Systemax Ascent 7370

When my old PC finally gave up, I went to the Simply Computers website to check on prices (www.simply.co.uk). I'd been using Simply for a number of upgrades on previous PC's and had even built my previous PC using parts supplied by them. Their expertise had been well proven in the past. Building a PC from scratch is not really an option now, since system prices are so cheap now. I decided to check some of the computer superstores as well, but found that they were offering a lot of old stock at rather expensive prices. Systemax was, to me, the obvious route , since they allowed me to specify ... more

I bought my computer from Simply 3 months ago. The reason I bought from Simply is because they have a good reputation and are owned by Symantec, who develop Norton Products. It's an AMD Athlon 750 machine, with a Soundblaster 1024 Liveplayer Sound Card, and a Matrox G400 Graphics Card. This is my 3rd computer and it's the best I've owned, it's powerful and very fast. Since upgrading to windows ME, i've not had a single crash or blue screen of death. I recommend an AMD Athlon based machine over a Pentium 3 Based machine anyday, as I find the AMD Athlon to be the faster processor. I've had no ... more

I got my Systemax 500mhz 64SDRAM machine in June 2000. By early August I started having some problems that neither Simply Tech support nor their engineers could explain. I had to return my PC. After 10 days I got it back with a note saying that there was nothing wrong with it and that it had undergone vigorous checks. However, as soon as I started working, the same problems started occuring. Yes, you guessed it, I sent it back again. Now, it took them two weeks to figure out that there was nothing wrong with it, and sent it back to me. Third time, four months later and probably 50 complains ... more