whats your guys opinion on these two systems

Orgazmo

Orgazmo

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the first option is the cataclysm hellfire

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-169-OE&groupid=43&catid=1892&subcat=

and the second consists of ;


Intel i5 760 2.8GHz Socket 1156 8MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor

Gigabyte GTX 460 OC 1GB GDDR5 OC Edition Dual DVI HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card

Corsair 4GB DDR3 1600mhz Vengeance Memory Module CL9 1.5V Non-ECC Unbuffered

Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache

Asus P7H55-M LX H55 Socket 1156 DVI VGA Out 8 Channel Audio MATX Motherboard

Corsair 500W CX PSU - 5x SATA 2x PCI-Express

Casecom 6788 Black Mid Tower Case with Full Black Interior/Exterior 120mm Blue LED Front Fan - No PSU

the cataclysm is is quite expensive for my budget and im not too fussed about the overclocked cpu
 
Hi Orgazmo, welcome to OCuk forums, first thing, wrong section really. You'll get a much better response under general hardware.

My personal thoughts are if you can build it yourself then why bother paying more for someone to do it for you? Also you can find the parts that suit you exactly (for me thats getting a great looking case that is normally small).
 
thanks guys for the replies they are much appreciated

regarding the ram, should i get 4gb 1600mhz or 6gb 1333 mhz since im not sure whether the i5 processor would take full advantage of the 1600mhz
 
6GB is not really recommended since you'll be running mismatched RAM or not using Dual Channel.

I'd go for just some 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 RAM at 1333MHz to save some cash, unless you want to overclock, in which case go for some 1600MHz, but try and get some with better latencies (the CAS or x-x-x-x number displayed, typically CAS9 is 9-9-9-28 for instance) if possible.
 
Some boards support tri channel (X58's) and most other boards made around a chipset within the past 3 years support dual channel (H55, P55, X48, P45, G35....)

As you have a H55 board you can't run tri channel memory so in order to use 6GB you'd have to have either or 2x2+2GB 2+4GB sticks which isn't recommended. If you wanted more than 4GB then you'd be best getting 2x 2x2GB sets or if you really want to then 2x4GB sets.

As for the latencies you probably won't find 9-9-9-28. The lower the numbers the better (but also more expensive).

Memory you should be looking at:

I hope this helps you a little.
 
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