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
Best M.2 SSDs for gaming: my top picks for blazing fast storage
By Jeremy Laird last updated
High speed Our choices for the best NVMe M.2 SSDs give you blisteringly fast load times.
Best SSD for gaming: the speediest SSDs I personally recommend
By Jeremy Laird last updated
Speedy storage Give your gaming PC a serious speed boost with the best SSD for gaming.
Best gaming motherboards: these are the mobos I'd build a system around today
By Dave James last updated
Best Mobo The best gaming motherboards from the top Intel and AMD chipsets.
Best graphics cards: the GPUs I recommend for every budget
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Pixel Pushers Our picks of the most powerful gaming GPUs and the ones that provide the best bang for your buck.
Best RAM for gaming: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
Dynamic I've put the top gaming memory through its paces to find out what the best RAM to pair with your new gaming PC is.
Best webcams: the 1080p and 4K webcams I recommend for gamers and streamers
By Jacob Ridley last updated
Look Your Best These are the best webcams for streaming and video calls.
Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2024: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
Mini marvels The best Mini-ITX motherboards for both Intel and AMD.
Intel's Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs won't have the instability issues affecting 13th and 14th Gen processors
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Oh, and a reminder to update your BIOS if you're running a 13th or 14th Gen chip.
If you're gaming with a Zen 5 system, you'll bag some major performance gains from the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 update
By Chris Szewczyk published
News If only it came out a month or so ago...
Gamers hoping to build a Ryzen 9000-series system with an affordable B850 motherboard are set for a long wait
By Chris Szewczyk published
News B650 motherboards are going to be around for some time yet.
MSI's X870 and X870E motherboards come with an auxiliary 8-pin power connector, which could indicate some scary next-gen GPU power consumption levels
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Up to 225W from the board alone, with god knows how much extra from GPU mounted connectors.
Asus unveils its X870/X870E motherboard lineup at Gamescom 2024 and they look pretty darn good
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The feature sets are rich, and the prices likely are too.
US lawmakers believe TP-Link networking products come with an 'unusual degree of vulnerabilities' leaving them vulnerable to hackers
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The members expressed national security concerns.
MSI's PBO Enhanced Modes take Ryzen 9000 series chips off the leash, giving you up to 15% extra performance
By Chris Szewczyk published
News That's more like it.
Best CPU coolers: I've loaded these AIO and air coolers onto today's top CPUs
By Dave James last updated
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
AMD Zen 5 architecture: A ground up redesign that lays the foundation for future Ryzen CPU architectures
By Chris Szewczyk published
AMD is confident a 16% IPC uplift will see its Ryzen 9000-series ascend the CPU silicon throne.
Asus ROG Strix Z790-I Gaming WiFi motherboard review
By Chris Szewczyk published
power packed Big on features, but not on size.
AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D-series chips reportedly gain full overclocking support, meaning simple tweaks would make them the all-round chips we always wished for
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Cache AND clock speed.
Asus ROG Strix X670E-I Gaming WiFi review
By Chris Szewczyk published
fully loaded Asus proves it really is possible to load up a Mini-ITX board with lots of goodies.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is so good at gaming, AMD might give more juice to the Ryzen 7 9700X in order to beat it
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Scotty, we need more power.
Intel claims its optical interconnect chiplet technology is 'like going from using horse-drawn carriages to using cars and trucks'
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It can deliver 4Tbps of bandwidth from 100m away.
ASRock B760I Lightning WiFi review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Itty bitty beaut An itty bitty B760 board that'll happily dance with any 14th Gen CPU you care to name.
Why bother using spinning fans to cool your PC when you can just spin your whole rig?
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The protective riot shield is a bit of a giveaway to the answer to that question.
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