Aldi PC on sale 4th Feb

Eemia

3GB DDR3 SDRAM
Powerful graphics
1000GB hard disk
CD/DVD Burner
Intel core i3-530 Processor
Windows 7 Home premium
Multi card read
and much more...

449.99

Might be of use to those that missed the boat on the other PC

madmoe

Wonder does it have any USB 3.0 ports and 802.11 n?? U have a flyer\lnk?

mayordenis

Powerful Graphics eh? if so then it sounds good to me

54kroc

mayordenis wrote: »

Powerful Graphics eh? if so then it sounds good to me

I think it has Integrated Intel GMA HD graphics

iknorr

cork45 wrote: »

I think it has Integrated Intel GMA HD graphics

ayr, powerful stuff, did u know they had the internet on computers too?

Kinetic^

"Powerful graphics" - :pac:

Any idea what the motherboard is?

IrishTonyO

Eemia wrote: »

3GB DDR3 SDRAM
Powerful graphics
1000GB hard disk
CD/DVD Burner
Intel core i3-530 Processor
Windows 7 Home premium
Multi card read
and much more...

449.99

Might be of use to those that missed the boat on the other PC

where you see this? Can't find it on their website

deiseindublin

Anybody know if this has a wireless card?

m4rkiz

deiseindublin wrote: »

Anybody know if this has a wireless card?

probably not, but wireless usb adapter cost €10-15, not a deal breaker if you want to spend €450

Eemia

Its not on their website i have a flyer here i got in the RTE guide.

Will type out EXACTLY whats on it.

Powerful intel core i3-530 processor
(2.93 GHz, 4MB Intel Smart cache, Intel Hyper-Threading-Technology)

Powerful NVIDIA Geforce G210 DirectX 10 graphics card
With 512MB graphic memory and D-Sub VGA, DVI-I and HDMI interface (HDCP support)

Massive 3GB DDR3 SDRAM

Large 1TG (1000GB) S-ATA hard disk

Multiformat DVD/CD burner

High speed Wireless Lan 802.11 n-Standard
With up to 300Mbit/s. 802.11 b/g compatible0

Network controller Gigabit Lan (10/100/1000 Mbit/s

IEEE1394 Firewire on board

eSata connection

8 channel high defination audio

Multi card reader

PS/2 keyboard and optical USB mouse


They also have a 20" TFT monitor for 99.99 on 4th Feb also

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> thanks is over there :eek:

Eemia

BTW anything i had said on first post is actually worded like that on the flyer in front of me, i did not make it up :pac:

Kinetic^

I love the use of "Massive" & "Powerful" in the advertisement, marketing guru who ever came up with that.

dxhound2003

Is the "massive" 3GB of Ram an issue? The other one had 4 and I thought 4 was sort of standard now.

muppetkiller

With Windows 7 , 3 gig is plenty but get more anyway if you're into you're gaming.

gsp119

can i ask a silly question - if I coonect to plasma via the hdmi port - will that carry audio as well?

cheers

Stokolan

It should be bale to. On my laptop I can send audio out via the HDMI to my TV if needed and its using vista. I had windows 7 on it and it was the same.

Tea_Bag

Stokolan wrote: »

It should be bale to. On my laptop I can send audio out via the HDMI to my TV if needed and its using vista. I had windows 7 on it and it was the same.

that depends entirely on the graphics card and not the OS.


also, im not sure i3 is going to be any good for gaming.
that said, expect to buy a 2gb ram chip and not 1gb, if you plan to upgrade to 4gb's for gaming, because its going to be in a 1x1024mb + 1x2048mb array, and the i3 is dual channel.



as with the last aldi pc, if you're looking to do some gaming, you'll need to buy a new graphics card (possibly a new PSU too), because the G210 is going to be useless.

Effluo

muppetkiller wrote: »

With Windows 7 , 3 gig is plenty but get more anyway if you're into you're gaming.

Pish.
Windows 7 is less ram hungry than Vista and only uses around 1gig.

3gigs would be plenty for gaming, on my system i don't think it's ever gone over 2.5gigs!
Also the i3 seems to work great in games from any of the benchmarks i've seen.

Altogether this is an awesome deal

The point needs to be stressed however that the gpu on this thing will play hd content fine, but this will not play any graphic intensive games!

If you're looking for a system to play pc games, then you'll need to buy a graphics card for this

madmoe

Are there any USB 3.0 ports on it I wonder?

billyhead

Folks,


What time would you need to start queuing outside the shop to get this on Thursday week?

Pdfile

Tea_Bag wrote: »

that depends entirely on the graphics card and not the OS.


also, im not sure i3 is going to be any good for gaming.
that said, expect to buy a 2gb ram chip and not 1gb, if you plan to upgrade to 4gb's for gaming, because its going to be in a 1x1024mb + 1x2048mb array, and the i3 is dual channel.



as with the last aldi pc, if you're looking to do some gaming, you'll need to buy a new graphics card (possibly a new PSU too), because the G210 is going to be useless.

the i3 uses H/T too which seems cool when utilized... is their any Competitive offers online to beat the Brick and motor shops ?

Do-more

billyhead wrote: »

Folks,


What time would you need to start queuing outside the shop to get this on Thursday week?

You should be pretty safe if you start now!

Doors open at 9am, it really depends on whether they have 2 of these per store or 20.

If you really want it and don't want to take any chances I say around 7.30am.

iamskippy

Eemia wrote: »

They also have a 20" TFT monitor for 99.99 on 4th Feb also

any info on the monitor? Good buy with the PC?

Slick50

Stokolan wrote: »

It should be bale to. On my laptop I can send audio out via the HDMI to my TV if needed and its using vista. I had windows 7 on it and it was the same.

I thought the beauty of HDMI is that it carries hd audio and visual. Does this unit have the three year warranty as standard? Like the previous one.

Keano

madmoe wrote: »

Wonder does it have any USB 3.0 ports and 802.11 n?? U have a flyer\lnk?

You're not asking for much

Rsaeire

Keano A Legend wrote: »

You're not asking for much

Next he'll be asking for Sata 6.0 Gbps support, 3D glasses and a copy of Avatar in 3D as well. :P

madmoe, I doubt it will have USB 3.0 support, but if it does come with Wi-Fi, it wouldn't be too much to ask for if it came with 802.11n support too. It seems to be another great computer deal for Aldi; let's hope they have at least a dozen or so machines in most stores.

Tweaky

http://www.aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/2827_11844.htm

madmoe

Rsaeire wrote: »

Next he'll be asking for Sata 6.0 Gbps support, 3D glasses and a copy of Avatar in 3D as well. :P

madmoe, I doubt it will have USB 3.0 support, but if it does come with Wi-Fi, it wouldn't be too much to ask for if it came with 802.11n support too. It seems to be another great computer deal for Aldi; let's hope they have at least a dozen or so machines in most stores.

Exactly lads. The 802.11 N support would make up for no USB 3.0 but it would be nice to have at least one USB 3.0 in there....

RobertFoster

Rsaeire wrote: »

let's hope they have at least a dozen or so machines in most stores.

Good luck with that... Maybe they learned from the last PC deal that 2-4 per store pissed people off. Only time will tell though.

jimogr

What is the build quality like on these MEDIONs?

In general how noisy are they?

How much of a deal is this?

j4vier

i doubt they learned anything from the previous pc sale..actually i think they did that on purpose..
my friend has a 1y old medion pc, works quite well and in terms of noise its very quiet

iamskippy

jimogr wrote: »

What is the build quality like on these MEDIONs?

In general how noisy are they?

How much of a deal is this?

+1 anyone know about noise?

Jackeen63

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/2827_12858.htm

iamskippy

See they also give recovery dvd's unlike other manufacturers.

There is also a windows dvd. Does that mean you could install windows alone rather than all the programs that are preinstalled

kmick

You can carry sound via hdmi but you have to set it specifically via the sounds area in the Control Panel. The spec would suggest that does not have a hdmi out though...

The medion stuff is ok as its comes with a three year warranty - which realistically is what these things last if you run them day and night. The dell standard desktop is rumoured to have a life of 12 hours a day x 6 years or 24 hours a day x 3 years.

Saying that I bought a median 42 inch plasma from aldi back in the day and it died 6 months out of warranty. The cost to fix it was €500 exactly the same as a 1080p Samsung 32inch I had my eye on so I bought that instead.

Put it this way aldi have an external 500gb drive at the moment and I would not be relying on it to store the pictures of the kids for any length of time without some other form of backup.

iamskippy

Will Windows mail work with windows 7? I do not like windows livemail and want to uninstall it and have win mail or even outlook

RoyalMarine

Just a warning about buying in aldi.

They tend to have very limited stock in some stores, and a lot of people queue hoping to get one.
Then they open the door, and say anyone who has a ticket can buy one, other wise, sorry.

I suggest you contact your local aldi store if you intend to buy one and ask how many they are getting, how they will be sold, and if they are running a ticket/hold for customers.

ch750536

kmick wrote: »

...
Saying that I bought a median 42 inch plasma from aldi back in the day and it died 6 months out of warranty. The cost to fix it was €500 exactly the same as a 1080p Samsung 32inch I had my eye on so I bought that instead.
...

You know you are covered for up to 6 years in Irish law right?

bazwaldo

ch750536 wrote: »

You know you are covered for up to 6 years in Irish law right?

Can you provide more details?

jd83

It’s just going to be the same as last pc they will get maybe 20. Ten of those will go to staff and staff friends. Then there will be ten left if you’re lucky. Advertising an item and plastering in every newspaper going. Then have ten or sometimes even less in stock is ridiculous and should be considered as false advertising.

HappyHarry

iamskippy wrote: »

Will Windows mail work with windows 7? I do not like windows livemail and want to uninstall it and have win mail or even outlook

I doubt it, but just use Thunderbird 3

Placebo

i bought one few years back
generally quite noisey

but i like the humming sound
puts me to sleep

Jonny7

Tea_Bag wrote: »

that depends entirely on the graphics card and not the OS.


also, im not sure i3 is going to be any good for gaming.
that said, expect to buy a 2gb ram chip and not 1gb, if you plan to upgrade to 4gb's for gaming, because its going to be in a 1x1024mb + 1x2048mb array, and the i3 is dual channel.



as with the last aldi pc, if you're looking to do some gaming, you'll need to buy a new graphics card (possibly a new PSU too), because the G210 is going to be useless.

The i3 has been reviewed and is very good for gaming.

3 gigs of ram is still more than enough for games.

There are new ATI cards, 5670 and 5750 which have a very low power draw compared to other similarly performing cards, therefore literally no need for a new power supply unit (assuming that the medion has a 300 watt PSU)

Even the 5770 will run on a 300 watt PSU, although its not recommended.

What this means is that you can buy this PC, then spend 80 to 150 euros on a graphics card and be able to play most games very well.

Disclaimer: if you are a super nerd enthusiast who needs to run GTA4 or Crysis on ultra high res with super high frames then .. not this PC.

Effluo

Yeah just to add to all those people going on about sound over hdmi.

Unfortunately only very few Nvidia cards support Sound over hdmi and pretty much every AMD card does.

So, I'm 90% sure this pc will not support sound over hdmi and you'd be looking to install an AMD card to do this, something like a 4350 would suffice for around€25.

projectgtr

madmoe wrote: »

Exactly lads. The 802.11 N support would make up for no USB 3.0 but it would be nice to have at least one USB 3.0 in there....

From what ive learned nothing is fully ultilizing the speeds of USB2 so why would you want USB3??

Effluo

projectgtr wrote: »

From what ive learned nothing is fully ultilizing the speeds of USB2 so why would you want USB3??

Nothing is fully utilising the speed of sata 2, not usb 2.

HappyHarry

projectgtr wrote: »

From what ive learned nothing is fully ultilizing the speeds of USB2 so why would you want USB3??

You might want to do a bit more learning.

Effluo

HappyHarry wrote: »

You might want to do a bit more learning.

Well it's hard to keep up with everthing
http://www.pcworld.com/article/186566/usb_30_finally_arrives.html

Nice article here though.

Should Make sure everyone knows here though that this is not usb 3,

The Aldi pc is usb 2.

Not that big of a deal IMO unless of course you'll be doing a lot of data transfers on new high speed drives

iamskippy

Effluo wrote: »

Yeah just to add to all those people going on about sound over hdmi.

Unfortunately only very few Nvidia cards support Sound over hdmi and pretty much every AMD card does.

So, I'm 90% sure this pc will not support sound over hdmi and you'd be looking to install an AMD card to do this, something like a 4350 would suffice for around€25.

Does that mean there would not be sound on the monitor or does that only apply in games? I am hoping to get the aldi monitor too. Will I have sound on it?

Effluo

iamskippy wrote: »

Does that mean there would not be sound on the monitor or does that only apply in games? I am hoping to get the aldi monitor too. Will I have sound on it?

Well there are speakers on the monitor, however it says nothing about a hdmi connection.

Either way it will most probably have an analogue sound in connection with bundled vga cable and most likely a cable to connect the sound too, so it's probable that you'll be able to play sound through the monitor using an extra cable(which will prob be bundled with the monitor).
Although I can assure you it will not be over hdmi.

-Corkie-

It has all that here you are:

• Powerful Intel® Core® i3-530 processor (2.93 GHz, 4 MB Intel® Smart cache, Intel® Hyper-Threading-Technology)
• Powerful NVIDIA® GeForce® G210 DirectX® 10 graphics card with 512 MB graphic memory and D-Sub VGA, DVI-I and HDMI interface (HDCP support)
• Massive 3 GB DDR3 SDRAM
• Large 1 TB (1000 GB) S-ATA hard disk for more than 200,000 music title or photos1.
• Multiformat DVD/CD burner2 supports all the usual DVD/CD standards, incl. dual layer DVD-R and DVD+R
• High speed Wireless LAN 802.11 n-Standard with up to 300 Mbit/s. 802.11 b/g compatible3.
• Network Controller Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000 Mbit/s.)
• IEEE1394 FireWire on board
• eSATA connection for connecting external SATA devices
• 8 channel high definition audio4
• Multi Card Reader reads and writes all current flash memory cards5
• PS/2 keyboard and optical USB mouse
• Connections:
  Front: Multi Card Reader, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x Microphone, 1 x Headphone, 1 x eSATA
  Rear: 2 x PS/2, 6 x USB 2.0, 1 x FireWire, 1 x LAN (RJ-45), 1 x Front line out, 1 x Rear line out, 1 x Subwoofer/Centre out 1 x Surround out, 1 x Line in, 1 x SPDIF optical out
• Comprehensive software package with original Windows® 7 Home Premium (OEM versions)
  and much more…