Articles by Dave James

Asus STRIX GTX 960 OC Edition review

By Dave James published 28 February 15

Super-cool, super-quiet - is Asus' version of Nvidia's mid-range Maxwell card the best of the whole bunch?

AMD FX-8320E review

By Dave James published 27 February 15

A budget-priced, lower-powered, eight-threaded CPU from AMD's FX range. Can it compete against the quad-core i5s?

Viewsonic VX2363Smhl review

By Dave James published 31 January 15

Avoid the usual budget TN screens and bag yourself a decent IPS panel for a bargain-basement price.

Creative Sound Blaster E5 review

By Dave James published 30 January 15

Creative's ultra-versatile mini-amp is just as at home in your coat pocket as plugged into your gaming PC.

Intel Core i7-5960X review

By Dave James published 13 December 14

The first full eight-core consumer-class processor from Intel is just about the most powerful CPU we've ever jammed in our test rig.

Core M benchmarks: Why this CPU is the perfect candidate for the Surface Pro 4

By Dave James published 22 September 14

Analysis And why this first 14nm Broadwell chip will make Surface Pro 3 obsolete already

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 review

By Dave James published 19 September 14

The super-efficient GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 cards are here.

Game developers have to start thinking differently, says Intel

By Dave James published 16 September 14

Analysis It's about how much you can process at a time rather than how fast your machine can overclock to.

Will Intel's Skylake processor sink Broadwell before it can swim?

By Dave James published 15 September 14

Analysis Broadwell could well be the Intel CPU family with the shortest lifespan ever.

EVGA GTX 750 Ti FTW review

By Dave James published 29 June 14

This EVGA graphics card has been overclocked by 16% but comes with a high price tag.

Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti OC review

By Dave James published 28 June 14

Gigabyte might have proclaimed this as overclocked, but does it really provide enough extra power?

Performance PC memory: is it worth upgrading?

By Dave James published 28 December 13

In Depth Just how much difference does memory bandwidth make to your PC? We set out to discover the truth

How to build the perfect Steam PC

By Dave James published 27 December 13

In Depth Valve's tiny Steam machine prototype is available to a select few, but we'll show you how to build your very own Steam PC right now.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti review

By Dave James published 8 November 13

Recommended

There's no getting away from it, this is the graphics card we've been waiting for since we first heard about Nvidia's Kepler GPU architecture.

Palicomp Haswell i5 Gamer review

By Dave James published 7 November 13

Mini Review This budget gaming PC may not have the best CPU/GPU combo, but the choice of a Haswell CPU offers a solid base for future GPU upgrades.

AMD Radeon R9-290X review

By Dave James published 5 November 13

Updated Finally after rebranding almost its entire line of HD 7000 series cards with the new Rx prefix, AMD is ready with a brand new GPU.

AMD Radeon R9 290 review

By Dave James published 5 November 13

Recommended

No sooner had we finished our R9 290X review but the red-tinged graphics gurus go and release another card based on the same GPU.

CyberPower Ultra Fusion review

By Dave James published 5 November 13

The dual-core APU in the heart of this rig won't give an Atom a run for its money, and it gives this CyberPower machine problems.

Computer Planet ND 200 review

By Dave James published 4 November 13

The elderly heart of the motherboard gives the ND 200 some serious problems going forward, however good it might be now.

Chillblast Fusion Cannon review

By Dave James published 3 November 13

Mini Review The Chillblast Fusion Cannon is a fine little gaming rig that's gives great performance, with plenty of room to grow.

Wired2Fire Velocity Ultima review

By Dave James published 1 November 13

The Velocity Ultima is a quality little gaming rig, though that A85X chipset doesn't give you much room to upgrade.

Gainward GeForce GT 640 rev.2 review

By Dave James published 29 October 13

MINI REVIEW Low-profile graphics loving with a new Kepler heart

Sapphire Radeon HD 7730 2GB DDR3 review

By Dave James published 24 October 13

Mini Review Sometimes the graphics card industry makes us a sad panda.

Sapphire Radeon HD 7730 1GB GDDR5 review

By Dave James published 20 October 13

Mini Review Can this budget graphics card offer up a decent amount of gaming performance?

Overclockers Gold Rush Gamer Pro review

By Dave James published 15 October 13

Mini Review A gaming desktop packing top-of-the-range components, but does it offer top-of-the-range performance?