1: Preamble
With the increasing performance of CPU and GPU, it is no longer a problem for the game to cope with most of the games on the market. Instead of focusing on the pursuit of performance limits, people have more pursuit of the appearance, workmanship and comprehensive quality of laptops. Manufacturers can no longer use a mold as before. HP is clearly aware of the change in the market. Shadow Genie II is its best response to users. Let's take a good look at its capabilities in this evaluation.
2: Hardware specifications
This time Love to play computer games The second generation version of Shadow Genie is i7-6700HG processor+GTX965M graphics card+8GB DDR4 internal test+128GB M.2 SSD+1TD mechanical hard disk. The size of the display is 15.6 inch FHD IPS display, and the weight is 2.03KG, which can be said to be the standard configuration of the current mainstream game books.
3: Appearance introduction
The A-side of Shadow Fairy II adopts the skin like material. The middle of the A-side is a green Voodoo logo, which is matched with black and green. It is low-key but not sexy. The only disadvantage is that the skin like material will sweat with the increase of use time,
The thickness of the second generation of shadow elves is 2.45cm, which is satisfactory in the game book. The fuselage frame has been narrowed, and the visual effect will be much thinner.
From left to right on the left side of the fuselage are Kensington MicroSaver lock slot, USB2.0 interface, USB3.0 interface and 3.5mm headphone jack.
From left to right on the right side of the fuselage are the all-in-one SD card reader, USB3.0 interface, HDMI interface, RJ-45 port and charging interface. The interfaces are very complete.
The tail of the fuselage has a large area of heat sink, which, together with the built-in double fan design, can provide excellent heat dissipation performance.
The D side of Shadow Fairy II also uses skin like materials, with a large area of heat dissipation holes in the middle.
The upper and lower parts of surface D are equipped with a large area of rubber pads. In addition to effectively preventing displacement, the high plastic pads can also provide greater air volume for the air outlet.
The screen can be opened and closed, and the maximum opening and angle of the screen can be 145 degrees.
The second generation of Shadow Fairy is equipped with a 15.6-inch FHD IPS UWVA anti glare display screen. As its name implies, it is a fog screen. Although it can effectively prevent glare, it also affects the maximum brightness of the screen to a certain extent.
The B side of the second generation of Shadow Fairy is made of frosted plastic. Unfortunately, the Shadow Fairy does not use the current mainstream narrow frame design.
The top of side B is equipped with a camera and microphone.
HP LOGO is printed on the bottom of side B.
The C side of Shadow Fairy can be said to be the highlight of the whole machine, and the large area color contrast design is quite eye-catching.
The power key is arranged on the upper left side of the C surface, which can effectively prevent accidental touch.
The top of the B side of Shadow Genie II is a large area of bar speaker openings. It should be noted that Shadow Genie II supports B&O sound effects, which can be adjusted according to the use environment, and the sound quality is guaranteed.
The touchpad equipped by Shadow Elf II is not large, and its surface is frosted. The left side of the touchpad is printed with "OMEN" and "Play Time" stickers to highlight its game pedigree.
B&O LOGO and related hardware stickers are printed on the right side.
Shadow Fairy II adopts a floating island full size keyboard with three layers of UV coating on the surface. After using it for a period of time, we can see that its oil resistance is very good. Secondly, the bottom of the keyboard is added with a metal plate, which has good resilience, and the excellent key stroke ensures that each stroke is fast and clear.
Keyboard light effect display:
4: Screen test
The test software used in the screen test is CalMAN 2016, and all tests are based on 100 nits and 6500K color temperature.
The maximum brightness of the second generation of Shadow Fairy screen is 191.01 nit, the contrast is 1065:1, and the color temperature is 7292K. From the test results, we can see that the brightness of the screen is low, which also confirms the author's previous guess. Because of the influence of the fog screen, the brightness will be greatly reduced, so the fog screen can be described as a good or bad solution. The color temperature of 7292K also means that the screen of Shadow Fairy is cold. It depends on your preference for color temperature.
The screen color gamut of Shadow Genie II is 64.6% sRGB. After passing the 104 color test, we can see that the average deltaE is 3.6, and the maximum deltaE is 20.2. On the whole, the overall performance of the screen of the second generation of Shadow Fairy is in line with the standard. It is disappointing that the wide color gamut screen is not used and the brightness is low due to the fog screen.
5: Performance test
HP Shadow Genie II has Windows 10 Home Edition preinstalled in the factory, and this test is based on Windows 10 Home Edition.
In terms of CPU, Shadow Genie II is equipped with a core i7 6700HQ, 4 cores and 8 threads, with a TDP of 45W and a maximum Rui frequency of 3.5GHz. The memory is equipped with 8GB, and the specification is DDR4 2400MHz.
The graphics card is NVIDIA GTX965M, and the video memory is 4GB. Mainstream specifications can be used, but there are many gaps compared with the latest 10 series graphics card.
The second generation of Shadow Genie is equipped with a Samsung SSD as the system disk, with a capacity of 128GB. The main attention is that it uses the SATA protocol, so there is still a gap between its performance and that of SSDs using the PCI-E protocol.
PCMark 8 Home conventional 3.0 scored 3155.
PCMark 8 Work conventional 3.0 scored 3281.
3DMark scored 5320 points in running Fire Strike.
3DMark scored 2716 in Fire Strike Extreme.
The score of 3DMark running Fire Strike Ultra was 208.
In Cinebench R15, OpenGL is 90.9fps and CPU is 676cb.
6: Heat dissipation and noise
It should be noted that the heat dissipation test is conducted at room temperature of 20 ℃ (plus or minus 1 ℃).
The CPU temperature is 35 degrees in standby mode.
After 10 minutes of baking, the maximum temperature of CPU under full load is 59 ℃.
35 degrees in GPU standby mode.
After 10 minutes of baking, the maximum temperature under full load of GPU is 75 ° C, and the frequency is stable at 1252.8MHz, which is worth praising.
The temperature of surface B is 37.7 ℃ in standby mode.
The D surface temperature is 36.3 ℃ in standby mode.
After 10 minutes of baking, the highest temperature of surface B appears in the lower right corner, which is 42.1 degrees.
After 10 minutes of baking, the maximum temperature of surface D is 53.8 ℃. Through the test, it is found that the second generation of Shadow Fairy performs very well in terms of heat dissipation by virtue of its large-area air inlet, air outlet and dual fan design, and users will not feel obvious heat when playing games for a long time.
In terms of noise, the noise measured under standby mode is 44.3dB.
The noise under full load is 63.6dB. At this time, the ear can hear the sound of the fan, but it is not obvious. It is excellent in terms of the dual fan design.
7: Summary
As the star product of HP in the game book, the target users of Shadow Genie II are still very obvious, that is, the game players who are pursuing something. In short, it is a consumer who will not blindly pursue the ultimate performance and will pay attention to other aspects of the product. With the passage of time and the development of the market, such consumption concepts will gradually become the mainstream. Through evaluation, we can find that the second generation of Shadow Fairy has three highlights: eye-catching design, excellent workmanship and mainstream hardware specifications. These all confirm the above statement. Although it is not perfect, it is still very competitive in today's market with a reasonable price. If you have the idea of buying a game book recently, you may want to know about Shadow Elf II.
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