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I replaced the Hard Drive with an SSD, of course. 256 MB of RAM, Pentium III (as I avoid Pentium 4 and Pentium D and any NetBurst CPUs like the plague), ATI 8MB, DVD drive, and the coup de grace, dual booting Windows 98 and Windows 2000.

I had the MD8386 model, the motherboard was now a LGA775 with a 3.2GHz P4 640 (not capable of Core 2 or even Pentium D) and 1GB of RAM - and 320GB of HDD (actually 2x 160) - and the Radeon X740XL in PCIE

They made really good pc's

Hi. Good video. I had the same idea: Windows 98 retro PC by adding a soundblaster audio card and disabling the onboard audio chip and LAN, serial and parallel port. Replace the CMOS battery. But with a 160gb HD I prefer a dual boot. Installing Win98 on the drive partitionned with fdisk at x% and then last installing XP. If a game does not work in XP, Win98 could be used. My XP version create a dual boot automatically when 98 is installed first. You could try and see if it does the same with yours. Do not surf the internet with XP.

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I grew up right next to the german border in Switzerland and it was always very exciting to know that from next monday there will be a new Medion for cheap behind the border. I had no car as a kid and had towalk with a trolley lol

My grandma purchased a aldi PC a few years ago has been using it since. it recently died power supply exploded while she was away lucky her house didn't burn down lol

Excellent video! I am absolutely jealous of this PC with it's options and high quality components! During that time (~2001-2002), my dad spoke with a Dell representative on the phone to "configure a PC for our needs" and it performed much worse than our Gateway from 1998! I found out later it had a Celeron and no AGP slot. Rough times...

(Einstellungen = settings) am a german my self :)

Excellent video. Very nostalgic build.

My dad was in love with getting computers and digital cameras from Aldi haha

I envy your moustache.

they said the young leftists would push pentium 3 processors more effectively but they screwed up more than previous leftists

Think back in the day they did commodore 64 Machines too so its a long standing thing with computers. I hear those C64s are colectable as not that many were made for aldi.

Bloatware was half the fun of a new PC. These days bloatware is almost spyware.

i had a i7 laptop form medion it was a big beast stil in operation for just simple tasks with SSD still great

I have a soft spot for all the German aldi/lidl Medion devices - not because I ever had one but because the 2nd hand market was flooded with medion branded parts no one wanted as some small companies woudl buy up all the unsold stocks and scrap them for parts so medion parts were always your go to cheapo choice for building a budget PC. Well I might say I was sorta a genious of building my friends a pc that could barely run latest games for peanuts xD No one could ever beat my builds in price to performance but then I cut every single corner possible - can't affors a PSU good enough for the build? - No worries look at that 20€ server power supply! - Dude it's high quality server part, don't worry none of the connectors fit ATX, bring me that old PSU of yours and some beer I'll solder it up together... HAHAHAHAHA My last poverty build was cyberpunk capable PC in the middle of covid shortages for 250€ total

1:29 I would've killed for a TV tuner and S-Video capture in 2003. This was a feature old power macintosh users loved to brag about. So many windows users were capturing RCA over USB solutions like Dazzle and the archival quality really suffered.

Had one of these for a while. I can’t remember why returned it. Had an issue and spoke to their support over the phone that explained how to reinstall Windows!😊

An Australian man making videos about old pc’s. Ah the joys of life.

You've got it all wrong at 1:37. That's there either for BACKUPS of movies ;) or to play Beyond Good and Evil at the same time as Unreal 2000

In the UK medion PCs represent pretty good value.

Hi Dad!

Keep it with Windows XP that's what it came with.

Hey mate nice little channel you got here!! Hit me up if you ever need any retro parts I sell heaps here in aus.

My mates parents had one of these. Maybe slightly later it had an external hdd dock on the top. It was stull being used when i went round a few years back and running pretty well.

My first PC was this exact PC when i was a teenager with the same graphics card etc. I think it was November 19th 2003 when it came out and my mom went to Aldi at 7am because these computers were in demand for the price. 1179€ if I'm not mistaken Was gaming on these until I build my first PC in 2007 and was really good too (Half life 2, Far cry, Doom 3) Really fond memories. Thanks for the video

well filmed video to

my friend had a pc like this it had a q6600 cpu and a 8600GT but was all priority parts he gave it to me but I resold it.

PATTY?! IS THAT YOU?! What are the chances lol, clicked on this binging retro pc yt because my mum had one of these hateful little machines, (hatefull in 2014 with a shitty maxtorr hdd begging to die) small world and absolutely lovely video sir

Also grew up with a C600 with practically identical specs except with a 10gb HDD, runs windows xp home and has a broken right hinge and the left hinge isn’t fairing the best either, with the display only working at certain angles. Last time I fired it up it was having difficulties firing up, I’ll eventually get around to restoring it, but in the meantime a C840 has taken its place running win 98 (that was kinda a PITA to set up due to the C840 not being designed for win98 (sleep doesn’t work properly and pressing the power button immediately hard shuts down the machine for example), but I’m not really that happy with it since it’s a bit too different visually to my C600, so I’ll probably get a C640 instead. (And swap over the 2.4ghz p4 in the C840 to the C640)

I wouldn’t mind one of these medion machines, they seem pretty cool.

You should check the laptops as well. I have the leftovers of a Gericom Hummer, they were sold in Aldi, this thing is a tank ! Pentium 4-M 3.06Ghz, Radeon 9700M, extremely solid frame.

Man this brings back memories. Back in the early 2000s I used to work at a place building PCs - a lot of the time I'd build brand new custom order PCs from parts, but my boss somehow managed to buy pallets of old Medion returns that we'd have to try to fix. I've dealt with hundreds, if not thousands of them spanning Pentium 3 era to systems that look just like these ones, although the ones I dealt with had a GeForce 4 Ti4200 in them instead of the Radeon. I'd have to figure out what was wrong with them and replace/swap parts around to try to get as many working systems as I could. At the time I remember getting quite frustrated with them but looking back they were all made of decent components. Been a long time since I've seen one of these systems intact and running : )

Yay, I'm your 600th subscriber o/ Really interesting channel c:

Windows 98 works perfectly with 1Gb or even 2Gb RAM, provided you've done the R. Lowe patch. You can dismiss it as much as you like, doesn't make it not work. I have several Win98 and even Win ME machines running perfectly for years with zero issues.

they still sell medion hardware germany a few times a year even tvs tablets etc. I also had that pc

Windows x-pp-c

I remember Windows laptops sold at my Aldi location in the mid to late 2000s. It was a Medion brand but advertised with internal components from Samsung Ram to Hitachi HDD. Truly wacky times lol!

How big is the hdd and how many games have on it.?

Nice build. It's a very well explained and detailed video.

great stuff!

Top production value for a (for now) small channel. Keep on!

Man i love the XP era of computing and technology. So much optimism and random fun.

0:20 they still sell brand-new Medion PCs to this day in our Aldi (Hofer) in Austria

Regarding the dual optical drives, the conventional wisdom at the time was that because writers were significantly more expensive than basic readers, it was better to have both and place all the day-to-day wear and tear on the cheaper drive and just use the writer when needed. Making piracy easier was just a side benefit.

einstellungen means settings. Just letting you know, AP.

I actually used XP x64 back in the day as I had some photo-editing software that could really leverage the extra ram. That said, once Vista x64 came out I jumped immediately; there’s really no use case for that version of XP anymore.

“Combination modem and TV Tuner” What a bizarre combination.

I got one of those whith a p4 3.4ghz and the nvidia 6610xl it actualy runs rather good. The only problem is that de 3.4ghz p4 gets realy...realy hot but with a cpu cooler upgrade and a self made front fan that got that problem solved.