Recent content by nicsh

Yeah, so I have an ancient Q75 board with a BIOS from december 2012 and I was just wondering, do I need to update my BIOS in order for my upcoming i5-3470 to work?

The old hdd is there. I just installed the other to be a secondary one

So, my computer was working normally. I go away for a few hours and then boot it. It gives me the "no operating system found" message. Then after I restart it, it doesnt boot. Only a black screen, no windows logo or anything. Fans and everything are running normally. I installed a new HDD a few...

So, I have a pair of Sennheiser Hd598's. (I got them for free) They're good, they are working. But I'm kind of bored of them (yeah really stupid reason) and they look old, so I found this pair of used HyperX Cloud 2's for around 23$. I have tried them on before and I quite like them. I know...

So, I have a build with an i5-3470, 8GB of DDR3 ram and a GTX 1050. I will play some light games but sometimes games like GTA 5. Is this still a decent build?

I have the Lenovo Thinkcentre M82. The motherboard should support Ivy Bridge straight out of the box without a BIOS upgrade. Also, in the used market here where I live, the i5's are like 3x cheaper than the i7's.

I have a computer with an i3-2120, 8GB of RAM and a GTX 1050. I want to upgrade to an i5-3470. Would this boost my performance a lot, and would I be able to play modern games still with reasonable framerates?