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New board CPU and RAM
Have an Ivy Bridge running on an Asus P8Z77-V board with an i5 3570K and 16GB of 2133Mhz RAM.
Now I think the BIOS is up the Swanee because for a very long time now I have not been able to set the boot options and leave them because the BIOS has a mind of it's own and changes back the settings after each power down.
It has other oddities too like having my printer listed as boot device and it is hooked up via USB and wifi and to get out o that I have to use the Optimised defaults to get the hard drive back as a choice it also lists a small SD card I sometimes use and even when it is not in the machine so all in all I reckon the BIOS chip is southbound.
Now my only option I think is to replace the board and keep as much hardware as I can from this build but getting stuff for use with a 1155 socket and DDR3 RAM is just not going to happen I am thinking.
So ideas please I am just a very average user nothing fancy like games and photoshopping I just want something that is going to be quick and not cost a great deal of money.
I am a fan of Intel and would like to have an i7 CPU if possible and I am also a fan of Asus gear even though this board is letting me down.
I am asking because I have no idea where chipsets are up to now or what boards support in the way of hardware. As I said I would like to be able to use my existing hardware but if not then I shall have to go for the new gear and salvage what I do have like my liquid cooler and new GPU.
I have to mention I am not looking at going super cheap either but still stay within a reasonably tight budget.
Last edited by ICIT2LOL; 24 Feb 2018 at 01:03.