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The drivers in a speaker are not connected to the back. Your speakers seem to be powered by a amp mounted on the back of the speaker and the heatsink can get hot. Most decent powered speaker have built in protection for heat and dc. The only thing you can do is provide more ventilation for the...

You'll save some problems by have the ssd you want Windows installed on as the only storage drive plugged into the mobo. Power up the computer and after post it will ask for boot device. Pop in the disc into the drive and it will tell you what to do and when to enter the product code. Having a...

You have very decent internet speeds. The servers of the websites effect the download speeds a lot. Steam has some of the fastest servers on the internet.

Your psu has three + 12 volt rails. Each is limited to 18A. The output of all the rails are combine before the output giving 480W at 12V. If the parts in the psu are in good shape the is enough wattage to power your system. When you replace the psu move up to a 600 to 650W one for a little more...

The 970 is an excellent gpu. The Corsair psu was a excellent psu in it's day, but the parts do age and it can become unreliable. With the black Friday sale you can pick up a very good new psu for $50 to 70.

SSDs use very little power. There are no moving parts.

Newegg.com has a Vision Tek cloning kit for $20.19 with free shipping.

Corsair and Monster Cable both sell cloning kits that have a sata power/data to usb adapters and have cdrom software for $25 to $30.

It's well worth spending another $20 or so for a 970 mobo. They have more features and will allow you to OC in the future.

The Silverstone is a good quality psu and is enough for your use.

In order to use the FX8150 cpu you'll need to update the mobo bios and you need to have the old cpu working on the mobo to update the bios.

What makes the most sense is to buy a Z97 mobo rather than the B85. A decent Z97 mobo is only $40 to 60 more.

That's so people won't just clone their HD and never buy another Windows OS.

There's no real specific issues with the B85 board. As you know it's not very good for OC and when you move up to a Z97 mobo you may have to reinstall windows.