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

US to introduce 'guardrails' to ensure that companies benefitting from CHIPS Act funding spend it where they should be
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Not a penny for China.

Intel's Meteor Lake chips are coming to desktops after all
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Intel's executive VP confirms.

The EU says 'prove it' to companies that are dubiously claiming their products are environmentally friendly
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Slapping a 'sustainable' sticker on packaging is not enough.

Assassin's Creed Mirage will support DLSS and FSR after all
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Not just XeSS.

Asus' 135-inch Micro-LED display is utterly ridiculous yet utterly lustworthy
By Chris Szewczyk published
News What a bargain.

Stacked 3D cache is coming to Intel CPUs, and gamers should be excited
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Not imminently though.

A new survey finds the public are growing increasingly wary of AI
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Calls for a regulatory framework are ramping up.

Oops, Microsoft left 38TB of sensitive data exposed for 3 years including internal Teams chats
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Seems like the wrong box was left ticked.

UK market authority lays down guidance for principled use of AI
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Helping you help us all.

Intel quietly launches its speedy Wi-Fi 7 chipsets
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Motherboards with WiFi 7 are imminent.

AMD's next gen Threadripper Pro 7000-series chips come with up to 96 cores, and I long for consumer versions
By Chris Szewczyk published
News We need a proper HEDT platform.

We thought AMD's RX 7000-series was complete, but now the RX 7600 XT has broken cover
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Someone's been waiting in the wings.

Start saving, because Intel's 14th Gen CPUs are reportedly launching in just a few weeks
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The K SKUs will come first.

Nvidia owners can get a big FPS boost in Starfield with this manual ReBAR tweak
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The secret is enabling Resizable BAR yourself.

Microsoft Paint is getting updated with one of Photoshop's most commonly used tools
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Background removal is coming to MS Paint, and it's free!

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.
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