What about HP WASD ax016tx game book?

Last October, Hewlett-Packard launched a new game called Shadow Elves, which officially proclaimed the veteran computer maker to the market for cost-effective gaming. After more than six months, HP launched the Shadow Wizard II-Generation Game book, thereby continuing the new game this series.

First, the appearance evaluation

1, Shadow Elves II in the hardware upgrades, while the design also adopted a new mold, and in the mold design for reference to some of the HP Omen game design elements, so as to bring users a "new" shadow Elves. Let's go through this review to find out what kind of a product this shadow Elf II is.

2, this May HP launched the Shadow Wizard II-Generation game, with excellent design and strong hardware configuration quickly by many game players, but also won the ChinaJoy 2016 Black Gold Game Terminal Product Award. The red version of the first edition uses the classic red-black color scheme, which is as calm as possible. And from the beginning of the attention of the Elves Green version of the Shadow Elf II also recently came to our evaluation room, in addition to the return on color, its hardware configuration is also very balanced, the specific performance of how we look together.

3, the whole machine in the appearance of the design and the start of the shadow red version of the same, belong to a more beautiful category. The machine in the corners of a large number of arc transition, for the black calm style to add a sense of smart, the bottom radian range is larger, like a pebble, in the visual more friendly, while fitting the palms enhance grip feeling. The narrow four-week also makes the machine among the thin game of the ranks, the rear wide cooling out of the tuyere seems to roar its game performance of the Intrepid.

4, I think the C-plane design can embody the essence of "Shadow Elf". The first sight of the C side was attracted by its dynamic visual sensation, as if the force had sprung up in general. C-Plane affects the visual area mainly divides into three parts: the Upper hollow speaker area, the Middle keyboard area and the lower Palm support area, the latter two is the main visual influence source. The position of the palmrest is designed with a honeycomb shape consisting of many green positive hexagonal, to the keyboard area direction color gradually reduce light, the strength feeling mainly originates from this; the keyboard is a green button, black coating, the visual composition of the palm of the green honeycomb, and the continuation of the top of the triangular hollow is a barrier, Hold people's vision tightly in the next two parts. This design is very clever atmosphere, let people have the impulse to play the game.

5, interface design, Shadow Elf II due to the fuselage part of the more thin, so did not configure the optical drive. As can be seen from the above two images, the fuselage has a secure lock hole, 2 USB 3.0 connectors and 1 3.5mm headphone microphone jacks on the left side, and a reader, 1 USB 3.0 connectors, 1 HDMI connectors, a RJ-45 Ethernet port and a power jack on the right side of the fuselage.

In terms of extensibility, Shadow Elf II is no different from the previous generation, except that the optical drive is missing. Also worth mentioning is that a generation of fuselage on the right side of the heat sink design has been completely discarded, in turn to the back of the fuselage, which makes the design more reasonable heat.

6, the machine cooling module for dual-copper pipe Double fan, after the design of the tuyere, in the use of the process of stroke more sufficient, the effect of heat dissipation is obvious. Interface, the left side of the fuselage is the lock hole, USB2.0, USB3.0, headset; the right side of the fuselage is adapter interface and LED, HDMI, USB3.0, hard drive indicator, SD card slot. On the whole the Machine interface in the number of relatively perfect to meet the day-to-day use.

7, display, Shadow Elves II still use the 15.6-inch 1080P Full HD display, IPS panel brought a wide perspective and a good visual experience, color restoration is more accurate, saturation is good, this is the game this product is the most basic configuration.

8, the machine keyboard for the island-type keyboard, the key body is green, the top has a black matte coating, the letter labeled Green. The overall feel in the upper and middle level, the key and the distance between the appropriate, the key is moderate, the key is gentle, feedback quickly with the hand, the experience is very good. At the same time for the backlight keyboard, backlight for the green, moderate brightness, in the evening when the use of very beautiful, a lot of visual experience, as well as the number of key areas for easy input. The top left of the keyboard is the power button with a green LED.

Second, the boot test

1, the delivery test models in the hardware configuration of the Intel sixth generation Skylake platform of the Core i5 6300HQ processor, with 8GB memory, 1TB 7200 rotating mechanical hard disk +128GB SSD, graphics, the use of the Intel HD 530 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M Standalone video card. Let's take a look at the actual performance of the machine by testing:

2, the machine equipped with the Intel Core i5 6300HQ processor, based on the 14nm process technology, the core code for SKYLAKE-H, using four core four thread design, the initial frequency of 2.3GHz, can be Rui-frequency to 3.2GHz, shared three cache for 6MB, the highest TDP (power) for 45W, The minimum is 35W.

3, we use Cinebench R10 to test the performance of this processor, its single core is divided into 6411 points, four core points as high as 21285 points, the overall performance is very good, should be all the current mainstream applications can provide excellent operational performance.

4, HP Shadow Elves II upgraded Nvida GeForce GTX 960M, it uses GM107 Maxwell Core, with 640 flow processor, the core frequency of 1097MHz, video memory bit wide 128bit, memory capacity 2GB, memory type for GDDR5, This video card can be said to be our old friend, then Shadow Elf II can play the full performance of this video card?

Advantages :

The advantages of the machine is obvious: International brand + mainstream game configuration (standard pressure i5, gtx960m) + Cool Mold, the price is only 4999 yuan. This configuration on the other major brands in the basic 6000 up and down, the price of the face of a large blue sky, friends Tatsu Mold OEM Small brand is also competitive, this is the main reason I buy Shadow Elves second generation.

The machine is very much like after the hand, the first is the appearance of beautiful, Shadow elves for the first time using omen mold, compared to the first generation more imposing, and visually very thin. A similar abrasive treatment is used on the surface of the machine, feel good, looks also more profound, and Shadow Elf Voodoo logo is very personality, is definitely a plus sub-item, there is a point plus the green backlight keyboard, it is too beautiful, especially in the evening to play the game time, long green very cool, This is also the main reason why I choose the green Edition.

The second is to configure the relative mainstream, its use of I5-6300HQ four core processor, with the i7 performance of the M suffix, the most important or gtx960m graphics card, play the game is really very cool, LOL 1080P full high basic maintenance of more than 100 frames, I also used to play the Tomb Raider 9, The frame number is 60 frames up and down, quite smooth.

Finally, in accordance with the usual practice with Lu Niang on the line of entertainment run points, the final score of more than 140,000, the end of the middle of the game notebook, such as my student party to play a game or more suitable. And one thing that's really good is temperature control, although it is the game, Shadow Elf second generation thickness is relatively thin, before buying also worry about the heat dissipation problem, but the actual experience found that the entire machine's heat dissipation level is quite good, no temperature on hand on the machine so can not know the game temperature value, But the body sense temperature is very good, the heat control is quite good, even if playing a large single game also did not feel the temperature is too high, and fan noise can be accepted, the basic control in a relatively quiet state, with headphones to play the game is not to worry about.

Several other aspects of the machine also performed well, for example, 1080P Full HD screen, visual angle is very good, we look at the video without worrying about the angle of the problem, there is standard SSD, speed is good, read and write speed can reach 500m/s, 200m/s degree, in the daily use, Especially when you open the software very quickly. On the whole, I am very satisfied with this shadow Elf second-generation, 4999 Yuan to get a very happy, use down also can feel the excellent machine, very happy. To sum up, the Shadow Elf second-generation has outstanding appearance design and sufficient hardware performance, in the game experience to achieve the international manufacturers more than 6000 yuan standard, for me such a student party is simply value.

Disadvantages :

To tell the truth, the machine's shortcomings are indeed not much, if the hard to find a word, the standard 4GB memory is a, but considering the price is acceptable, can be bought on the second-hand east of the loaded up, currently have this plan, is to select the right memory, plus after the perfect. Of course, there may be some people who have a certain bias towards the plastic casing of the machine, but this for me is not a disadvantage, you know, the game is composed of all metal, in playing the game when the thermal efficiency is high, but the performance of metal thermal conductivity instead of the body feel the temperature up, will make people feel hot, So the plastic casing is acceptable to me and is a neutral point of view here. Big

Home knows the design of the machine is good, but C-side position of the label is not very like, because I still prefer a clean point of design, WASD logo can also be accepted, the most acceptable is the right hand dragged office stickers, and not free also posted on the impact of the impression, I have intended to take off the mark, I believe that the reason for labeling is definitely related to Microsoft, so for HP I am still sure, this point to Microsoft's bad comment.

The memory-splitting machine mentioned earlier, the machine has a little design is, to add memory, need to remove the entire shell, before the use of the machine is a small buckle can add memory, so the first contact with this design is a bit not used to add memory when back to a little trouble, but this design is still understandable, After all, this design can strengthen the strength of the machine, manufacturers do not want to disassemble the computer, the professional dismantling will damage the machine, I also have this intention, ready to take the memory of the sale, so that after the sale to add. If added memory, the Shadow elves can basically say that the second generation of perfect, for such a machine, I really do not say what a big problem, can only wait time to test the durability of the machine.