
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

AMD to announce its new graphics cards at Gamescom
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Just a few days from now.

The new 3DMark benchmark lets you test the ray tracing performance of your Android phone
By Chris Szewczyk published
News You can run it on PC too, as I did.

Australian Senate committee warns TikTok and WeChat could be the country's biggest security risks
By Chris Szewczyk published
News A ban on WeChat from all government devices has been recommended.

AI chatbots and large language models are little more than 'glorified tape recorders'
By Chris Szewczyk published
News According to Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist.

Intel retakes some CPU market share from AMD as CPU shipments tick upwards
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The bottom is in?

Next gen Intel LGA1851 desktop CPU pictured
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The one after 14th Gen.

Intel 'Downfall' CPU vulnerability exposes sensitive data
By Chris Szewczyk published
News And the fix can dramatically reduce performance.

Seagate FireCuda 540 review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Pricey performance High performance and peace of mind at a very steep early adopter price.

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.

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.

ASRock RX 7700 XT confirmed via EEC listing
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It's got a decent memory spec.

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?

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?

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 review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Less is more A flagship motherboard at a price that can't be beat.

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.

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's next-next gen Lunar Lake architectural details surface
By Chris Szewczyk published
News You'll need a boat to navigate all these lakes.

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.

European Union Council approves €43 billion Chips Act
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It aims to reduce reliance on foreign made semiconductors.

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.

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.

AMD 3D V-Cache CPUs are coming to laptops, and they'll contend for the gaming crown
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It's about time!
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