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's upcoming hybrid APU smiles for the camera
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Big and little cores are coming to AMD chips.
Toyota factories grind to a halt after its servers run out of disk space
By Chris Szewczyk published
News I don't suppose anyone has a spare flash drive handy?
Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT Review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Overshadowed A capable card that's overshadowed by its big brother.
From wafer to your PC: Behind the curtain of some of Intel's most advanced manufacturing facilities
By Chris Szewczyk published
Highest tech Testing, sorting, packaging and testing. And then some more testing.
Intel shows off a maths defying 8-core chip with 528 threads and optical interconnects
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Hyper ultra mega threading.
Farewell AMD RX 6600-series. AMD pulls the plug on Navi 23 chip production.
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The RX 7600 is taking over.
Intel 14th Gen CPUs are set to receive a price hike
By Chris Szewczyk published
News But there could be a silver lining.
You can run Linux on a Commodore 64 if you really want to
By Chris Szewczyk published
News If you don't mind waiting a week for it to boot.
Why should you buy a high capacity memory kit? A better question is: why not?
By Chris Szewczyk published
Moar! High speed, high capacity modules are looking pretty good right now.
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.
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