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

Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X motherboard and box
Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X review

By Chris Szewczyk Published

Memory master A board built for demanding 14th Gen processors.

Memory master
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000-Series render
AMD brings Threadripper back to the desktop with a new non-Pro range of monster chips... that I'm going to now call Wallet-ripper

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News You can also jam in full Pro chip into your desktop, too, so fancy a beast rig with up to 96 cores?

News
ZBOX pico PI430AJ with AirJet
Zotac’s new Mini PC will hopefully usher in a new era of device cooling

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Airflow without fans.

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AMD RX 6750 XT graphics card
AMD's newly announced RX 6750 GRE cards are strong RTX 4060 competitors, though you won't find them on shelves in the west

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Expect a few to pop up in OEM systems, though.

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
AMD's Fluid Motion Frames tech now works in any DX11 and DX12 game with any RX 7000 and RX 6000-series graphics card

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It won't magically make a slow card fast though.

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Intel NUC Beast Canyon
The NUC is in good hands with Asus as it outlines its future plans

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It's commercial stuff, but gaming NUCs are under consideration too.

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A laptop covered in tools and equipment
California's right to repair bill is now law, so don't toss that 'old' device just yet

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It's a big win for consumers.

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Express VPN
Russia seeks to stop access to unfiltered information by attempting to ban VPNs

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Easier said than done.

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AMD Phoenix
AMD APUs are set to make their AM5 debut after support was added to AMD's latest BIOS microcode

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Phoenix Ryzing.

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ASRock Arc A580 Challenger OC graphics card
The Intel Arc A580 graphics card has finally broken cover

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News ASRock and Sparkle cards pictured.

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AMD Threadripper CPU render with name on chip
96 core AMD Threadripper Pro 7000-series chips reportedly ready for launch on October 19

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Lots of cores, cache, and, er... cash.

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Microsoft Copilot screenshot
Windows Copilot is not playing well with AMD's Adrenalin software

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News But there's a fix if you're having problems.

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RGB PC
Windows 11's RGB control features are finally available to the public

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News The dream of a unified RGB ecosystem takes a giant leap forward.

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MSI RTX 3060 Gaming X
There's a new king of the GPUs in Steam's September hardware survey

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News And CPU core counts continue to rise.

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Cooler Master Sneaker X PC
Give your old PC the boot with Cooler Master's Sneaker X gaming PC

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It's uhh, unique.

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Forspoken Cover
AMD FSR 3 and frame generation support is debuting in two games this week

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Two games to start with, and more to follow.

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Intel engineers work in Fab 34, the newest Intel manufacturing facility in Ireland
Intel begins high-volume production of Intel 4 node chips this week

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News The second step on Intel's 'five nodes in four years' roadmap is all systems go.

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Graphics cards on a green background
Hackers could steal your data via an unpatched GPU pixel-stealing attack. Though that 'could' is doing some real heavy lifting

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News All GPUs are affected.

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MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Gaming X NV Edition
MSI's green themed RTX 4060 NV Edition graphics card is perfect for showing the world just how much you love Nvidia

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Limited to 6,000 units.

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Selection of graphics cards on a multicoloured background
Newegg announces a hassle-free GPU trade-in program

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News But don't expect to get big bucks for your old GPU.

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OpenAI logo displayed on a phone screen and ChatGPT website displayed on a laptop screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 5, 2022.
ChatGPT update gives it eyes and ears

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It evolves...

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Scott Herkelman
Radeon boss Scott Herkelman will leave AMD at the end of the year

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News He hopes the company beats 'the final boss'.

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Aerial view of MS Datacenter in Holland .
Microsoft's data centers of the future could be nuclear powered

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Now that's a power up!

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. wafers
US to introduce 'guardrails' to ensure that companies benefitting from CHIPS Act funding spend it where they should be

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Not a penny for China.

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Intel Meteor Lake up-close in assembly.
Intel's Meteor Lake chips are coming to desktops after all

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Intel's executive VP confirms.

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