NEW PC DEAL AT ALDI
is it good value or not?
www.aldi.co.uk

 

Face value doesnt look bad price

 

£800 with no monitor for a 3ghz dual core with only 1gb of ram and a £70 HDD


I would be expecting so much more for my cash.

I mean its only £220 for an athlon 64 4000+ with the san diego core and 1mb cache.

£70 for a good asus pci-e overclocking board 939

£200 for an Ati radeon X850 or a 6800GT for graphics

2gb of ram for £120 and a nice thermaltake soprano case for £41 with a £50 turbine modular power supply

£70 for 250gb hard drive SATA

£29 for a pioneer 110D

= £800 on the nose

 

Doesnt it have 3 TV tuners though (says 3 TV TUNER ready so it's a bit vague), DVROM as well as a burner, and wireless lan connection. That should add, oohh 50p

 

that's all very well listing prices of components but not all of us are that well versed in plugging it all together ......

 

Full spec here,

http://www.medion.co.uk/flash/md8800/

Doesn't seem an unreasonable price especially if you need Sat TV, Digital Terrestrial and Analogue TV / Radio reception. Comes with a bundle of software which would add significantly to a home build, but only if you need the software. We all need XP so that's 60 quid no one counts when building their own.

 

Why does it have 533 MHz memory ?

 

It also has a high gloss front..............sorry I'll get my coat

 

The new P4 motherboards support DDR2 with higher memory clock speeds - most seem to be running 533Mhz or above now...

 

well i bought it
i need a new pc for video editing
it looks decent enough
the 17 inch monitor looks great

 

Have ALDI always done Medion PC's ?

 

Aye they have. I've always thought the PCs they sell are very good value, especially if you aren't confident enought to build your own.
I bet you couldn't buy anything like that spec from PC World for that price for instance. They prolly know more at Aldi if you need any techinical help as well

 

I tried to add up the components at same spec or greater, and it did come to a close price to ALDI's offer, but only from one supplier.