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
The AI hype means Nvidia is making shiploads of cash
By Chris Szewczyk published
News 1,000% profit on its H100 GPU.
ASRock confirms key Intel 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh details and gives some performance info too
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Short of an Intel press release, it's pretty official folks.
All recent AMD CPUs are affected by the 'Inception' vulnerability
By Chris Szewczyk published
News But there's a sign gamers will emerge unscathed.
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.
Best DDR4 RAM for gaming in 2024
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
DDR4 Avoid bottlenecks with the best DDR4 RAM for gaming.
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.
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