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 B650E Aorus Pro X USB4 PCIe slot
Gigabyte's new B650E motherboard supports plump graphics cards weighing up to 58 kg

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Getting ready for some seriously chunky next-gen GPUs?

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Lenovo Legion 7000K MoDT gaming PC
Lenovo launches its Legion 7000K desktop gaming PCs: With laptop CPUs

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

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2400 SSD With NVMe
Micron gets hit with a whopping $445 million damages bill after it was found liable for patent infringements

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Not exactly chump change.

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MSI Project Zero motherboard with CAMM2 memory
MSI reveals an intriguing motherboard with CAMM2 memory support

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News A glimpse at the future or a one-off concept?

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MSI MPG B650I Edge WiFI board and box
MSI MPG B650I Edge WiFi review

By Chris Szewczyk Published

small pleasures This little board has a couple of key ticks that give it appeal.

small pleasures
TAIPEI, TAIWAN - 2023/06/01: Jensen Huang, President of NVIDIA holding the Grace hopper superchip CPU used for generative AI at supermicro keynote presentation during the COMPUTEX 2023. The COMPUTEX 2023 runs from 30 May to 02 June 2023 and gathers over 1,000 exhibitors from 26 different countries with 3000 booths to display their latest products and to sign orders with foreign buyers.
Nvidia shows no sign of slowing down as it rakes in more than $26 billion in a single quarter thanks to data center demand

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News The stock rose by 6% in after hours trading.

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. wafers
Apple reportedly seeks to lock out its competitors from TSMC's 2nm process, by booking all of its manufacturing capacity

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News That looks nice. We'll take all of it.

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3DMark Steel Nomad screenshot
3DMark Steel Nomad is now available to give your GPU an inferiority complex

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It's punishing, but not overly so.

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Dell XPS 13 and Lenovo Yoga Slim Snapdragon AI PC laptops
All the big laptop makers are embracing Qualcomm's Snapdragon X, here are all the 'PC reborn' models available for pre-order now

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News There's something about you, Snappy.

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A Microsoft Surface laptop with a Qualcomm X processor
Microsoft unveils the Copilot+ AI PC ecosystem, with Snapdragon X laptops exclusively leading the way

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Intel and AMD don't yet qualify.

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TCL 1000Hz 4K panel demonstration
TCL smashes the refresh rate barrier as it demonstrates a 4K 1000Hz panel

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Now we await the RTX 7090 and Display Port 3 to drive it.

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U.S. President Joe Biden holds a semiconductor before signing an executive order in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021.
The Biden administration is set to double tariffs on Chinese made semiconductors, potentially leading to more expensive PC hardware

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Round and round we go.

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Intel Thunderbolt 5 information
Intel's Thunderbolt Share is the easiest way yet to link and share data between two PCs

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It's not quite plug and play though.

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Asrock Z790I Lightning WiFi Mini-ITX Motherboard and box
ASRock Z790I Lightning WiFi motherboard review

By Chris Szewczyk Published

Petite Power A Mini-ITX board built for the tough demands of 13th and 14th Gen i9 processors.

Petite Power
Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master M.2 heatsink
Intel's efforts to develop a PCIe throttling driver point towards a very hot Gen 6 future

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Gen 5 drives are already hot enough.

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Images of Nvidia's Blackwell GPU from GTC.
Move over Blackwell: Nvidia's next-next gen GPU is reportedly codenamed Rubin, with a debut scheduled for late 2025

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Don't expect gaming variants until late 2026, though.

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Generic product image of an AMD Ryzen CPU, against a stylised background
AMD continues to chip away at Intel's CPU market dominance, though the laptop market is still a tough market to crack

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News And there's an upside with Zen 5 to come later this year.

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The TikTok logo is seen on a mobile phone screen in this photo illustration on 23 March, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland.
TikTok files a lawsuit to fight the 'extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights' that would result from a nationwide ban

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Just another day in Washington DC.

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The Fanatec GT DD Pro racing wheel and wheelbase on a desk with monitor playing Assetto Corsa behind.
Corsair to go all in on sim racing with plans to acquire Fanatec and help with its €70 million debt

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Legendary but recently beleaguered sim racing gear outfit to come under Corsair's umbrella.

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Two Corsair One i500 pcs with different wooden finishes
The new Corsair One i500 mini-PC just so happens to be one of the loveliest looking PCs I've ever seen

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Glorious wood.

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Intel Core i9 14900K CPU on a box and inside a motherboard socket.
Intel pressures all motherboard manufacturers to implement default power settings by the end of May

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Stock should actually mean stock.

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A fake Intel Core i9 14900K with heat spreader removed
Scammers have resorted to selling CPUs without dies, as a well-known Korean overclocker has discovered

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News Chips without chips.

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The Crypt Keeper introduces Windows 11's control panel
Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It's not winning the hearts and minds.

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A child with a sad paper bag on their head sits staring at an old PC.
Freakishly large graphics cards and super-hot SSDs mean the fundamentals of PC design needs a big change

By Chris Szewczyk Published

revamp The ATX standard needs to be revisited.

revamp
Scuderia Ferrari F1 car and Charles Leclerc with HP branding
HP spends big to secure title sponsorship rights for the Ferrari Formula One team

By Chris Szewczyk Published

News It'll help pay Lewis Hamilton's salary!

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