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I've been using a K70 RGB with Brown switches for about a year now and I absolutely love it. To me, brown is the perfect balance between clicky for typing and smooth for gaming. It really is a good idea to try some out in a store if you can first though (my local Best Buy had a bunch), because everyone has different preferences. If you want to throw a bit of money away, Massdrop often has Cherry "sampler" kits which has one of each type of switch (this type of thing, or a slightly smaller one on Amazon) which are great for getting a feel of all of them. If you're going to spend all of the money on a mechanical keyboard, it's a good idea to make sure you like the feel of the switches before you make the purchase.

I have an amazing Corsair K70 RGB for my keyboard, but I've been rocking the same shitty standard Dell mouse since 2008. DPI? No idea. Buttons? It definitely has two of them. It'd be nice to have something more useful for gaming and that didn't cramp my hand after extended periods of use.

I have a R9 270 that's starting to really show its age with newer titles. It was the lower end of midrange when I got it a few years back, and I could really use the upgrade.

My rig is at a point now where I'm comfortable with pretty much everything except the keyboard and the storage. My only storage is a 2 TB hard drive, and my keyboard is a membrane, rubber dome thing by Rosewill. Within the next few months I'm definitely going to be getting an SSD for the OS and possibly a couple Steam games, and I'm going to get a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Browns because I tried those out the other day and fell in love. My question: which one should I get first, and which one should wait a month or two?

You actually don't need any extra software with Windows. This guide is a good overview of the process, but it's pretty simple.

Yes. This would also be the case if you cloned your SSD to another SSD or a (large) flash drive. The only real difference is that with the clone, you'd be able to plug it in, choose it as your boot media, and get going again instantly. Meanwhile, with an image, you have to restore the image to a drive. Another important note is that in order to clone, your destination needs to be as large as or larger than your source--you couldn't clone a drive with 100 GB of data on it to a 64 GB flash drive. You might be able to put an image on the flash drive though, depending on how well it's compressed.

Yes. In order to restore from an image, you either need to be inside Windows or you need to have a Windows install/recovery disk. An install or recovery disk will allow you to directly restore the image without having to install a fresh copy of Windows first.

This article explains the differences between cloning and imaging pretty well. Basically, you create an image if you want to be able to restore from that image later on. You clone if you want an actual exact copy (or clone) of the drive to be created. Cloning a bootable drive will create another, identical bootable drive while imaging it just copies some/most/all of the files in a compressed format that isn't bootable, but you can later restore from.

It won't make changing them any faster, but you should probably consider using a password manager if you aren't already. Then you can make all of your passwords for every site a completely different long string of random numbers and letters that no one will ever be able to guess, and you only ever need to remember your master password (and also knowing your email password is generally a good idea).

Firstly: I just found out about this site and the channel a couple of days ago and I'm angry at myself for living in the dark for so long. I've been binge-watching videos and you guys have already potentially altered some future purchasing choices for me, so thanks! As for the mouse itself, despite upgrading my rig significantly in the past year, I'm still using a crappy Dell mouse that came with my old computer because I have it and it's... technically functional. But an upgrade is definitely in order.