Getting a new mouse and a keyboard

I would suggest going for Logitech and not Razor. Everyone I know with a Razor mouse has had theirs fall apart. They're simply not worth the price. I myself have owned a Logitech G300 for several years now, and one of my friends had his MX Revolution last for literally a decade.

 

Seconding Logitech, their mice are unkillable. Been using two M90s here for about 7-8 years, and they still won't die.

 

If you can get the G400s I can happily recommend it, best mouse I've ever used.

It costs around $40 afaik

 

You can disable the LEDs, although to do so requires the Logitech gaming software.

I've been using a G502 since the beginning of this year and have been nothing but pleased with it. I bought it partly for the unlockable scroll wheel, there's nothing quite so satisfying as spinning the wheel at high speed. You can set the DPI to ludicrously high levels as well, which I guess future-proofs it to a certain extent if nothing else.

As for keyboard, a few months ago I picked up a Corsair Vengeance K70 with red switches, and this thing is totally boss. I love Corsair's design aesthetic. It looks slick as fuck and is easy to clean below the keycaps, as they're not recessed into the casing like most keyboards. Got red LEDs too, but that's not what I bought it for - I get the appeal of LED key switches but it's just not my thing.

 

Logitech mice totally do die, mind you. I tend to find it's either the mouse wheel that goes (as happened to an old trackball mouse I used to love), or the left mouse button (as has happened to two of my replacement mice, including a G500 that I rather liked).

That said, I still keep coming back to them. Rocking a G502 right now. It looks like the most unergonomic thing ever, with all those angles jutting out everywhere, but it's actually pretty good.

 

I third the quality of a Logitech mouse. My last wired USB mouse from them had an awful resolution, the click-wheel button stopped working right in less than a year, and the case would get caked in grease from my hands easily. One time when I took it apart to remove said grease, the click-wheel's spring popped off while it was running, and made enough contact with some of the the PCB's pins to fry it. Then, I bought an HP mouse at the same price with a better resolution, and a much better case, that's still ticking along just fine, WHAT, THE, F-

Although I would bet it was a case of, "You get what you pay for.", because that mouse was $15, and it felt like it too. I've had more expensive wireless mice from them in the past, and there was simply no killing them, ever. I used to have a wireless Logitech mouse that had a trackball instead of a laser, and wow was that thing awesome, (It'd take a whole month before I would need to recharge its triple-A batteries.) I wish I still had it, that thing took a real beating between me making pixel art for six hours at a time, and marathoning first-person shooters.

Also, portable wireless Microsoft mice are pretty nice as well. The only thing wrong with the one I have was a relative dumped it on me for having a twitchy click-wheel, (Occasionally, scrolling down scrolls up a bit.) but only web browsers seem to hate it. Switching weapons with it in a shooter like Quake III is fine and dandy, so I see no need to take it apart and fix it. More or less a slightly faulty unit, than wear and tear, because they bought a replacement that's working right.

 

I would just like to push that Logitech have amazing customer service, and will replace any of your devices within it's first year and usually extend past that out of sheer kindness.

I had a G600 at one point, and I found it extremely awkward to use, so when it broke I asked them if I could swap it for a g400s and they were perfectly fine with it.