This was my first computer. I purchased it from Dixons about a year and a half ago it cost me £1200 I also took out a 5 year cover plan @ £395 but soon saw the error of my ways and canceled it after 7 days (got my money back two months ago but that’s a different story).
The computer specs are - P4 2.2 GHz -Gforce fx 440 64meg - 256 ddr333 ram - generic DVD rom - generic cd writer - 2 channel sis sound - SIS mother board - 56k modem -PSU with 12v output for speakers -win xp home and various other software.
It also came with a 17" crt flat monitor
A Pb 1200 scanner
An Epsom c42 printer
And a Samsung digital camera.
Not bad I thought until about six months ago when I became a little more interested in the inner workings of my pc through installing broadband and a new 256mb NVIDIA FX5600 card.
It was then I decided to build a computer for my son which brought me to the Hexus Forum; well as you can see from my specs below I got a little carried away and ended up building one for myself.
I have now upgraded the Packard Bell with a new ASUS P4S 800 Motherboard because the old Motherboard had only 4 AGP slots but now find Windows XP Home has become deregistered and am unable to re-register the software as it was bought ‘pre installed’ on a partition and because I don’t have a cover plan with Dixon’s I’m finding it very hard to obtain a product key.
I would just like to say with a little reading and help from knowledgeable members of Hexus it is surprisingly easy to build your own computer and get exactly what you want for less money.
Thus cutting out sharks like Dixons and such like