Chris Szewczyk

Chris Szewczyk

Hardware Writer

Chris' gaming experiences go back to the mid-nineties when he conned his parents into buying an 'educational PC' that was conveniently overpowered to play Doom and Tie Fighter. He developed a love of extreme overclocking that destroyed his savings despite the cheaper hardware on offer via his job at a PC store. To afford more LN2 he began moonlighting as a reviewer for VR-Zone before jumping the fence to work for MSI Australia. Since then, he's gone back to journalism, enthusiastically reviewing the latest and greatest components for PC & Tech Authority, PC Powerplay and currently Australian Personal Computer magazine and PC Gamer. Chris still puts far too many hours into Borderlands 3, always striving to become a more efficient killer.

Latest articles by Chris Szewczyk

Teamgroup T-Force Xtreem DDR5 memory installed in a motherboard
DDR5-10000 memory is closer than ever after JEDEC, the managing body of the standard, extends the base DDR5 spec

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Let's see what those next-gen CPUs are capable of.

News
Fake Samsung 1080 Pro 4TB SSD
Fake Samsung 1080 Pro SSDs show up on Aliexpress, and the benchmark results are hilarious

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It's surprising the damn thing even works at all.

News
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Windows 10 users are soon to be hit with nagging prompts asking them to create an online account

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It's an improvement—supposedly.

News
Galax RTX 4060 Ti Unparalleled Max graphics card
Galax's single-slot RTX 4060 Ti is out in the wild, though sadly it appears to be a little tempestuous

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News 165W is a little beyond a single slot cooler according to a new review.

News
Windows 11 2H22 update screenshots
The ultimate bloatware removal tool now works on any version of Windows 11

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It's a great way to add Windows 11 support to an older machine.

News
Teamgroup T-Force Z540 SSD
Teamgroup Z540 2TB NVMe SSD review

By Chris Szewczyk Published

getting there We're not there yet, but the price of this speedy Gen 5 drive is slowly becoming more palatable.

getting there
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Snapdragon Edition laptop
Arm laptops are almost ready for prime time, and some new benchmarks with a Snapdragon X processor will have Intel, AMD and even Apple worried

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News This Lenovo Yoga Slim Snapdragon Edition looks great.

News
Acer Z57
Acer's curvy Predator Z57 dual UHD MiniLED 57-inch monitor hits retail for $1,999

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News We're gonna need a bigger desk.

News
Asus desktop ATX motherboard with SO-DIMM memory slots
Desktop ATX motherboards with SO-DIMM memory slots? It's not as silly as it sounds

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Asus went and did it.

News
melted 12VHPWR power connector
A repair shop reveals the RTX 4090 melting connector problem remains worryingly widespread

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News 200 in one month!

News
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It's a new week with a new development in the ongoing China-US tech dispute: Now China is going to ban US chips from its telco networks from 2027

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Tit-for-tat.

News
TSMC
Taiwanese chipmaking bounces back after last week's 7.4 magnitude earthquake

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Chip makers were well prepared.

News
An MSI graphics card showing the apparent effects of long term exposure to bright RGB LEDs
It's not just OLEDs that can suffer from burn in. Your graphics card's backplate might suffer from it too

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News My retinas at night know the feeling.

News
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A comprehensive online privacy bill is one step closer after US Congressional leaders reach a tentative bipartisan deal

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Hands off my data you big tech grubs.

News
TSMC wafer in manufacturing
The US seeks not just to block China's access to advanced chip making tech, it wants to ban servicing on the equipment it already has

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News No sales, and no service.

News
AMD Ryzen CPU in Zen logo
The launch of AMD's Zen 5 processors is close, as motherboard manufacturers begin rolling out BIOSes supporting the next-gen chips

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Computex is just a matter of weeks away.

News
MSI B660 Tomahawk PCIe slots
PCIe 7.0 is on track for a 2025 release, which means SSDs with speeds of up to 60GB/s should be available in the coming years

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Just one PCIe 7.0 lane has as much bandwidth as four PCIe 5.0 lanes

News
MSI Project Zero PC
Building a rig with MSI's Project Zero is a glimpse into the (almost) cable-less future of PC gaming

By Chris Szewczyk Published

Cables begone! We can't yet cut out PC cables, so completely hiding them gives us the next best thing.

Cables begone!
Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD backplate and SSD heatsink
Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD OC review

By Chris Szewczyk Published

Innovation A graphics card and an SSD walk into a bar...

Innovation
New hero Fuse drinks from a bottle in front of flames
AI is poised to tackle some of the world's most important issues, including making beer taste better

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Beer: Even when its bad it's still pretty good.

News
Panasonic Aviation Astrova in-flight entertainment system
Economy class will be slightly less punishing if you fly on an aircraft with Panasonic's Astrova in-flight entertainment system

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Now, about those seats...

News
intel cpu
The Chinese government is phasing out Intel and AMD CPUs and Microsoft's Windows OS because they don't fit its new 'safe and reliable' guidelines

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News This is getting nasty.

News
Image of a physical Bitcoin on a PCB.
Iceland's prime minister favors farming over finance as Bitcoin miners feast on the island's cheap power

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Maize over mining.

News
Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti graphics card
Nvidia's RTX 4060, 4060 Ti, and 4070 are set to receive GPU updates, but sadly it looks like they won't bring any improvements

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Same specs. Different GPUs.

News
HP Omen 15 laptop
HP's Omen 17 with an RTX 4090 is an absolute steal right now at AU$3,599

By Chris Szewczyk Published

Deals Good luck finding even an RTX 4080 machine at this price.

Deals
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