Chris Szewczyk
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
![Intel Core i9 13900K Raptor Lake chip on a promotional box](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2WedBSuGguWVjNzRkW8WqY-320-80.jpg)
Intel retakes some CPU market share from AMD as CPU shipments tick upwards
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The bottom is in?
![Intel Meteor Lake S CPU engineering sample](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/L9ryTR3qK47TRLBSpwzCfD-320-80.jpg)
Next gen Intel LGA1851 desktop CPU pictured
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The one after 14th Gen.
![Intel Core i5 11400F processor](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nQv22mxKTD2yddW8TnWee8-320-80.jpg)
Intel 'Downfall' CPU vulnerability exposes sensitive data
By Chris Szewczyk published
News And the fix can dramatically reduce performance.
![Seagate FireCuda 540 SSD installed on a motherboard](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9jDAKAuadJZ5TVjrA49T2f-320-80.jpg)
Seagate FireCuda 540 review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Pricey performance High performance and peace of mind at a very steep early adopter price.
![Silicon Motion SM2508](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QuoJ6kQTPYZposUGjRcASP-320-80.jpg)
PCIe 5.0 SSDs with 14GB/s speeds are coming, and more importantly, with lower power consumption too
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Faster and cooler.
![AMD and Intel CPUs](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9BJB86MrVps7JwMQG256xD-320-80.jpg)
A quarterly uptick in CPU shipments provides a spark of optimism for the PC market
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The future is looking brighter. Slightly.
![SK Hynix P41](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aKv8DxqVTg9JxYcM8kioTg-320-80.jpeg)
The most powerful 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is less than $65 right now
By Chris Szewczyk published
Deal High performance. High value.
![Asrock A770](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5kd7khmgKPW4gphb4sL4N7-320-80.jpeg)
ASRock RX 7700 XT confirmed via EEC listing
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It's got a decent memory spec.
![An image of the best DDR4 RAM for gaming on a grey background with a PC Gamer recommended badge.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5tgfaXo4NK7jy979VqTdwG-320-80.jpg)
Best DDR4 RAM for gaming in 2024
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
DDR4 Avoid bottlenecks with the best DDR4 RAM for gaming.
![Colorful iGame RTX 4060 Ti Mini](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ufk3pKe3QvmgPFh2EBiVfE-320-80.jpg)
Colorful is set to launch the cutest little RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Will a vendor risk launching a single slot RTX 40 card?
![Vic Tech FL Mechanical Keyboard](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nTwmhFaHkNYbZEkLiLEtmY-320-80.jpg)
This AI can steal your data by listening to your keystrokes with 95% accuracy
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Can we ban Cherry MX Blue keyboards now?
![Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme motherboard socket up-close](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZHkAupEmqPTUhpfT786hkk-320-80.jpg)
AM5 motherboards are about to receive support for much faster memory
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Don't expect performance miracles, though.
![ASRock Z790 Taichi Lite](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kpNP36obEBYVJ6X8xTyX-320-80.jpg)
ASRock Z790 Taichi Lite review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Less is more A flagship motherboard at a price that can't be beat.
![PowerColor Red Devil AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BKBmzXPHx9Qj9xXkJnj4GY-320-80.jpg)
PowerColor listing confirms the RX 7800 XT, complete with full specifications
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Someone at PowerColor got sent to the naughty corner.
![Lenovo Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kH7VXtA8Atksfc7E3aCMiC-320-80.jpg)
Our number one pick for best gaming laptop has a $600 discount
By Chris Szewczyk published
Deal Lenovo Legion Pro 7i (Gen8) | Intel Core i7 13900HX | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 | 1TB SSD | 32GB DDR5 RAM | $2,149
![Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti graphics card](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PMMpXnQopw8bvQNgi8tp5n-320-80.jpg)
Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti vs RTX 3060 Ti and 7 of its biggest rival GPUs
By Chris Szewczyk published
Head-to-head We compare the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB to its rivals in a series of head-to-head matchups.
![Intel HQ with logo sign outside](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mZRcbidJXVcdFTP4ywqSKE-320-80.jpg)
Intel's next-next gen Lunar Lake architectural details surface
By Chris Szewczyk published
News You'll need a boat to navigate all these lakes.
![WD Black SN770](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UYB7DAFbCNBC2i5sEySScR-320-80.png)
Our favorite 1TB SSD drops to just $43
By Chris Szewczyk published
Deal Anything under 1TB is basically obsolete.
![Nvidia RTX 4080](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tMkhwXQvtAWoYPFZSsUeX8-320-80.jpeg)
Nvidia's next-gen flagship rumored to receive a huge bandwidth increase, thanks to a 512-bit memory bus
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Potentially double that of the RTX 4090.
![Intel PowerVia test chip](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/H8yrjvQPWAYNVYNvVVEwTF-320-80.jpg)
European Union Council approves €43 billion Chips Act
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It aims to reduce reliance on foreign made semiconductors.
![Minisforum Mini-ITX PC prototype on a desk](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SQRiybCKFLNBcQR4xmwTeX-320-80.jpg)
Minisforum's new mini-ITX PC lets you mount a GPU on top of the case
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Like a giant flash drive, sort of.
![MSI Crosshair 16 on a blue background](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zUWCEKKadmFZcLgZ9pLyQT-320-80.png)
A gaming laptop with an RTX 4070 and 13th Gen i7 CPU for $1,400 sounds pretty good to me
By Chris Szewczyk published
Deal Intel Core i7 13620H | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070| 1TB SSD | 16GB RAM | $1,399
![AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX photographed with box on a white background.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/P7N8M9kWxdsvnETzz9gY2F-320-80.jpg)
AMD's RX 7900 GRE is coming to China, but what's under the hood?
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The Golden Rabbit Edition is coming.