Aldi PC on sale 4th Feb

Rsaeire

smccarrick wrote: »

Its probably a gigabyte board (ok bios settings, but it really is the cheapest board on the market at moment) and if you're lucky a reasonably efficient 500 Watt PSU (I'd like to imagine it has removable modular cabling, but I guess it may be a pipe dream.......)

A modular PSU? What are you smoking smmcarrick! :P

adcrawley

I've had a couple of Aldi PCs over the years and they were all MSI motherboards.
I got the one I'm using now after xmas in dundalk, only 1 in the store and it too has a MSI board.

smccarrick wrote: »

Its probably a gigabyte board (ok bios settings, but it really is the cheapest board on the market at moment) and if you're lucky a reasonably efficient 500 Watt PSU (I'd like to imagine it has removable modular cabling, but I guess it may be a pipe dream.......)

The_Conductor

adcrawley wrote: »

I've had a couple of Aldi PCs over the years and they were all MSI motherboards.
I got the one I'm using now after xmas in dundalk, only 1 in the store and it too has a MSI board.

In which case its probably the MSI H55-E33 motherboard- possibly the H55-E33M?

Johnny Storm

Does anyone know why it comes with 3GB of Ram? Presumeably whatever mobo is in it will support dual channel RAM?
In the very unlikely event I got my hands on one of these and wanted to get another 3GB of RAM to make it dual channel would I have to try to get the same brand of RAM as is already in there?
Thanks.

The_Conductor

Johnny Storm wrote: »

Does anyone know why it comes with 3GB of Ram? Presumeably whatever mobo is in it will support dual channel RAM?
In the very unlikely event I got my hands on one of these and wanted to get another 3GB of RAM to make it dual channel would I have to try to get the same brand of RAM as is already in there?
Thanks.

Its probably the 32bit operating version of Windows 7- so when you factor the graphics memory into the equation- the system can't address more than the 3Gb. Most systems would normally put 4Gb in Dual channel in, regardless, but its a cost saving here. Given the vast improvement in memory management with the memory controller onchip- its not going to make much of a difference one way or the other.

Re: getting another 3Gb- you'd then need the 64Bit version of the operating system (its actually not clear which version is on it). You would need either identical memory- or else memory with the same timings (and hope for the best) if you wanted to maximise its potential. Wouldn't necessarily have to be the same brand- the chipset and timings would suffice.

mgadget

Desn't seem to be any video outputs, HDMI/VGA/HDMI etc on the IO panel as pictured on the medion website. That would seem to indicate that a P55 board is used and possibly explains why they've included the graphics card.

smccarrick wrote: »

In which case its probably the MSI H55-E33 motherboard- possibly the H55-E33M?

nellyshark

Posting from the PC now

Seen as they made such a balls of the last pc on sale which i wanted i persisted and had the pc on sale tmoro held.

So far,

Comparable to my 9 yr old pc it is very quiet and quick
Still getting used to Windows 7
Did an install of 64bit (dont know why, i read it in another thread and just decided to do it)

It comes with 32 and 64 bit and some sort of recovery cd

Any questions shout and ill do my best to answer them.

Do-more

nellyshark wrote: »

Any questions shout and ill do my best to answer them.

Do you know how many each branch will have tomorrow?

iamskippy

mgadget wrote: »

Desn't seem to be any video outputs, HDMI/VGA/HDMI etc on the IO panel as pictured on the medion website.

there is one hdmi as far as i recall from the specs

That would seem to indicate that a P55 board is used and possibly explains why they've included the graphics card.

What is the significance of a P55 board? Is that good or bad?

mgadget

H55 has video outputs on the board which will use the inbuilt graphics chip on the intel i3 CPU. P55 has no video outputs, the graphics chip on the intel processor is redundant and a graphics card must be used for video output. The included G210 graphics card has the necessary video outputs.

iamskippy wrote: »

there is one hdmi as far as i recall from the specs


What is the significance of a P55 board? Is that good or bad?

iamskippy

nellyshark wrote: »

Posting from the PC now

Seen as they made such a balls of the last pc on sale which i wanted i persisted and had the pc on sale tmoro held.

So far,

Comparable to my 9 yr old pc it is very quiet and quick
Still getting used to Windows 7
Did an install of 64bit (dont know why, i read it in another thread and just decided to do it)

It comes with 32 and 64 bit and some sort of recovery cd

Any questions shout and ill do my best to answer them.

you have it? Nice one.

There is an hdmi output? There are restore disks? A Windows Disk? How quite is very quiet? Is there an email prog if so which one

nellyshark

Do-more wrote: »

Do you know how many each branch will have tomorrow?

No I dont, but from my calls with Head Office and Area Managers it seems to be agreed that they ballsed up expectation of previous pc so id expect there would be a few more than 2 but I dont know tbh

nellyshark

iamskippy wrote: »

you have it? Nice one.

There is an hdmi output? There are restore disks? A Windows Disk? How quite is very quiet? Is there an email prog if so which one

There is an hdmi output?

I am not sure what hdmi is but on the setting up components leaflet step 1 is

Connect the signal cable of your monitor either to the VGA (Q), the HDMI (M) or the DVI (Q) connection of your PC. (Please read the operating manual for your monitor)

There are restore disks? A Windows Disk?

There are 4 physical disks provided:
Windows 7 64 bit
Windows 7 32 bit
Microsoft Works 9
A cd entitled "Application & Support disc" when booted from cd has something about rescue in it

How quite is very quiet?

Unable to answer this really. My previous pc was very noisy and this pc is the opposite, so much so i miss the noise and wonder whether it is doing anything. A cd inserted in my other would be like a vacuuum type noise, this pc is just like the cd twirling

Is there an email prog if so which one

Upon booting the pc i installed 64 bit but I dont rem seeing any email prog

iamskippy

nellyshark wrote: »

I am not sure what hdmi is but on the setting up components leaflet step 1 is




There are 4 physical disks provided:
Windows 7 64 bit
Windows 7 32 bit
Microsoft Works 9
A cd entitled "Application & Support disc" when booted from cd has something about rescue in it


Unable to answer this really. My previous pc was very noisy and this pc is the opposite, so much so i miss the noise and wonder whether it is doing anything. A cd inserted in my other would be like a vacuuum type noise, this pc is just like the cd twirling


Upon booting the pc i installed 64 bit but I dont rem seeing any email prog

Ok thanks, good luck with it.
PS what is the keyboard like? Are all the keys flush or is it one where they sort of stand alone

iamskippy

mgadget wrote: »

H55 has video outputs on the board which will use the inbuilt graphics chip on the intel i3 CPU. P55 has no video outputs, the graphics chip on the intel processor is redundant and a graphics card must be used for video output. The included G210 graphics card has the necessary video outputs.

Says HDMI at
http://aldi.medion.com/md8341/ie/?refPage=aldi

iamskippy

As it has 2 windows disks would that mean that it could be wiped and windows installed alone without the extra software like the bullguard av which i do not intend to use as i have a sub paid on nav 09 for 3 pcs and its on 2

nellyshark

iamskippy wrote: »

As it has 2 windows disks would that mean that it could be wiped and windows installed alone without the extra software like the bullguard av which i do not intend to use as i have a sub paid on nav 09 for 3 pcs and its on 2

There was a pile on sh!t preloaded so I just clean installed 64 bit so i guess yeah, there was nothing on the 64 bit so I installed my regulars.

Lol you would swear I knew what I was talking about

iamskippy

nellyshark wrote: »

There was a pile on sh!t preloaded so I just clean installed 64 bit so i guess yeah, there was nothing on the 64 bit so I installed my regulars.

usually is a load of crap preinstalled.

tom747

hi all , could you change the graphic card for a geforce 9800gt 1 gig. it uses less power then the one installed and i have one sitting around here some where.

Cróga

nellyshark wrote: »

Any questions shout and ill do my best to answer them.

Could you please check if it has Stereo Mix?... if you dont know how to find that right click the sound icon and click Recording Devices then you should see Stereo Mix and if not try right clicking to show disabled and disconnected devices to see if it comes up then.. would really much appreciate it... as i need a new pc but it must have stereo mix... thanks

the_one_&_only

Do-more wrote: »

Do you know how many each branch will have tomorrow?

My next door neighbour works in an Aldi store and she said her shop has 4 machines today

Mountjoy Mugger

Branch?

Thankfully d bro was able to pick one up in a store in Limk, he was told they only had 6 per store!
Now to get it from Limk...

the_one_&_only

Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »

Branch?

Aldi on the Fonthill Road had 4 machines

nellyshark

Cróga wrote: »

Could you please check if it has Stereo Mix?... if you dont know how to find that right click the sound icon and click Recording Devices then you should see Stereo Mix and if not try right clicking to show disabled and disconnected devices to see if it comes up then.. would really much appreciate it... as i need a new pc but it must have stereo mix... thanks

Prob too late but I checked like you said and cannot see anything re stereo mixing so i dont think it has it. Someone else maybe able to answer better than me tho

nellyshark

nellyshark wrote: »

Prob too late but I checked like you said and cannot see anything re stereo mixing so i dont think it has it. Someone else maybe able to answer better than me tho

That is possibly due to Win 7
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpromedia/thread/73415150-ec9b-44ea-8119-a2ea4f901ca0

Tea_Bag

so... verdict? anyone do any benchmarking/know what MB and PSU it has?

Thoushaltnot

Right,

if the cover is removed, does that void the warranty?

And is SiSoftSandra any use as a software snapshot of components? Used it before but found it a bit hard to decipher. Device manager? Cheers.

adcrawley

MD8341
E4355D

its an MSI MS7616 board with 1 x pci-express and 1 pci slot.
its probably an OEM code

2 very short slots in between.

power supply is a FSP350-60EMDN

4 memory slots onboard, 2 in use

geforce 210 512mb ddr2

Tea_Bag wrote: »

so... verdict? anyone do any benchmarking/know what MB and PSU it has?

leprechaun1916

What is the maximum memory I can put into those 4 slots, leaving in the 3 Gb that are already there? I was thinking of adding in at least another 1Gb if not 2Gb, was just wondering how far could you go on this machine?

Thanks

leprechaun1916

leprechaun1916 wrote: »

What is the maximum memory I can put into those 4 slots, leaving in the 3 Gb that are already there? I was thinking of adding in at least another 1Gb if not 2Gb, was just wondering how far could you go on this machine?

Thanks

www.crucial.com is your mate there
use internet explorer and allow it to scan your system,it will then report back as to what configurations the machine will take

adcrawley

you'd need to install the 64 bit os to be able to take advantage of any memory you install, to get over the 32 bit versions limitation of not being able to address more than 4gb of memory.
The 64 bit version is supplied on the dvd,

leprechaun1916 wrote: »

What is the maximum memory I can put into those 4 slots, leaving in the 3 Gb that are already there? I was thinking of adding in at least another 1Gb if not 2Gb, was just wondering how far could you go on this machine?

Thanks

iamskippy

adcrawley wrote: »

MD8341
E4355D

its an MSI MS7616 board with 1 x pci-express and 1 pci slot.
its probably an OEM code

2 very short slots in between.

power supply is a FSP350-60EMDN

4 memory slots onboard, 2 in use

geforce 210 512mb ddr2

I have one.Is that a good board? And good power supply?

leprechaun1916

thanks for those replys, much appreciated

oldyouth

Using it now that Oldyouth Jnr. has given me a go at it. Happy out so far.
My son queued at one of the Wexford stores and 10 people were ahead of him. They all went charging down the aisle and he went over to the side and asked an assistant who showed him where they were (not in the usual place:p)

Tea_Bag

oldyouth wrote: »

Using it now that Oldyouth Jnr. has given me a go at it. Happy out so far.
My son queued at one of the Wexford stores and 10 people were ahead of him. They all went charging down the aisle and he went over to the side and asked an assistant who showed him where they were (not in the usual place:p)

how many were there in the store?

oldyouth

Tea_Bag wrote: »

how many were there in the store?

2 stores in Wexford. I'm told there were 4 other PCs in the one in Clonard

Tea_Bag

oldyouth wrote: »

2 stores in Wexford. I'm told there were 4 other PCs in the one in Clonard

so they doubled their quantity from the last PC, but 4 just isnt enough. aldi for the fail.

Idbatterim

after the previous debacle with their PC offer, i couldnt care less how good the offer is im not interested! at the start of January, I got up at 8am drove in the snow and ice, get into the store and am told they only have 2 and they are gone! The first time I got a Medion from ALDI years ago, when they had very few branches, I had to go into Parnell St, again they were all gone before the store had even opened! Im not going to be stung a 3rd time!

iamskippy

nellyshark wrote: »

Upon booting the pc i installed 64 bit but I dont rem seeing any email prog

how do you do this. do you have to change the boot order to boot from the dvd with win 64. When i put win 64 in the disc tray it said not compatible with your version. Or do i have to reformat?

Tea_Bag

iamskippy wrote: »

how do you do thois. do you have to change the boot order to boot from the dvd with win 64. When i put win 64 in the disc tray it said not compatible with your version. Or do i have to reformat?

full format of the HDD.

boot from cd/format Hdd/install 64bit

iamskippy

Tea_Bag wrote: »

full format of the HDD.

boot from cd/format Hdd/install 64bit

thanks for the fast reply - format twice? ok got it

Tea_Bag

well no just format once.

boot from cd/format Hdd/install 64bit.

iamskippy

I got it but cannot find the key for the 64 bit version. What were the keys on one is on pc. i went through the bin and packing

RobertFoster

It uses the same key for both 32/64bit. Should be stuck to the computer itself.

Pappy o' daniel

I think 64 bit windows7 need 4GBs of ram minimum. This PC has only 3GBs.

nephster

Pappy o' daniel wrote: »

I think 64 bit windows7 need 4GBs of ram minimum. This PC has only 3GBs.

No it doesn't need 4GB - 2 would do fine. Rather, it's pointless to have 4GBs or more on x86 as it can't use it all.

nellyshark

iamskippy wrote: »

I got it but cannot find the key for the 64 bit version. What were the keys on one is on pc. i went through the bin and packing

Whats all this about keys? I *think* I just booted the cd and that was it, cant entirely remember tho!

guinnessdrinker

Annoyed I missed this, was in the Claremorris and Castlebar Aldi's before 11am yesterday and there was no sign of any of them left. Looked like a good offer.

Pappy o' daniel

nephster wrote: »

No it doesn't need 4GB - 2 would do fine. Rather, it's pointless to have 4GBs or more on x86 as it can't use it all.

What difference does the 64bit make?