No, its a Ultrasharp Dell 1504fp. Dell sold these for $449 on their website, it has vga & dvi connectors. It was of course, a one time special. You can find them on ebay.com sometimes.
Bios is a Dell with a date of Sept 2002 ( IBought in Oct), so they make their own bioses to take advantage of the latest features. Im not concerned about them making their own because it comes with a full guarantee & because I bought it was a Visa card, visa gives me two years guarantee free…
I wish I knew if the cdrom with XP on it that they give us is a full XP Home cd
Can you tell me where you find it for this price? I haven’t looked around a lot but I have looked some and haven’t found anyone that can consistently (without a limited time rebate or something) sell me software for much less than retail unless I’m buying multiple seats…
If you have a store or are a professional, MS often sells this software for $39.95 plus shipping at their website with some trinkets. Sometimes its $59. It’s a promotional idea, NOT for reselling & one per customer.
I build 'em because I like to build 'em, but there is still a possible benefit to be had from overclocking and selecting a viable upgrade path.
The Sanford Box did me well for almost five years now, but it’s finally obsolete. Its peripherals, monitor, CD-ROM, and hard drive will be donated to its successor, Lamont.
Right now I can buy a Pentium 4 2.2A and a watercooling setup for far less than the $699 I would shell out for a P4 3.06. All I need is a motherboard, a chip and its cooling, a new case, lots of high-quality RAM, and a wisely chosen video card, which should total around $1200, tops. With aggressive overclocking and a little luck I may well be able to exceed the performance of the fastest available stock computer, with room to upgrade as things change.
The Sanford Box, which has cost me a total of about $1200 over the past four-plus years, will be cobbled into a quiet, stable (but still fairly fast at 892 MHz) system for my parents using spare parts I have lying about. They’ll have to shell out about $200 for a monitor and anything else I can’t supply myself.
All told, I’ll be spending $2400 for probably six or more years of quality computing on two computers, but at the end of Lamont’s front-line career I’ll still be able to use parts of it to defray the cost of the next system. Overall, I think it’s been a pretty decent investment as well as a satisfying hobby.
