Medion MD8820

Nikesh · 12-02-2007, 15:01

Medion MD8820 Multimedia PC Base System

- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
- 250Gb Hard Disk
- 1Gb RAM
- Intel Pentium D 915 Dual Core Processor 2.8GHz
- NVidia GeForce 7300 SE Graphics

Price: ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£399.99 in Aldi

Full details here.

Any thoughts on this? Good price?

nffc · 12-02-2007, 15:17

It's an old dual core, with a poor graphics card, but I suppose you'd struggle to build a similar spec competitively. No screen though.

handyman · 12-02-2007, 15:39

I don't think it's bad for ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£400. Depends what you want it for? Mine is similar spec and does me just fine running xp/vista..

nffc · 12-02-2007, 16:25

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Originally Posted by handyman

I don't think it's bad for ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£400. Depends what you want it for? Mine is similar spec and does me just fine running xp/vista..

For 400, no, but just saying it's not the latest processor. The C2D is infinitely better than the Pentium D.

It is a bit weird though, that the Pentium D is dual core, in fact that's what the D means, but the Celeron D isn't. I suppose it's another deathknell for the celeries really.

Osem · 12-02-2007, 18:41

Have the previous model. Don't forget they come with a 3 year warranty too guys.

Nikesh · 09-02-2008, 17:46

I didn't end up getting that PC in the end. There's a newer model now which I think looks pretty good for the price? What's your thoughts please?

Medion MD8830 Multimedia PC Base System

- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
- 500Gb Hard Disk
- 2Gb RAM
- Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E4500 2.2 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB
- Nvidia GeForce 8600GS

Full details here

They're selling it this thursday.

nffc · 09-02-2008, 18:27

Looks reasonable, though the 8600 isn't that good (plus it's nvidia).

09-02-2008, 18:56

its better than the other one lol ime the tv cards are pretty poop

09-02-2008, 19:30

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

its better than the other one lol ime the tv cards are pretty poop

I've got the Medion8828, which has a '3 in 1' TV card (terrestrial, DVB-T & DVB-S), which may not be the same as this latest offering - but ..

My impression of the terrestrial TV performance agrees with zingle, the RF out from a VM Samsung 2100C used to be fine on my previous ATI card, but now often pixillates badly with the new one. The DVB-T picture is a lot better, but I don't get all the channels with a portable aerial.

The poor RF performance is compounded by the silly situation that Media Center (sic) insists that it must detect an IR remote before it will allow choosing an STB as an input, rather than an aerial, hence preventing the use of the SVideo input on the PC - i.e the installation aborts if an IR remote is not detected.

Apart from that & the fairly noisy hard disk, I've been happy with it..

Nikesh · 09-02-2008, 21:51

Thanks guys. Much appreciated. TV isn't a problem as I've got a WinTV card which I could use instead if the medion one isn't very good.

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Originally Posted by homealone

Apart from that & the fairly noisy hard disk, I've been happy with it..

How noisy is the hard drive? I've always thought these machines were pretty quiet... my uncle has an older model and I couldn't even tell it was on!

dragon · 09-02-2008, 22:02

http://hotukdeals.com/item/140956/de...top-base-quad/

http://hotukdeals.com/item/140954/de...op-base-2-2gh/
http://hotukdeals.com/item/143333/de...top-base-amd-/

Spose it depends if you want the Media stuff, but nothing to stop you putting a TV card in a standard pc.

Nikesh · 09-02-2008, 22:25

The first deal looks really good with quad core processor. I suppose it will be more "future proof".
I will take a look at Dell, thanks.

dragon · 09-02-2008, 22:37

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Originally Posted by Nikesh

The first deal looks really good with quad core processor. I suppose it will be more "future proof".
I will take a look at Dell, thanks.

I bought mine from a deal on hotukdeals some months back.

Mine was a e6420 (2.13ghz 1033fsb)
2gb ram
500gb hdd (2x 250gb)
vista basic
x1300 pro 256mb

put another 2gb ram in (ddr2 is cheap atm) and swaped the x1300 with the 7800GT i had in the other pc.

paid around 380 for it at the time.

Was going to build one after my other pc kept playing up (we still got it but I think the motherboard or ram has a problem.) but It was cheaper to buy the dell and I was feeling lazy

09-02-2008, 22:44

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Originally Posted by Nikesh

The first deal looks really good with quad core processor. I suppose it will be more "future proof".
I will take a look at Dell, thanks.

you say future proof but it will have a "smell" motherboard which I do not like however its cheap

Nikesh · 09-02-2008, 22:51

HMmm... I think the Medion would be better suited as it's a more "all rounder" and I do like to play the odd game sometimes. I don't think there are many programs that use four cores either?