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 new Ryzen 5 7500F could be the best budget AM5 gaming chip yet
By Chris Szewczyk published
News An affordable 6-core CPU without integrated graphics.
Nvidia's RTX 40-series cards haven't yet gained traction with gamers on Steam
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Windows 10 isn't going anywhere either.
The US-China tech war is really heating up
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Beijing imposes export restrictions on two metals critical for high tech manufacturing.
Hold on, weren't Intel's desktop Meteor Lake-S chips cancelled? Maybe not
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Support comes to Linux.
The US wants to restrict China's access to AI chips even more, and Nvidia could lose out as a result
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Chips that are anything but cheap.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 review: a good graphics card with the wrong name
By Chris Szewczyk published
4050 Super? A good graphics card with the wrong name.
John Goodenough, the man most responsible for developing the batteries powering our mobile lives, dies aged 100
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The world's oldest Nobel Prize winner.
AI is being used to translate 5,000 year-old cuneiform tablets
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Bringing dead languages back to life.
Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti OC review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Smart Why spend more on a bigger and more expensive 4060 Ti?
If you own an Asus router, you should update the firmware to protect against critical vulnerabilities right now
By Chris Szewczyk published
News A public service announcement.
Nvidia's ultra expensive H100 Hopper GPU gets tested in games
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Well, it's good at compute.
Intel continues its spending spree with more major fab investments
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Billions for expansions in Germany and Israel.
ASRock RX 7800 XT graphics cards with 16GB of memory are really real
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The model names have been filed with the EEC.
Intel's Raptor Lake refresh CPUs rumored to launch in October
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Presumably with the 14th Gen moniker.
Next generation quantum computing takes a step forward thanks to Intel's new chip
By Chris Szewczyk published
News The 12-qubit chips will help to advance quantum computing research efforts.
Nvidia brings the RTX 4060 launch date forward to June 29
By Chris Szewczyk last updated
News Launching this month!
While we wait for AMD's conspicuously absent RX 7800 XT, here's a simulated one
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Where is the real deal?
Gigabyte releases an RTX 4090 with a smart power connector placement
By Chris Szewczyk published
News It just makes so much sense.
PCIe 7.0 remains on track for a 2025 release
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Don't hold your breath, though. Actual devices are unlikely to release before 2027 at the earliest.
Thermaltake CTE C750 Air review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Flexible A big case with big flexibility.
Computex is a different beast to E3 and it's back for real in 2023!
By Chris Szewczyk published
Connections Some trade shows are still relevant.
AMD Radeon RX 7600 review
By Chris Szewczyk published
Adequate AMD's RX 7600 does just enough to shake up the entry level gaming GPU market.
Intel proposes x86S, a 64-bit CPU microarchitecture that does away with legacy 16-bit and 32-bit support
By Chris Szewczyk published
News Current CPUs have some features dating back over 40 years.