[PConline stand-alone evaluation] Shadow Elf series is a new cost-effective game series introduced by Hewlett-Packard in 2015, has a strong configuration, cool appearance and good price, has always been a good reputation, and today, HP has just released At the meeting, a new generation of Shadow Elf family - Shadow Elf III was announced.
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Shadow Elf III has a complete optimization in terms of appearance and scattering compared to its predecessors - inspired by the cool sports car design, unique triangular design style, it is only in appearance, it is better than many games. On the one hand, while controlling the heat dissipation of the lifeblood of notebooks, the Shadow Elf III has more than half of the entire D-side chassis, in addition to the heat-dissipation openings around the body, which is transparent to the circulation of air inside the airframe. - Compared to the Shadow Elves II generation, this undoubtedly reflects the designer's pursuit of perfection.
Deep and elegant designAppearance, Shadow Elf III continues the series of red and black color, Kevlar fiber texture with metal wire drawing design, it is both deep and elegant, very beautiful.
The classic OMEN logo is printed on the bottom of the A side. The rounded font plus the right position design makes this logo perfectly integrated with the entire A surface, and it is harmonious and unified.
On the A side and the D side, there is a more classic "voodoo" sign printed on it, which has a religious sense of ritual (in fact, I always thought it was a raccoon).
At the bottom of the display, the connection between the A side and the C side also incorporates the "voodoo" logo and the word OMEN.
As for the hardware, the Shadow Elf III is equipped with Intel's seventh-generation Core processor i5-7300HQ, 8GB of DDR4 memory, the frequency is 2400GHz, as for the discrete graphics, equipped with the GTX 1050Ti, 4GB of memory and 128 Bits wide The combination of a 128GB SSD+1TB 7200-rpm mechanical hard drive also provides a good balance between performance and capacity.
On the interface side, the Shadow Wizard III is equipped with a DP interface, an HDMI interface, a network cable interface, a USB 3.0 interface, a USB Type C interface, and a headphone + microphone interface on the left, and on the right, it Two USB 3.0 ports and an expansion card slot are prepared for the player.
At the same time, the Dark Shadow Gen III game is also specially equipped with 120Hz high refresh rate, 72% color full HD IPS professional gaming display, with the unique and fully upgraded multi-copper precision heat sink layout of the 10 series games Meticulously and realistically restoring the exquisite image experience of various games, it is no longer “barbecueâ€, and all sorts of details and innovations are to create a more perfect immersive game experience!
Compared to other games, this notebook has a large damping of the rotation axis, even if the screen is opened to the maximum angle, the screen will be very stable after opening, and will not shake, and such a large opening and closing angle is also in the game Not very common.
In addition, this notebook's touchpad is also very easy to use, and support for multiple gestures is convenient for those who prefer touchpad operations.
On the keyboard side, the Shadow Elves III also made some changes compared to their predecessors. The new mold completely separates the previous generation of compressed arrow keys, while retaining the red backlight design.
There are three gears for the keyboard backlight, one is the backlight full open, the second is only the common keyboard area of ​​the game, and the last is the full backlight.
Of course, the 720P camera naturally cannot be absent. In terms of multimedia, the Shadow Wizard III also selected BANG&OLUFEN's sound system. In conjunction with the Headphone X 2.0 technology, it also provided the player with an on-the-spot surround sound experience.
The appearance of course is the consistent characteristics of the Shadow Elven series, but if this series is only the appearance, it certainly will not be so popular, then what are the highlights of this notebook? Of course, the features and game performance!
On a well-designed keyboard, there is a button with a pattern like a voodoo logo (actually more like an inverted raccoon). Press it to open the OMN command center that comes with the game. This software contains Hardware usage and network booster capabilities, of course, are used to monitor system resource usage.
The network booster, as its name suggests, is used to manage and optimize network resources and conditions. It can not only supervise network usage and assign priorities, but also set up the network. The dual-source function is can.
Of course, this software is naturally for the performance of the game performance, especially for the GTAV this kind of multi-person collaboration online "single sandbox game", good system performance and network performance can naturally make the player is In the game, rather than be caused by the error of Catton, the keyboard can be achieved.
For GTAV this game, setting the picture to high quality is naturally a must, the lighting effects and the detailed rendering of the game are very high, and a variety of gameplay also makes the game more fun.
In the epilogue, because the game is an indoor scene, the number of frames can always be maintained at a very high level. After further deepening the plot, the number of frames to be rendered and calculated suddenly increases, and the number of frames is also slightly affected. , but some decline, but fortunately HP's notebook in the heat and hardware are enough effort, the overall performance is still can be described as excellent, smooth frame number makes the operation has become extremely easy to use three The special abilities of the protagonists... I have played this game superbly as a super hero theme game. Who dares to say that Xiao Fu’s ability cannot match with the Flash?
Now the game manufacturers are often very aware of the hardware, and in order to facilitate the user to set the screen, the major manufacturers have added performance test function in their own games, GTAV test scene changes are also relatively large changes in a number of games Great, great reference value.
The following is the change of the number of frames captured in the test, the number of frames has been floating up and down around 55 frames.
When I first watched the first generation of watchdogs, I was very interested in the core mechanism of the game. The progress of the second generation compared to the first generation is also very large. Of course, this requirement for the hardware configuration is not counted. low.
A major feature of watchdog 2 is the stable frame number. The measured 20 second game frame number changes as follows. In this game, the number of frame changes is relatively large and spans up to 15 frames.
The Wizard 3, which is also known for its stable number of frames, is also very playful. The game is very accurate in determining the movements and injuries, and the martial arts moves are indeed looking for Nordic sword masters to guide and are very professional.
The screen options for this game are very numerous. Each new game has to be debugged for a long time. It's very troublesome. But there is no way. Doesn’t it have a chance for Quint?
The number of game frames actually measured is as follows. As mentioned before, its frame number is really stable.
Never before, everything in this world has its own appearance and intrinsic essence. In terms of games, how does the performance of the game behave? It is the appearance of the outside - and intrinsic, it is the continuous operation of countless microprocessing units. Currents are interspersed between processors, and information and data can be transmitted continuously. What is formed in front of the player is the game. As a new interactive entertainment method, the game is also a platform for many hardware manufacturers to display their own.
The predecessor company of the famous 3DMark series is a famous game developer, so when it comes to performance testing, they also come up with a rigorous approach to game products. Test items are often targeted at different hardware. Environment, Fire Storm this test is also the case, and Shadow Wizard III in this set of tests as shown in the figure, took 1821, 3468, 6433 points, corresponding to the game test for 4k resolution and 1080P game test.
In general, the performance of the game screen often depends on the graphics card and CPU. We know that through the GPU-Z, this notebook is equipped with the GTX 1050Ti, 14nm process technology gives it a 128bits wide and 4GB of memory, its performance strength Geometry can be imagined.
The CPU, this game is equipped with the Intel i5-7300HQ processor, clocked at 2.50GHz, 14nm process technology and 6MB three cache to ensure its performance output.
In the test, the shadow i3-7300HQ equipped with the Shadow Elf III, its performance is not the same as i7-3960X, is a very good result.
In terms of memory, this notebook is equipped with 8GB of DDR4 memory at a frequency of 2400 GHz.
Finally, with the CINEBENCH R15 test, the performance of the CPU and the graphics card were 493cb and 88.04fps, respectively.
The previous generation of Shadow Elves have achieved remarkable results in terms of battery life and heat dissipation. This is one of the reasons why many fans love this series.
This generation of Shadow Elf, in addition to inheriting the series of consistent design style, also inherited the excellent cooling and powerful endurance - first of all heat.
As can be seen from the above two figures, the Shadow Elf III is a lot of effort in terms of heat dissipation, in addition to the thermal outlet around the fuselage, the entire D surface is also nearly half of the place is transparent, which for the air inside the fuselage The circulation is very favorable.
After a full twenty-minute FurMark roasting test, the temperature of the shell of the Shadow Elf III is not very large, especially the part with the heat vent behind it, and you can see that the temperature is well drained. And it feels good during use, with no discomfort.
As for the battery life, the Shadow Wizard III equipped with 67Wh battery can be said that such a large battery capacity is rare in the notebook, for the author of this kind of sleep never leave the notebook, this brings undoubtedly unexpected Surprise - even if the power outage in the middle of the night, do not need to fear that the laptop automatically shut down is how good things.
The results of PCMark 8's play mode battery life test are also very satisfying. In the case of the remaining 20 percent battery power, this game has an instinct of fighting for more than 3 hours. This is awesome!
In the end, with regard to the weight of this game, its bare-metal weight was 2.61kg.
Summary: HP Shadow Elf III inherited all the outstanding qualities of the previous generation, and has outstanding performance in terms of heat dissipation and endurance, as well as performance. The combination of red and black color matching is as good as ever, and 120 Hz high refresh rate and 72% color gamut. Full HD IPS professional gaming display also brings visual impact that is different from ordinary screens. The multi-level backlit keyboard is designed to be very simple but beautiful in appearance. In fact, I like this pure design. Very skillful. In general, HP's game has good value and performance, and the feel of the case is also very comfortable. At present, HP Shadow Wizard III games are starting from the 6th of this year. There are also offers for starters. Interested users can pay attention.
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