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On the 4th Feb 2010 ALDI have a special deal on a desktop PC for the price of £399.99. This is a Core i3-530 CPU running at 2.93Ghz, 3 GIG ram, 1TB HD and so forth. As is always the case with anything at ALDI, once it has gone, you won’t see it again – so be quick to get this deal.

Specs

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

This is a New CPU by Intel which is a dual core CPU but has hyper-threading which in real terms means it acts like a quad core CPU.

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

The G210 is a low end unit compared to today’s cards but it can still play games should you wish. The machine will feature a PCI_Express slot to allow for upgrading later.

Massive 3 GB DDR3 SDRAM

Although not amazing – at least it is DDR-3 and 3 should keep you going until memory prices drop again.

Large 1 TB (1000 GB) S-ATA hard disk for more than 200,000 music title or photos

1TB is nice to have, you should not run out of room too quickly with this.

Multiformat DVD/CD burner2 supports all the usual DVD/CD standards, incl. dual layer DVD-R and DVD+R

No Blu-ray but not to be expected at this price point.

  • 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.)

    • Wireless on a dekstop is not common and odd to include but if you are wanting to go wire free, this allows you to put the machine in any room without having to wire in cables but if you need the speed, the GIGABIT wired network is a nice addition.

    No Monitor included.

    Remember this is the computer only, no monitor is supplied, so you will need to buy your own or use the one you have if you are upgrading a machine.

    Worth the price?

    What they have done, as with any PC builder these days, is take a few components and plugging them to make the machine sound amazing for the price but remember a computer is the sum of all parts. The Core i3 Is new and have received some good reviews. Do not expect true Quad core performance and do not mistaken this for a Core i7 by any stretch.

    The NVIDIA® GeForce® G210 DirectX® 10 graphics card will play games but the numbers on the various benchmarks are low indeed, as is common with Nvidia, they just rename an old part. The good side is that the Graphics Card will be very quiet and if you do not play many games, this will suit to the ground.

    1TB drives are very cheap indeed, you can get one for £57 for example online. Wireless is like £14 and so on – so you can see them big numbers don’t really mean much in the big picture.

    For more technical Info – head off to HERE