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Medion launches £900 ERAZER Gaming PC armed with Intel's Core i7

by Parm Mann on 25 February 2009, 10:15

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Medion might be better known for selling value-minded products at your local ALDI, but it's moving up a gear with the introduction of a system that's gunning for the gaming market.

The system in question - dubbed the ERAZER X7311D Gaming PC - packs a 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 920 processor, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics, 6GB of DDR3 memory and a useful 1TB storage capacity - all for a tidy sum of £899.

As you'll no doubt have spotted, the chink in this gaming PC's armour is the GeForce 9600 GT graphics card. Although perfectly capable and potent in the mid-range space, it might not live up to the expectations of the "professional and hard core gamers" that Medion is targeting.

If you're not all about gaming, however, it's a more-than-potent system for everyday use and the Core i7 processor will make light work of heavily multi-threaded applications.

The problem, we feel, is that Medion may have trouble convincing higher-end consumers. After all, £899 can bag a similarly-spec'd Studio XPS from a well-known brand such as Dell.

Official press release: MEDION® powers into the gaming market with ERAZER® PC



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coming to a lidl near you soon no doubt :D
I've always found Medion PCs to have poor build quality, especially the cases. From the photo it looks cheap and nasty, and it little too high priced for Aldi or lidl… nearest one of those to me is Melksham and its usually full of pikies.
Definitely too pricey - it looks like Medion have been fooled by Intel's marketing too! Core i7 and 6GB are wasted in gaming if you've only got a 9600GT! They'd've been much better off with a high-clock Core2 duo and 4GB RAM, which would've saved them enough to use at least a 9800GT! *sigh*
scaryjim
Definitely too pricey - it looks like Medion have been fooled by Intel's marketing too! Core i7 and 6GB are wasted in gaming if you've only got a 9600GT!
It's the perfect system for Football Manager. :P

Seriously though, it's stupid having a 9600GT in even a mid-range gaming system - it's reserved for the budget gamer. Still, the practice has been going on for long enough, so it's hardly a surprise.