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Akoya MD 8830 Entertainment PC Base Station

As always with these cheap PCs, it`s not going to play the latest games at highest res, but good value for money, about £100 cheaper than similar spec machine from other places.

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Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E4500 Dual Core Technology 2.2 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB
High performance dual core processor with ultra silent cooling technology.

What is Intel® Core™ 2 Duo?
The innovative Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors, based on the Intel® Core™ micro-architecture have been designed for powerful performance and low energy consumption, handling more operations at the same time without compromising on speed. The Intel® Core™ 2 Duo desktop processor increases performance by up to 40% with Windows Vista™, compared with earlier Intel processors.

Huge 2048MB DDR2 memory
Speed rating 667MHz. Massive memory for maximum performance.

Gigantic S-ATA 500GB Hard Disk
8MB cache, super-fast 7200rpm. Stores up to 100,000 MP3 tracks (4MB) or 100,000 digital photos (4MB) or 225 hours of video (depending on quality of recording).

Windows Vista® Home Premium Operating System
Windows Vista® Home Premium delivers enhanced productivity and entertainment at home and on the go, making it easy to enjoy digital photos, music, TV, games and movies, while providing a whole new level of security and reliability (including improved, customisable parental controls) on your desktop.

NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GS graphics card with HDMI connection and Microsoft® DirectX 10 support for crystal clear graphics
This NVIDIA® graphics card allows you to enjoy up-to-the-minute gaming software and incredibly detailed multimedia applications in fabulous quality. It guarantees ultra-realistic video displays and makes available the graphics extras offered by the new Windows Vista™ operating system. Graphic has 256MB memory, DVI-I, HDMI and TV-out connection.

A world of television
2-in-1 TV Tuner, DVB-T and analogue TV including remote control.

* Watch Digital TV (Freeview) and analogue TV on your PC, in a window or full screen
* Enjoy sharper pictures and clearer sound without paying a subscription fee with Freeview digital TV channels
* Record TV programmes to your hard drive or transfer to CD/DVD disc and play them back again and again
* Use the schedule function to schedule your recordings with the 14 day EPG (Electronic Programme Guide)
* With the time shift function you can pause live TV programmes so you never miss a thing
* The included remote control can be used to play, pause, record, stop, fast forward or rewind programmes

Multi format CD/DVD Burner
Supports all the usual CD/DVD standards, including dual layer DVD-R, DVD+R and DVD-RAM.

8 Channel High Definition Audio
Enjoy amazing digital 'home cinema' surround sound. Use in conjunction with a suitable speaker set.

Gigabit LAN on board: 10/100/1000 Mbit/s

This item was edited on Monday, 11th February 2008, 19:03

TBH what`s putting me off buying one of these is that it only has one drive.
If i buy one, then i can`t just put a blank disc is the burner & leave if to do its thing.
If i fit a second drive, a reader, does that mean the warranty is void because I've opened it?
Plus, i don`t know how to connect a drive anyway.
I've swapped drives before, but don't know how to rig up a drive. :/

It`s "usually" easy.

"normally" there`s an IDE able (flat one) that connects to motherboard at one end, other end to the installed CD drive. In the middle there`s an extra connection so you can plug that into new/extra drive. Sometimes though the cable doesn`t have the middle connector. (or on old PCs there is one cable, with hard drive and cd both on it :( but that wouldn`t apply here as HD is SATA)

as for warranty, I don`t know, I think that depends on the company. Some you have to return to base full unit, some faulty part, depends on what exactly is wrong. for example my PC is a mesh, when hard drive went, they sent me the details to get a courier to pick it up from me, and sent me knew one. If it was a processor problem, i guess they`d want whole thing.

hi all
can anyone remember how to do a factory reset  been given one of these and no discs its working  but need a good cleanout /reinstall i am going to use as a media centre for the wife in the kitchen so she can record her judge judy etc may have too swap the tv card for a dual tuner tho :)

thanks for any input

sometimes these PCs have a recovery partition so you may be able to boot off that to do a fresh install, maybe holding f12, f8 or somehting may be what you need to do, or if you press delete as it starts their may be somehting in the bios which will help you?

otherwise using whatever CD/DVD you have to install another OS should let you do a fresh install and format the existing drive.

thanks for the reply  i gave up and installed win 8.1 with media centre works a treat and the software found in the tools folder also installs double bonus  just a shame the remote is missing
thanks again