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The year 2021 is almost over – you could at least think: around 7 p.m. it is already dark in many places. And most discounters strongly advertise the first chocolate Santa Clauses – as if tomorrow were Christmas Eve. It is only at the end of October. And like every year, there is one PC at Aldi at this time – from October 28, 2021 even two. The Medion Akoya E62031 is in the southern branches. The Medion Akoya P53004 tested here is available at all 4,159 Aldi locations nationwide. Cost: 549 euros. is that a good offer? The test of the Aldi PC gives answers!
Medion Akoya P53004 in the test: inconspicuous
The Medion Akoya P53004 comes with an inconspicuous, simple housing. The black, partly perforated metal side walls give the user a tiny look inside, but the openings are primarily used for air circulation. Medion has given the plastic front cover a chic carbon look. Good: As is common with many PCs today, there are also two USB sockets on the upper front of the Medion for convenient connection of USB sticks or external SSDs as well as sockets for headphones and a microphone.
- Processor: The motor is the Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G, which has only been used in a few PCs so far and which AMD introduced last year.
- Graphics chip: The Vega 7 graphics chip housed in the CPU is responsible for calculating the image reproduction on connected monitors – there is no separate graphics card.
- Random access memory: For a PC that costs 549 euros, the Medion has a comparatively large amount of RAM – the processor is supported by an impressive 16 gigabytes.
- SSD: Windows 11, programs and data are stored on an SSD in the small M.2 format with PCI Express 3.0 connection and effectively 477 gigabytes of memory.
The Aldi PC performed well in the pace measurements: It was visibly under-challenged with Office programs such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint, and with tasks on the Internet anyway. PCs need a lot of steam for complex photo and video editing, but the Medion did it in no time at all. Programs that can distribute calculations to the six processor cores – including applications such as Photoshop or Premiere – benefit from the AMD CPU. The pace of work was high overall. Also good: the Aldi PC works quietly, its fans could only be heard under full load. And with an average energy consumption of almost 27 watts, the Medion was extremely economical in the test. Too bad: games like the upcoming first person shooter “Call of Duty Vanguard “(sales start November 5, 2021) cannot be played with the Aldi PC. The graphics chip built into the processor is far too weak for that.
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DVD-BD drives
Upgrade: possible, but not much
A more powerful separate graphics card can be retrofitted, but only entry-level models like that Powercolor Radeon RX 6600 Hellhound. Why? The power supply offers only 250 watts of power – that’s too little for more powerful imagers such as models with Geforce RTX 3060 chip (from 650 euros). The other upgrade options are okay, but not outstanding; for example, an additional hard drive or 2.5-inch SSD can be installed inside.
