The sign on the top cover is black and bright.
The Shadow Elf game launched by HP this time is based on the classic Pavilion 15 mold. The design of this mold itself is very recognized by users, so it gives people a familiar feeling in the overall shape, and black+green also caters to the characteristics of "shadow elf".
Seen from the side, the fuselage is thicker, which is beneficial to heat dissipation.
For the game book, the body design does not need to be so slim, because the independent graphics card and processor of the game book generate a lot of heat, so it is very necessary to leave enough space for the game book. When some game books on the market pursue thinness, the internal hardware temperature will soar to 100℃, which is really scary.
Adopt 15.6 inch full HD IPS display.
The game book also requires high screen quality. Although the traditional TN screen has a fast response speed, the defects of insufficient saturation and small visual range can not be ignored. Therefore, after the notebook resolution entered the era of 1080P, IPS panels were basically popular. HP Shadow Wizard also uses 1080P full HD IPS display, and 15.6-inch large screen can bring a very good visual experience.
The bottom is provided with a cooling window.
Nowadays, in order to pursue fashion, the bottom of notebook computers generally adopts an integrated panel, and the cooling window is often hidden at the tail of the fuselage. However, this practice is often not desirable for games, so we see that there are many cooling windows on the bottom panel of the Shadow Elf, which ensures that there are enough heat evaporation channels inside the fuselage.
In addition, we can also see that some green rubber pads are designed at the bottom of the shadow elf fuselage to ensure that the bottom of the fuselage is not worn. These details are commendable.
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The keyboard feels comfortable, and the C-plane design is distinctive.
The keyboard feels comfortable and the C-plane design is distinctive.
The design of C-plane is a major feature of shadow elves. A whole panel covers the fuselage, and the keyboard is partially hollowed out to expose the corresponding keycap. Because of 15.6-inch large body, it has a compact numeric keyboard. F 1-F 12 is the function key by default, and the original function of F 1-F 12 can be realized only by pressing the Fn key. This design is also very common now.
The keyboard has a large area and the keys feel good.
Shadow Elf C panel has a smooth surface and good reflection effect under light source. The feel of the keyboard is another commendable place of this product. As a game book, even if you don't need to buy an extra keyboard, the keyboard of the Shadow Wizard itself can meet the requirements of gamers for feel. In addition, the e-sports goddess Kokura once mentioned that the keyboard feels very good after the machine is used, which shows that the keyboard feel of the Shadow Elf is quite reliable in the eyes of professional gamers.
In addition, as a professional game book, keyboard backlight is essential. Shadow elves are also bold in choosing the backlight color of the keyboard, using green backlight. Except Razer, only Shadow Elves are using green backlight at present, so in the expression of personalized elements, Shadow Elves create a good environment for gamers.
With green backlight
Power button in the upper left corner
Although the Shadow Elf is a game book, its design is relatively simple. In addition to the power button in the upper left corner, there are no other redundant physical function keys on the C surface. There is also B & from the upper right corner of C-plane; O as can be seen from the logo, the machine adopts Danish professional B&; O speaker unit, from the actual audio-visual experience, this speaker unit performs well in both low frequency and sound field, and is suitable for creating an auditory atmosphere in games, audio-visual entertainment.
B&is printed in the upper right corner; O speaker unit identification
Shadow Elf's touchpad is large, but its overall shape is relatively flat. The surface seems to be frosted, but it is actually sprayed with smooth paint, so it feels soft and smooth.
The touchpad is relatively flat.
Wrist rest has a honeycomb green gradient decorative texture.
The design of wrist rest is very interesting. It uses a honeycomb-like green gradient texture, and the combination of black and green also conforms to the color characteristics of the "shadow elf" race. It can be seen that HP's new game book has been carefully studied in naming, design and positioning, and every detail reflects the weight of the word "game book".
Finally, let's look at the extensibility of the shadow elves.
First of all, on the right side of the fuselage, we can see a 3.5mm headphone/microphone mixed jack, a USB 3.0 interface, an HDMI interface and a security keyhole.
Interface configuration on the right side of fuselage
Interface configuration on the left side of fuselage
On the left side of the fuselage, you can see the power jack, RJ-45 Ethernet port, 1 USB 2.0 interface and 1 USB 3.0 interface, and you can also see the DVD burning drive. From the interface configuration and layout, the expansibility and experience are good. In addition, although the cooling window of Shadow Wizard is designed on the right, this one optimizes the cooling structure. The air inlet of the product is close to the main heating parts and heat collection places, and the U-shaped structure of double-tube and single fan can help the product to quickly discharge heat and inhale cold air, and heat dissipation itself is not a problem.
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3 The performance of the 6th generation Core is expected.
The performance of the sixth generation Core is expected.
In fact, for the game itself, the most important thing is hardware performance, especially graphics performance, so let's take a look at the hardware configuration and actual performance of HP Shadow Wizard.
First of all, the machine is equipped with Intel's sixth-generation Skylake platform Core i7 6700HQ high-performance processor, with 8GB DDR3- 1600MHz memory, 1TB mechanical hard disk+128GB solid-state hard disk, and the graphics card adopts Intel HD 530 core display and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M discrete graphics card. Let's take a look at the actual performance of the machine through the test:
Overview of hardware configuration of the whole machine
The Intel Core i7 6700HQ processor carried by this machine is based on 14nm process technology, and its core code is Skylake-H, which is designed with four cores and eight threads. The initial frequency is 2.6GHz, the turbo frequency can reach 3.5GHz, the third-level cache enjoyed by * * * is 6MB, and the overall TDP (power consumption) is 45 W. ..
Overview of basic information of processor
We use CINEBENCH R 10 to test the performance of the processor. The mononuclear score is 6602, and the quad-core score is as high as 2645 1. The overall performance is very good, which should provide excellent computing performance for various mainstream applications.
Processor performance test
Comprehensive performance test
Next, we also use PCMark 8 to evaluate the overall performance of the product. The test project is family acceleration, which mainly includes web browsing, word processing, picture processing, video processing, games, etc., which is close to the actual application mode of users. Judging from the final score of 32 14, Shadow Wizard is a notebook product with very good performance, because it can reach more than 3000 points in the PCMark 8 test.
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4 How about the performance of graphics card and thermal analysis game?
How about the performance of graphics card and thermal analysis game?
HP Shadow Wizard is equipped with NVIDA GeForce GTX 950M mid-range independent display, adopts GM 107 Maxwell core, and has 640 stream processors, with a core frequency of 993MHz, a memory bit width of 128bit, a memory capacity of 4GB and a memory type of GDDR3. This graphics card can be said to be our old friend, so can Shadow Elf give full play to the full performance of this graphics card?
Overview of basic information of graphics card
Performance Test of New 3DMark Graphics Card
We use the new 3DMark to test the performance of this graphics card. According to the test results, we got 69,865,438+04 points in the ice storm mode, 20,630 points in the cloud gate mode and 65,438+00554 points in the sky diver mode, and the overall performance was at the middle level of the mobile level.
Next, let's take a look at the cooling performance of HP Shadow Wizard:
Heat dissipation evaluation of CPU+GPU double baking machine
We made a dual baking machine with GPU and CPU for this product. After about 20 minutes, we checked its kernel temperature. Judging from the core temperature feedback given by AIDA 64, the processor temperature is basically around 83℃, which is quite good in game products. In the past, the core temperature of the fourth-generation core platform game products was basically 85℃ or even 90℃, and the heat dissipation efficiency of HP Shadow Elf was obviously well controlled.
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5 Challenge whether DX 1 1 special effects can control high-quality games.
Challenge whether DX 1 1 special effects can control high-quality games.
Software testing can get an objective score, but it can't let everyone know how its actual game performance is. Then we will see the game performance of the shadow elves through actual tests. First of all, the test content we choose is heaven. This benchmark requires high performance of graphics cards and is a common tool to judge the performance of DX 1 1. Let's look at the test.
Turn on the medium surface subdivision effect.
Because it is equipped with a mobile GTX 950M independent display, the performance may be slightly stressed compared with DX 1 1, so we only turned on a moderate surface subdivision effect. Let's take a look at the test process and results:
DX 1 1 special effects require high performance of graphics cards.
Realistic picture details
The average fluency is 30.3fps.
Through the screenshot of the test process and test results, it can be seen that Shadow Wizard can basically meet DX 1 1 with better performance of GTX 950M, and the average fluency of 30.3fps can basically meet the running requirements of DX1/special effects games. If surface subdivision is turned off, I believe the fluency will be greatly improved.