX 1650 and AMD's RX 6400.

How do you train an AI to play Minecraft? Feed it 70,000 hours of YouTube gameplay

By Dave James published 27 June 22

news The makers of DALL-E have created a neural network capable of playing Minecraft to an impressively high level.

AI impression of an 800W RTX 4090 graphics card

I used AI to help Nvidia design an 800W version of the RTX 4090

By Dave James published 27 June 22

news Nvidia's reportedly been testing an over-powered version of its upcoming GPUs, so I figured I'd help with the overall design.

The Steam Deck's interior, with the fan front and center.

Steam Deck designer says SSD mod 'will significantly shorten the life of your Deck'

By Dave James last updated 29 June 22

news But I still love the fact that Valve has made it possible for people to really dig into their Decks, even if it disapproves.