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

Belgium, Brussels, European Commission, European flags at Berlaymont building
The EU says 'prove it' to companies that are dubiously claiming their products are environmentally friendly

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Slapping a 'sustainable' sticker on packaging is not enough.

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Basim showing off his hidden blade
Assassin's Creed Mirage will support DLSS and FSR after all

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Not just XeSS.

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ProArt Cinema PQ07 Micro LED display showcased at Computex 2023
Asus' 135-inch Micro-LED display is utterly ridiculous yet utterly lustworthy

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News What a bargain.

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Intel CPU wafer
Stacked 3D cache is coming to Intel CPUs, and gamers should be excited

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Not imminently though.

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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.
A new survey finds the public are growing increasingly wary of AI

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Calls for a regulatory framework are ramping up.

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Microsoft logo
Oops, Microsoft left 38TB of sensitive data exposed for 3 years including internal Teams chats

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Seems like the wrong box was left ticked.

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ChatGPT text box with the word redacted covering the response
UK market authority lays down guidance for principled use of AI

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Helping you help us all.

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Futuristic glowing blue wi-fi symbol on black dark background with blurred reflection
Intel quietly launches its speedy Wi-Fi 7 chipsets

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Motherboards with WiFi 7 are imminent.

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Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 7800 XT 3/4 view
Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Review

By Chris Szewczyk Published

Graphics Cards
Threadripper
AMD's next gen Threadripper Pro 7000-series chips come with up to 96 cores, and I long for consumer versions

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News We need a proper HEDT platform.

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AMD Radeon RX 7600 logo closeup
We thought AMD's RX 7000-series was complete, but now the RX 7600 XT has broken cover

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Someone's been waiting in the wings.

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Intel Core i5 13400F CPU in a motherboard socket
Start saving, because Intel's 14th Gen CPUs are reportedly launching in just a few weeks

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News The K SKUs will come first.

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Nvidia Resizable BAR
Nvidia owners can get a big FPS boost in Starfield with this manual ReBAR tweak

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News The secret is enabling Resizable BAR yourself.

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Microsoft Paint Background removal tool being demonstrated.
Microsoft Paint is getting updated with one of Photoshop's most commonly used tools

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Background removal is coming to MS Paint, and it's free!

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AMD Phoenix 2 APU die shot showing Zen4 and Zen 4c cores
AMD's upcoming hybrid APU smiles for the camera

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Big and little cores are coming to AMD chips.

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Toyota's Motomachi assembly production line
Toyota factories grind to a halt after its servers run out of disk space

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News I don't suppose anyone has a spare flash drive handy?

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Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics card
Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT Review

By Chris Szewczyk Published

Overshadowed A capable card that's overshadowed by its big brother.

Overshadowed
Journalists visit Intel's Malaysia manufacturing facilities
From wafer to your PC: Behind the curtain of some of Intel's most advanced manufacturing facilities

By Chris Szewczyk Published

Highest tech Testing, sorting, packaging and testing. And then some more testing.

Highest tech
Intel's 8c/528t CPU
Intel shows off a maths defying 8-core chip with 528 threads and optical interconnects

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Hyper ultra mega threading.

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XFX Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card
Farewell AMD RX 6600-series. AMD pulls the plug on Navi 23 chip production.

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News The RX 7600 is taking over.

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Intel Raptor Lake chip with die diagram edited beneath the heat spreader
Intel 14th Gen CPUs are set to receive a price hike

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News But there could be a silver lining.

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The Commodore 64
You can run Linux on a Commodore 64 if you really want to

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News If you don't mind waiting a week for it to boot.

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G,Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR4-6400 2x32GB
Why should you buy a high capacity memory kit? A better question is: why not?

By Chris Szewczyk Published

Moar! High speed, high capacity modules are looking pretty good right now.

Moar!
GRACE H100 GPU in front of a gray back drop.
The AI hype means Nvidia is making shiploads of cash

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News 1,000% profit on its H100 GPU.

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Intel Raptor Lake CPU render up close
ASRock confirms key Intel 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh details and gives some performance info too

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Short of an Intel press release, it's pretty official folks.

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