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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scammers have resorted to selling CPUs without dies, as a well-known Korean overclocker has discovered
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Chips without chips.
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.
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.
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming in 2024
By Jeremy Laird last updated
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Best SSD for gaming in 2024
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
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!
DDR5-10000 memory is closer than ever after JEDEC, the managing body of the standard, extends the base DDR5 spec
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Let's see what those next-gen CPUs are capable of.
Fake Samsung 1080 Pro SSDs show up on Aliexpress, and the benchmark results are hilarious
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It's surprising the damn thing even works at all.
Windows 10 users are soon to be hit with nagging prompts asking them to create an online account
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It's an improvement—supposedly.
Galax's single-slot RTX 4060 Ti is out in the wild, though sadly it appears to be a little tempestuous
By Chris Szewczyk published
News 165W is a little beyond a single slot cooler according to a new review.