New Special Offer On Aldi

Snowball

Have a look on this, friend is thinking of buying this.
What do you think?
Specifically, whats the verdict on the quality of the hardware? and is it cheap or should one just go for something simular from some place like Komplett??


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Computer Base Station

This Titanium MD 8800 Designer PC with high-gloss front design is the ultimate high performance PC, TV, audio, video, games, office and internet PC.

THE LATEST INTEL® DUAL CORE PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE

* Intel® Pentium® Duel Core Processor 830
* Featuring the latest PC Processor Technology: Dual Core. The new Intel® Pentium® D processor features 2 processing cores enabling your PC to think as fast as you can multitask
* 3.0GHz, 2 x 1MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB
* Future-proof technology for optimal performance
* Extremely low noise due to new BTX form factor with optimised air stream, heat pipe cooler and quiet fan

1024MB MEMORY

* DDR2-533MHz SDRAM
* 64 bit dual channel memory (1 bank free for upgrading)

250GB HARD DISK

* 8MB cache S-ATA 150 interface
* Super fast 7,200rpm

3 x DUAL TV-TUNERS READY

* Watch a TV channel at the same time as recording another TV channel
* 2 x DVB-S digital satellite reception (only functions with the appropriate aerial, not supplied)
* 2 x DVB-T The digital everywhere TV (requires a DVB-T digital service in your area)
* 2 x analogue TV/cable TV (stereo TV reception via the normal house and room antenna, or the existing cable connection)

NVIDIA® G-FORCETM 6700XL HIGH-END DVI/VGA GRAPHICS CARD

* TV Out connection via: SCART, S-Video, Composite or Component (YUV; YPrPb) High Definition
* Super fast GDDR3 memory at 1100MHz
* nVidia® G-ForceTM 6700XL graphics processor with 525MHz
* 128MB PCI Express x16 bus concept

16 x DUAL LAYER, MULTI-STANDARD DVD/CD BURNER

16 x DVD-ROM

WLAN 54Mbit/s

* IEEE 802.11g 802.11b compatible
* Wireless network access, the perfect solution to a cable-free network at home and in the office (assuming there is a WLAN Access Point at your location)

INTEGRATED 8-IN-1 USB 2.0 MEMORY CARD READER

* Integrated USB 2.0 Flash memory card reader, reads and writes most current flash memory cards (flash memory cards not included)

6 x USB 2.0 PORTS, 2 x FRONT, 4 x REAR

2 x FIREWIRE PORTS, 1 x FRONT, 1 x REAR

MODEM

* V.90 PCI Data Fax Modem

NETWORK CONTROLLER

* Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbit/s

8-CHANNEL INTEL® HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO

INTERNET TELEPHONY SOFTWARE 90 MINUTES FREE

MULTIFUNCTION STATUS DISPLAY

* Comprehensive and easy to read status information displayed on the front of the PC shows the date and time, current TV station or even the song title and artist of the music track being played and much more

DATA BAY

* A safe haven for your important data. An innovative solution to keep your video, audio and photo data safe and sound. Connect an external MEDION HDDrive2Go hard disk (sold separately) without all the tangled, annoying cabling. Simple, endless expansion capability

€ 1099.99

DemonOfTheFall

Does it have a monitor included for that price ?

cormie

nope, monitor is seperate. www.aldi.ie

Snowball

Sorry, forgot the links

For the PC
http://www.aldi.ie/special_buys/product_477.html

For the Specials page
http://www.aldi.ie/special_buys/index.html

masteroftherealm

Ah yet again aldi does it. Buy it and resell them for twice that.

fullerand

Got the flyer for that this morning, looks pretty good. The components mostly seem to be good brands (eg Intel proc, Seagate HDD, Sony CD/DVD etc). The RAM is generic though.

Not entirely sure about the graphics card, never heard of it. I've googled for it and the only think I've found is that it seems to be an overclocked 6600GT. Can any gamers out there pass comment on it?

Any idea of the bundled software? Kinda hard to tell from the tiny pics on their site.

Comes with a 3 year warranty. Anyone every had to deal with Aldi tech support?!

masteroftherealm

Card is an OEM only card halfway between a 6600 and 6800 has less pipes and higer clocks.

fullerand

Thanks for that. Do you reckon it'd be okay for gaming? What do you think of the on-board RAM (128MB)?

masteroftherealm wrote:

Card is an OEM only card halfway between a 6600 and 6800 has less pipes and higer clocks.

masteroftherealm

Yeah itll handle decently Id say.Nothing amazing but very playable.