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

By Jacob Ridley Last updated
Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

By Dave James Last updated
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.

By Jeremy Laird Last updated
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.

By Chris Szewczyk Last updated
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.

By Nick Evanson Last updated
Mini marvels The best Mini-ITX motherboards for both Intel and AMD.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News Oh, and a reminder to update your BIOS if you're running a 13th or 14th Gen chip.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News If only it came out a month or so ago...

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News B650 motherboards are going to be around for some time yet.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News Up to 225W from the board alone, with god knows how much extra from GPU mounted connectors.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News The feature sets are rich, and the prices likely are too.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News The members expressed national security concerns.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News That's more like it.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
AMD is confident a 16% IPC uplift will see its Ryzen 9000-series ascend the CPU silicon throne.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
power packed Big on features, but not on size.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News Cache AND clock speed.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
fully loaded Asus proves it really is possible to load up a Mini-ITX board with lots of goodies.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News Scotty, we need more power.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News It can deliver 4Tbps of bandwidth from 100m away.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
Itty bitty beaut An itty bitty B760 board that'll happily dance with any 14th Gen CPU you care to name.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
News The protective riot shield is a bit of a giveaway to the answer to that question.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
All white Do you fancy a white-themed Mini-ITX Intel build? This MSI could be what you're looking for.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
no frills A no-frills board that's about the cheapest option there is if you want a compact AMD system.

By Chris Szewczyk Published
news It does have a mostly impressive spec list.
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