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there's no doubt about it. that's the same case as my old advent t11. that also happened to be the most horrible case to work with, the same blower fan and shroud around the cpu (at the time, an old P4) meant it was a huge dust magnet.
@ilovethemonkeyhead: That's interesting, though since the case has zero fans pulling air in and not too many openings, I wonder how much more dust it collects than any other case. I'd be interested to know what you are comparing it with?
@Martin Daler: Sorry about that. Medion PCs are occasionally available from Aldi supermarkets, but this specific model can be found at Tesco.
@Ardjuna, Well I've had a Medion PC & my cousin had one too, and I'd have to agree with ilovethemonkeyhead that they do tend to collect a lot of dust, I'm comparing to say an Antec 900. I'd suggest investing in a can of Air and take the sides of every couple of months :). I assume because of the single fan it's easer for the dust to settle.
But you do get a lot for your money, and it's not the easiest case to work in like ilove said, but I did manage to get a Geforce 8800GTX in one.. :)
The other thing worth mentioning if you do upgrade your GFX card in these, you will find you will loose some of those connections as there tightly integrated.
@Keith: Lol, I used to own a Medion as well - a faithful little beast that never had any real problems, but being a P4 with 256MB of RAM is now getting somewhat long in the tooth and is only used as backup word-processor by my parents.
And yes, it was a dust magnet :D, but it actually had an air intake without dust filter, so that was inevitable.
As to losing connectors, good point. On the Akoya P36888 you could lose two SATAs depending on the card.
@As to losing connectors, good point. On the Akoya P36888 you could lose two SATAs depending on the card.
I'm not sure on the P36888, but on my old Medion it had an ATI 700 series graphics card, and they was a kind of custom patch panel that integrated into the Graphics card & M/B etc, this gave you the SVideo/Composite/Scart connections etc, unfortunately the GeForce never had the same connections, so lost the SVideo/Composite/Scart etc basically making the ports redundant.
the only thing I can see at Tesco that looks like this (they don't seem to use the Medion model names) costs £100 more. Would that affect your value rating? (Seems to be out of stock anyway)
...unless you buy it with bundled 22" monitor, when the price goes down by £1 compared to the base unit alone. Go figure. Still not actually available to buy anyway, so I suppose they could call it any price they wanted. Come to that TR could give it any rating they wanted - it doesn't exist. Sorry, I'm rambling.
@Martin Daler: It was available and in stock at the stated price when the review went live. However, you're right; Tesco doesn't seem to offer it anymore. Would anyone like to comment if they DID manage to get hold of one?
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