Did you buy grade b

What's the code?

I havent bought yet. Still trying to find out from them how I get the OEM copy of Windows onto my SSD from the HDD provided
when you clone the drive its copyed over

if you buy an ssd, a cloning software is usually provided. The cloning software usually clones every bits on a specific partition including MBR and your activation, basically hassle free

Plus 4.2% topcashback!

Have a double check, I got done with my mx100 and think all the crucial ssd range do. otherwise do a Google search, should be free options online

Heat anyway, great spec system for £300

Just bought one, always usually build my own so worried about noise and future expandability but I'm sure it will be fine.

I probably won't be able to get it up and running for a week but if the PC is still available I'll fire up some snaps and specs.

I totted up some prices on Amazon and was away up at nearly £500 and that was no mobo or psu.

if you want complete silence, the best way is to build it yourself, get PSUs with fanless modes and huge heat sinks with low rpm fans

Great spec for the price especially those that don't want to diy, heat added.

I bought one too, seems a decent price for the spec especially with £10 off for signing up to newsletter and the 4.2% topcashback. Works out around £278 according to my iffy maths. Some say you cant upgrade Medion. Never done it, whats the best to buy an how do you install an SSD on it, any advice gratefully received?

I'll let you all try out swapping in an SSD first and let me know how you get on. haha

I dont need a better graphics card for my purposes but my son is now asking if it can be upgraded on this Medion for his gameplay, anyone know if its possible and to what?

I bought one - as someone else said, you can't get this kit together for under £300 so it's a rare instance where it's cheaper and lower risk than building yourself. The card is some OEM monstrosity but it should do the job for midrange settings on 1080p.

Have a few concerns with the B grade and this odd thing I've heard about not being able to upgrade, but I think it may be hearsay - looking online I found a German review for this with a different gpu and it said it was fine for upgrades. There were medion desktops a little while back that had a backwards BTX boards in them which I think were a nightmare to upgrade.

I get mine in 3 days, I'll come on and let you all know what it's like!

Changing the card may make the PSU unable to handle it so you should put all the specs via a PSU calculator from new egg to see how much it will really cost.

Will this graphics card be OK for skylines?

I have bought one of these as well to see if I can get back into PC gaming. I'll buy more powerful one if I do and use this as a general PC. Hopefully everything is ok as the spec looks pretty good for the price.

I'll probably use this guide when it does come for SSD..

http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows

My order on medion is showing as closed.. can anyone else that has ordered check theirs?

cheers

I received a DPD tracking no today and mine is on its way.

I got a tracking reference today as well. It looks like the pc's are being sent from Germany where I assume the factory is.

cheers folks.. DPD email received this afternoon

2 x 4GB sticks of ram PC3 12800

350w PSU

Weird hot swap bay below the optical (Samsung)

1TB Toshiba HDD sata 6 7200rpm

GFX card isn't much to look at really, not sure how good it is over say onboard GFX via CPU.

2 x free PCIEX1 slots on mobo.

The frame rates aren't great on benchmark tests. I don't have any games apart from FM2015 just now so can't test it in game.

I might add a 750ti to it if I see any good offers.

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-750-Ti-vs-GeForce-GTX-745

Have some of you received yours? My tracking is still just showing as being at the hub in Germany. Has been since Tuesday...

Minimum system specs say it requires a 300w psu but looking at a lot of the 750ti tests the power consumption is pretty low. As low as 62watts in some tests.

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-750-ti/specifications

Guess that means it wont be arriving for me tomorrow :disappointed: Saturday is no good either as I have sent to my work. Thought it would be OK as I would have the DPD text/email but no good if not even getting that...

Achtung, what do you know, mine just arrived on my doorstep even though it was tracking as at the hub in germany last night! Have to say dont know about B grade, not a mark on mine and smells brand new.

mine has also been delivered :smile:

now..who has successfully swapped over to SSD. .

Update, went to set it up, cue bleeping and no boot up, hardware problem. Checked all the internal wires, repeatedly removed and reconnected the RAM, graphics card, same bleeping. Phoned Medion and it is having to go back. They wont send a re[placement until they get this one back and then its 5 days delivery and to return, I have to wait for a snail mail letter for my return code.....not impressed!

I've not fired up mines yet but plans afoot to add another mechanical HDD beside the stock one, and add a BD Rom in place of that weird hot swap bay for the moment.

Say what? The monitor has to be connected via the HDMI do you mean?

There's a hdmi socket that's horizontal and one at the side call dvid or something similar just to check it's working plug it in your telly using a hdmi it will start straight up

It doesn't have to be hdmi BTW had use the connection at side or it but make sure it's the hdmi that's closer to the top

bump

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xkq6664g6qugneu/2015-04-24-16-52-45.png?dl=0

Onboard GFX are blocked off with plastic to 'guide' you to use dedicated GFX card.

Okay thanks for your help. The scant instructions I have said remove that plastic plug if necessary! That was clearly the issue BUT I have connected to my monitor via HDMI to the horizontal slot rebooted and the bleeping stopped but still not seeing anything on my monitor after waiting for ages, what next!? I am sorted thanks. Had to switch the monitor to HDMI manually even though set to auto.

Thats mine all up and running. On it now. Very quiet...
My tower was brand new, plastic wrap still on the front and none of the documentation had been opened previously. All still sealed.
Now to attempt cloning my HD to SSD.
There was not a spare power cable for my SSD so had to take the one from the disc drive..

missed this!

how on earth do you get into BIOS on this!? tried f2, f11, f12,Delete...

got into BIOS but still can't see the SSD showing up anywhere after clone.. tried removing HDD and just SSD but then won't boot at all..

Well.. After about 3 hours of messing about.. Finally managed to clone Windows 8.1 from the HDD onto the SSD. Huge difference in start up speed!

Crucial BX100

Anyone any idea how I can cast my screen to my Sony W8. Can't find the add device option in windows key +P

Has anyone stuck a GTX 750ti in yet? I am interested to know if it will work with that 350w psu.

Got mine yesterday, brand new, very quiet, really impressed with it, plays Skyrim in ultra settings, what else would you ask?

Mine has a 450w PSU too.

Mine is definitely a 350w psu. Strange that there are 450w psu's in some machines and 350w ones in others.

Cheers got a Crucial M4 I'm considering using.

Finally goes hot 5 days after going OOS.. :smile:

Have used EaseUS cloning software to copy from HDD to SSD. Even worked going from large HDD to small(er) SSD, which can sometimes be a problem. The free verision worked fine.

http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/home-edition/

seems decent for the price

OOS though

Can only assume that one with a 450w PSU were returned for PSU reasons and there was no 350's left at the time so yous lucked out.

If anyone is interested, I picked up an Asus geforce GTX 750ti oc at a reasonable price and installed it in this Medion no problem. 2 minute job with a 2 x molex to 6 pin PCLe socket converter cable. Reasonable gaming performance now. I did receive one with a 450w PSU.

If anyone picks this up I am having issues installing an SSD as my boot drive on this PC. I have cloned my Windows 10 OS onto my SSD and my file manager can see it, but is it just me, I cant figure out how to get the BIOS to recognise my SSD? It lists it as present on the summary screen, but I have tinkered with various settings but it just doesn't list it in the boot manager. Any one got any tips? Thanks