Questions about Medion Akoya P5303 H

The PCIe x16 slot is already occupied by the graphics card. Unfortunately, there is no second slot.

The PC has a 350W power supply unit. As a rule, the minimum requirements of the graphics card manufacturers are very accurate. It may be that the system starts with the new graphics card and runs well in normal operation, but as soon as more power is needed (when gaming, for example) or some USB devices are connected, the system crashes due to lack of input power. With the graphics card, you should also replace the power supply with a stronger one.

I can confirm that there is a free slot for an optical drive, or I'm not that savvy, but I assume the connectors for optical drives are the same as for hard drives, aren't they? It also has a 4 pin Molex slot which I will use for the USB 3.0 controller card. I still have to get the extension cable. To finish off the review, I have to tell you that I had problems at the beginning with the WD 10EZEX hard drive that is installed as standard. Shortly afterwards it stopped working altogether. Unfortunately, I made changes to the computer beforehand, so the warranty is gone. Now I have the old 500GB hard drive from the previous PC in it and everything is running stable and well.