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Yeah, I understand it would be the best IF silence was the only one of my required bullet points. I'm not ready to give up a membrane board just for the silence factor. I have switch tester board coming in soon, will see if mx reds have a significant impact. If it doesn't... Then I might indeed bite the bullet and settle for a membrane. Until then I still have to try switches out, I've heard of a trick to keep a towel, or something similar and soft under the board.. Will see.

I understand that MX Reds should be best switches in my situation, but the main point is whether the board itself affects the loudness on bottoming out, which is why the question of re-soldering vs brand new with silent as selling point.

Backstory - I bought a relatively cheap entry level mechanical keyboard - non-RGB Motospeed K81 a long time ago, been using it for years. Now that I live with my GF, and since we have both of our setups in the same room, I need to do something about the loudness of that keyboard. I just yesterday tried adding O rings to the board, but as it turns out - they didn't do much, since the keys themselves are clicky, and bottoming out still sounds loud to me. I even added 2x O rings to each switch... I'm considering 2 options - buying a brand new keyboard with silent switches that has "silence" as its selling point, not sure which one would that be though. Or buying silent replacement switches and re-solder them to my existing board (soldering is not an issue). However a question arises, if that is a good approach at all, since I didn't notice much of a difference when bottoming out with O rings on. Can you guys give advice on what to do in this situation? Maybe your own experiences on trying to make your board a bit more silent?

Hello, my gf is having issues with her laptop, all signs show towards hard-drive issues, so we've decided to upgrade that. I've seen people upgrading laptops from HDD's to SSD's, I wanted to make sure I don't make any mistakes when doing it. Now, the files will be backed up, there should be a clean re-install made anyway, so I have 2 questions: 1) How to properly make sure that Windows licence is transferred from the old installation to new one, if I'm doing a completely clean install? 2) The laptop is this one: Asus X555L, 15.6" HD, i7 5500U 3.0Ghz CPU, 1Tb HDD, 6Gb RAM, Radeon R5 M230 2Gb Can I just buy a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD MZ-75E500B, and use it, or is there any adapter/cable/tray necessary for proper installation?

Hello, I currently have R9 270x, and I am in need of an upgrade. I'm not buying anything right now, but researching what would be better options. I'm going to use my current 1080p 144Hz monitor for cs:go, and eventually will buy a 1440p 60Hz monitor for less fps demanding games/photo stuff. We all know the current pricing on GPU's, so first question would be how long to wait for, while I don't have a pressing need for a GPU right now. And which card to buy at all? I'm looking at Vega 56 at the moment, since I am looking at FreeSync monitors, due to my existing one being FreeSync and my 1440p monitor is going to be FreeSync as well. Obviously, low budget is important, but I would rather the card would last a couple years, so I suppose a slight overkill would be alright? I'd rather have more educated opinions on this.

Right, but cs:go isn't main focus, it's just the only game where 144Hz matters. I play other games as well, like Fallout4/Civilization, etc. Would I really benefit so much from cpu upgrade not gpu? Since looking at prices I can honestly afford just one for now. And I suppose then 480 will be better than double 270x's in crossfire?

Hey all, I bought this pc used a long time ago, and I'm in need of upgrades, so I hope you guys can help me out here a bit. I need some help with what components exactly I need for everything to be compatible properly. I will mostly be running a 1080p 144Hz monitor, maybe an upgrade to another 1080p later on for multi-tasking when not gaming. Current build: CPU - i5-3350P GPU - Gigabyte R9 270x 2GB (Windforce) RAM - 8GB Case - probably one you wouldn't take for free, I'll throw it out when get a new one. PSU - fully modular 850W beQuiet! MoBo - I honestly couldn't find any info to find the proper model, but it's definitely a low-end one, so an upgrade is needed here. Monitor - AOC 2460G5 (144Hz) First of all, I'd need to get a cheap case, because looks really don't matter to me, so far looking at two (Cooler Master K 280) or (Zalman Chasis Z1 NEO) as they have pretty much same price of 40 euros and decent cooling capabilities, but if you have any other suggestions, I'm open for those. Second, I need a GPU upgrade (to push those fps up to cover 144+ in cs:go, and 60+ in other games), however I want to push all of the juices out of current build that I possibly can, so crossfire might be the best option (I think). I just need to know how flexible are my options, what I need to know to be 110% sure that there will be no compatibility issues. Third, MoBo upgrade. This is the component I know pretty much nothing about, and mostly need help. It pretty much just needs to be compatible with current CPU (which I probably don't need to upgrade), compatible with gpu crossfire and not much else that I can think of right now, but I don't want to spend a lot on it, since I'm after a GPU as well. Everything can be considered with *budget* tag on it, Case is maximum of 50 euros, I'll try to find a used GPU locally (just need to know what models to look for), and I don't really know the ranges of motherboards, so it would be nice to have some value budget ATX options. P.S. I will be adding SSD at some point as well, but I'm in the dark about those too, so a M.2 slot could be nice.

I personally want an SSD pretty much because I have never owned one. My first computer was extremely crappy tower that we got for free from some office, since they were throwing them out. Imagine what kind of a pc can it be, if an office throws it out. After that there was a slight upgrade to the existing tower. And I had to live with that for years. When I went to college, that's when I finally got something decent (when comparing to that tower), a cheap-ish laptop. Now I have something good, something that can actually run games, though I only have a single HDD. Which is why I want to finally experience the super fast boot for windows and loading for games. The reason why everyone should have an SSD is because there is no reason why one shouldn't be able to at least put his OS on an SSD and not waste precious time on waiting that could be spent otherwise. Thank you.