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
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.
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.
The ultimate bloatware removal tool now works on any version of Windows 11
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It's a great way to add Windows 11 support to an older machine.
Teamgroup Z540 2TB NVMe SSD review
By Chris Szewczyk published
getting there We're not there yet, but the price of this speedy Gen 5 drive is slowly becoming more palatable.
Arm laptops are almost ready for prime time, and some new benchmarks with a Snapdragon X processor will have Intel, AMD and even Apple worried
By Chris Szewczyk published
News This Lenovo Yoga Slim Snapdragon Edition looks great.
Acer's curvy Predator Z57 dual UHD MiniLED 57-inch monitor hits retail for $1,999
By Chris Szewczyk published
News We're gonna need a bigger desk.
Desktop ATX motherboards with SO-DIMM memory slots? It's not as silly as it sounds
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Asus went and did it.
A repair shop reveals the RTX 4090 melting connector problem remains worryingly widespread
By Chris Szewczyk published
News 200 in one month!
It's a new week with a new development in the ongoing China-US tech dispute: Now China is going to ban US chips from its telco networks from 2027
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Tit-for-tat.
Taiwanese chipmaking bounces back after last week's 7.4 magnitude earthquake
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Chip makers were well prepared.
It's not just OLEDs that can suffer from burn in. Your graphics card's backplate might suffer from it too
By Chris Szewczyk published
News My retinas at night know the feeling.
A comprehensive online privacy bill is one step closer after US Congressional leaders reach a tentative bipartisan deal
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Hands off my data you big tech grubs.
The US seeks not just to block China's access to advanced chip making tech, it wants to ban servicing on the equipment it already has
By Chris Szewczyk published
News No sales, and no service.
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