Toshiba Qosmio X75 Game This evaluation

Toshiba released the latest version of the Qosmio series X75 game (China will be officially released on July 30, the domestic version of the model is X70). It has the strongest hardware configuration in the series, including a 17-inch Full HD screen, the Intel fourth Daicouri i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 770M graphics card, priced at $1769 (about 10846 yuan) and not very expensive. But is the new Qosmio more worth choosing than the same models as ASUS and Dell Alienware? Let's take a look at its actual experience.

Toshiba Qosmio X75 (Model A7298) main parameter information:

Screen: 17.3-inch 1920*1080 Resolution screen

Processor and graphics card: 2.4 GHz Four core Intel Core I7-4700MQ processor, Nvidia GeForce GTX 770M Independent graphics, 3GB video memory

Memory and hard drive: 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD +1TB SATA Hard Drive

Operating system: Windows 8

Wireless network: 802.11b/g/n wireless network, Bluetooth 4.0

Interface: Four USB ports, HDMI, headset/microphone, triple card reader, Blu-ray burning optical drive

Camera: Front 300,000 pixel

Fuselage size and Weight: 419.1*271.7*30.4-43.1 mm, weighing 3.3 kg

Price: USD 1769 (about 10846 RMB)

Appearance design and details

The overall design of Toshiba Qosmio X75 is similar to the previous, using aluminum fuselage, the top cover part also has the snake skin texture of hidden lines, feel and texture are excellent. In addition, on the X75, Toshiba has moved the "Qosmio" logo from the center of the fuselage to the lower right corner, looking more low-key. Open the notebook, you can see the internal frame-free keyboard design, red backlight and the fuselage side of the metal border echoes, showing a high-grade feeling. On both sides of the keyboard are huge metal mesh speakers, and the power button is designed at the top right of the keyboard and has a red LED backlight. The overall size of the Toshiba Qosmio X75 is 419.1*271.7*30.4-43.1 mm, weighing 3.3 kg, which is lighter than the Asus G750 game book, while the Dell Alienware 17 is larger.

Overall design of Toshiba Qosmio X75 fuselage

As a new generation of notebook products, Toshiba Qosmio X75 also adopted a brand-new frame-free aluminum alloy keyboard design, compared to the prior to more sophisticated and reliable. In addition, the keyboard also has a gorgeous red backlight, giving a strong and menacing feeling. Because the fuselage size is large, so the machine also has a key to have a digital keypad of the full-size keyboard, but unfortunately, the direction key volume is small, the game when the navigation may not be too good. In general, Toshiba Qosmio X75 Keyboard feel is still relatively good, with a more excellent feedback effect, but feel not solid, in our input test can achieve 80 letters per minute speed, but the error rate reached 2%.

Toshiba Qosmio X75 Keyboard Design

Toshiba Qosmio X75 's touchpad is especially useful when playing games because it allows the screen to move up and down without lifting the finger. In addition, the touch of multi-touch operation is also good, you can achieve a good Windows 8 system operation.

Toshiba Qosmio X75 Touch Board Design

Interface, Toshiba Qosmio X75 Performance is very comprehensive, the fuselage on the right side of the design of two USB 3.0 and an HDMI interface, also has headphones/microphone output and VGA interface, the left side of the fuselage is also has two USB 3.0 interface and an Ethernet interface, It also includes a secure latch slot and a Blu-ray burning optical drive. Finally, in front of the fuselage, also designed a triple card reader.

Toshiba Qosmio X75 Fuselage Interface design

Screen display and audio effects

Toshiba Qosmio X75 has a 17.3-inch 1080P Full HD TruBrite LCD screen, but it does not support touch operation, so it can only use the touchpad for gesture operation, but the touchpad response is very sensitive. This screen is very impressive, with very sharp text effects and bright colors, but by contrast, the Alienware 17 screen has the best color balance in this category. On the brightness side, Toshiba Qosmio X75 has a brightness of up to 297 lux, higher than the Asus G750JX and average, but less than Alienware 17 of 307 Lux.

Toshiba Qosmio X75 Screen Display effect

Toshiba Qosmio X75 Built-in four Harman Kardon speakers, the overall sound performance is good, can provide a clean and rich level of sound, but the bass effect is still not obvious, even after the built-in DTS audio processing software has been opened.

Processor and video card performance

The test's Toshiba Qosmio X75 has a 2.4GHz four core Intel Core I7-4700MQ processor, the latest Haswell platform, and a combination of 16GB memory and 256GB SSD +1TB 5400-turn SATA drives, Performance is very powerful. We have more than 10 browser tabs open at the same time running the system to scan and play high-definition online video, no trace of a cotton phenomenon occurred.

In the PCMARK7 performance test, the machine scored 6049 points, surpassing the other two similar models and the average level. Thanks to the hybrid hard drive design, Toshiba Qosmio X75 has a start-up time of only 6 seconds, much better than Alienware 17 of 35 seconds and Asus G750JX 11 seconds. In addition, the hard drive transmission speed is also extremely ideal, the copy 4.97GB multimedia file time is only 33 seconds, the average rate is 154.2Mbps. In the OpenOffice Spreadsheet macro test, the machine only needs 3 minutes 58 seconds to complete 20,000 contact person matching, overall performance is excellent.

PCMark 7 Processor Performance test

It is believed that any player will be salivating over the performance of Toshiba Qosmio X75, which has a powerful nvidia GeForce GTX 770M graphics card, a 3GB of independent video memory, and a Optimus technology that can easily handle large 3D games, You can also use integrated graphics to reduce power consumption at ordinary times. In the 3DMark 11 performance test, the machine scored 4915 points, albeit above average, but slightly below the Asus G750JX and Alienware 172 models.

3DMark 11 video card performance test

So what about the performance of Toshiba Qosmio X75, which translates these running data into real-world game performance? First in the "World of Warcraft" game, the machine can be in high quality mode 1080P resolution to obtain 95FPS frame rate, 1366*768 resolution is 135fps, performance lower than the other two competitive models. In the "Biochemical surprise wireless" High-definition mode full resolution, frame rate of 48fps, also less competitive models. However, the results have been smooth enough to run the game, taking into account the Toshiba Qosmio X75 relatively reasonable price, still acceptable.

World of Warcraft Game run frame rate performance

"The Infinite of biochemistry" game running frame rate performance

Heat dissipation and battery life

Because the fuselage is crammed into a lot of high-end components, you may feel that Toshiba Qosmio X75 will be hot, but actually the cooling effect is good. After 15 minutes of playing 1080P online video, the hottest part of the notebook is near the heat sink, at 35 degrees Celsius, still in the comfort zone, while running a large game, this part of the temperature rise to about 43.3 degrees Celsius, slightly warm, but compared to similar models are still well controlled.

As for endurance, after completing the charge, with 40% brightness connection WiFi, Toshiba Qosmio X75 can achieve about 4 hours 9 minutes of endurance, basically with Alienware 17 equivalent, while ASUS G750JX has longer use time, reached 4 hours 57 minutes, In combination with performance, Toshiba Qosmio X75 's endurance is not as strong as expected.

Software

Toshiba Qosmio X75 has built-in applications, including Blu-ray players, audio enhancements, and some system programs, as well as some less practical news and reading applications. In addition, some of the third-party applications that are common to Windows 8 systems are also built in, and it is worth mentioning that the Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 and Adobe Premiere Elements 11 kits are completely free, or impressive.

Configuration and price/performance

The evaluation of Toshiba Qosmio X75 has a 17-inch Full HD screen, the Intel fourth Daicouri i7 processor, 16GB of memory and Nvidia GeForce GTX 770M graphics, 256GB solid-state drives +1TB 5400 to SATA hard drives, and built-in Blu-ray burning optical drive, the price is 1769 U.S. dollars (about 10846 yuan).

If you need a more cost-effective gaming notebook, you can also choose the same series of X70-abt2g22, equipped with the four core Intel Core I7-4700MQ processor at 2.4 GHz, 12GB RAM, a 1TB 5400 rpm drive, Nvidia GeForce GTX 770M video card and a DVD drive, the price is only 1399 U.S. dollars (about 8577 yuan).

If you need more powerful gaming performance, you can also choose the top model with a price of $1999 (about 12256 yuan), and the processor and other configurations are the same as the version we are evaluating, and the memory increases to 32GB.

As for the competing goods, Dell Alienware 17 has a similar configuration, priced at $2024 (about 12409 yuan), but does not include Blu-ray burning and 256GB solid-state drives, while another ASUS G750JX DB7, configured to resemble Toshiba Qosmio X75, But excluding Languang Drive, the price is 1899 U.S. dollars (about 11643 yuan).

Evaluation Summary

In a word, Toshiba Qosmio X75 is a good design, and has a high-quality sound-painting effect of the game notebook, although the performance of the game does not have the same kind of competitive goods outstanding, but win at a cheaper price, can be said to be a nice cost-effective model. In addition, the overall design of the product is not too obvious deficiencies, but also make it a home audio or video games and a good choice.

Advantages:

· Gorgeous 1080P Full HD screen

· An impressive sexy design

· Very sound

· Strong Overall performance

Disadvantages:

· Keyboard key design is poor

· Slight game frame rate problem