Low-key appearance, wild performance HP Shadow Wizard 4 th generation evaluation

IT 168？ HP Light Wizard 4th Generation High Performance Game Evaluation This book is designed for consumers who need to balance their studies/careers and games. It comes from a big brand with a low price, which is lighter and more portable than other game books with the same price. Its introverted appearance and good configuration are the highlights to attract a large number of users.

On May 30th this year, HP released the 4th generation high-performance game book of Light and Shadow Elf series. In my personal opinion, the appearance of the new product has changed a lot compared with the previous generation (the fuselage is more angular and attractive), and it has maintained the strength of being restrained and low-key. In addition, in terms of configuration, the fourth-generation game book of Light and Shadow Elf is equipped with the eighth-generation standard pressure? Core? The processor also brings the configuration of GTX 1060 Max-Q+72% color gamut 144Hz esports screen for users with fever level. Below, let's take a closer look at this new product and see what highlights it has.

Appearance: the "2.0 upgraded version" with low-key personality is full of domineering!

With the expectation of a large number of fans and players, this year's HP Light and Shadow Elf 4th generation game has been upgraded. First of all, its color matching concept is the same as that of the previous generation. The main color of the fuselage is more versatile and low-key black, and there are many choices of auxiliary colors: in addition to the original turquoise blade version and Bai Bing front version, there is also a purple dawn version. These three color matching styles are available for players to choose from.

The logo of the notebook, the color matching of the keyboard and the foot pad complement each other and are full of fashion sense.

▲ Left: Dawn Edition Right: Green Blade Edition

The biggest change also comes from the A side of the notebook. In addition to the black matte paint, the A-side is also designed with bevel trimming around it, and there are two slightly upward polygonal waistlines at the bottom. The overall look is much more three-dimensional than the previous generation, highlighting some angular sense.

It is worth mentioning that the hinge of the notebook has also been changed into a central integrated hinge, which can leave a larger area of heat dissipation space at the bottom, reduce the volume of the notebook, and easily open and close the screen with one hand.

Double Rear Cooling Air Outlet: Farewell to Hot Air "Blowing Screen"

The 4th generation game of HP Light and Shadow Wizard has adjusted the cooling air outlet to the rear, one on the left and one on the right, and the area is not small, so the exhaust resistance will be smaller, and a large amount of hot air in the fuselage can be discharged more quickly.

144Hz refresh rate 72% color gamut screen: easy to play a new realm.

In order to let enthusiasts identify the enemy more accurately and find the enemy's position more quickly, on the screen, the fourth generation of Light and Shadow Elf, the medium and high configuration version, is loaded with an e-sports screen with a refresh rate of 144Hz, and can reach a high color gamut of 72%. In addition, the screen adopts the design scheme of ultra-narrow frame, so although the fourth generation of light and shadow elves is equipped with a screen of 15.6 inches, the body size is close to that of a notebook of 14 inches.

In the "Display" menu of the system, we can check whether the screen is a high refresh rate version of 144Hz, and if so, we can adjust the refresh rate to 144Hz.

The fourth-generation e-sports screen of Light and Shadow Wizard can reflect 144Hz images per second, which is twice that of ordinary monitors. When I slide the screen up and down to browse the web page, I can obviously find that the trajectory of the text, pictures and other content in this web page will be smoother and less jitter than that of the 60Hz screen. When I casually open a task window on my desktop and drag it to move rapidly, I have the same experience, and the contents in the window are more clear and identifiable.

SRGB color gamut space is widely used in web pages, games, graphic design, photography and other fields, and is the mainstream color standard at present. In order to more accurately restore the colors that designers originally wanted to express, the display we used has a basic threshold, which is to reach the sRGB range of 100%.

We tested the screen of Shadow Wizard 4 with Starscream 5 color calibrator, and the results show that its color gamut can reach 98% sRGB color gamut, while 99% sRGB color gamut is basically 72% NTSC color gamut, so the actual performance of the screen is consistent with the official nominal.

The weight of the fuselage is about 2.2KG: you can go into battle lightly!

This time, the fourth generation of HP Light and Shadow Wizard will control the weight at 2.27kg, which is a light model of the game, which is only equivalent to the weight of 4 bottles of cola.

"Travel weight" plus power supply is 2.9 kg.

The C-plane adopts an integrated brushed steel process panel, and the appearance of the upper horn changes from a perforated grid to an integrated three-dimensional geometric design, which produces a diamond-shaped visual effect through the reflection of natural light, which is very beautiful.

The stereo is still matched with Danish Royal B&; O sound, the sound quality is definitely much fuller than the general game book.

Both the power-on key and the keyboard backlight use the same color scheme as the fuselage, which complement each other.

Thin and rich interface.

In terms of interface, there are two USB3.0 and an SD card slot on the left side of the fuselage.

The right side of the fuselage is equipped with 3.5mm headphone jack, RJ45 cable jack, HDMI jack, USB Type-A and a Type-C jack, and it supports shutdown and charging functions.

Before it is too late, let's take a look at its performance.

Game experience: 50 frames of "eat chicken" with extremely high picture quality.

Configuration, this one in our hand is equipped with the eighth generation? Core? I7-8750H six-core 12-thread processor, 3G graphics card designed by GTX 1060 Max-Q, 8G DDR4 memory, 15.6 inches 1080P 72% color gamut 144Hz screen. Let's take a look at its actual parameters and performance.

We tested HP Light and Shadow Wizard 4 with three popular 3D game masterpieces, Jedi Escape, Wizard 3 and Call of Duty 14, and kept it in the same game scene, tracking the game frame data for 5 minutes under different screen settings.

According to the game test data of 5 minutes, the 4th generation game of HP Light and Shadow Elf in our hands can basically run "The Great Escape of the Jedi" in the extremely high quality mode of 1080P. If you want to experience a silky game with more than 60 frames, then we can reduce the picture quality to medium-high so as to give full play to the advantages of the 144Hz screen.

In Call of Duty 14, an FPS shooting game with the theme of World War II, even if the picture quality is fully open, the fourth generation of light and shadow elves in our hands can still run at an average speed of 77 frames per second. If the picture quality is properly reduced to medium, it is easy to break down.

Wizard 3 is an open-world game, built by REDengine3 engine. Players can control the protagonist to seamlessly cross the whole world, and the picture performance is also very beautiful. It can be said that it was once a masterpiece of the "graphics card killer" game.

Basic performance test: Multi-core processing performance is 30% higher than the previous generation.

In Master Lu's test, the fourth generation of HP Light and Shadow Elf won the "Chicken Eating Certification" with a total score of 296,000 points. Machines that can achieve this score can basically kill all the games on the market at present.

CPU:

Judging from the parameters read by CPU-Z, the eighth-generation i7-8750H carried by the fourth-generation HP Shadow Wizard in our hands still adopts the process design of 14nm, and the thermal power consumption of TDP is 45W, but the number of cores has been greatly upgraded, from the previous generation's 4-core 8-thread design to 6-core 12 thread, and the third-level cache has been increased to 9MB, so the comprehensive performance has been greatly improved.

Thanks to the advantage of increasing the number of cores, the multi-core performance of this i7 8750H in the 4th generation of HP Shadow Wizard can reach119cb, which is about 18% higher than the desktop version of i7-7700K processor with mainstream fever level.

GPU:

Max-Q is the best graphics card design scheme for thin and light notebooks. By reducing the thermal power consumption of the graphics card TDP, the cooling space design of the notebook can be greatly reduced, so that the thin notebook can be easily equipped with high-performance graphics cards, and the performance is not much different from that of non-Max-Q design.

The GTX 1060 Max-Q of HP Light and Shadow Wizard 4th generation is manufactured by 16nm process, with GP 106 core and 3G GDDR5 graphics card. Memory bit width 192bit, memory bandwidth192.2gb/s/s.

In the fire attack limit mode, the 1060 Max-Q graphics card of HP Shadow Wizard 4 scored 4656Feb, which is about 26% higher than that of GTX 1050Ti graphics card, but only about 1060.

Heat dissipation:

Let's use AIDA64 to test its CPU, graphics card and hard disk under 100% full load. During the 10 minute full-load stress test, the graphics card always runs with full blood. From the actual experience, I have played games for a long time, and there is no phenomenon that the picture is stuck or the frame drops quickly.

Summary:

I think the appearance upgrade of HP Light and Shadow Wizard 4th generation game book is a very successful case. A little waist line and oblique angle design increase the sense of angularity, which can better highlight the personality of high-performance game books, but at the same time, it properly grasps this degree without losing the low-key sense it should have under its positioning (for business people and students who like to play games).

In terms of configuration, in order to meet the game needs of enthusiasts, this generation of light and shadow elves has a 144Hz screen, a 72% color gamut, and a 1060Max-Q graphics card configuration style, which is more intimate. Eighth generation? Core? Thanks to the blessing, it is not a problem to eat the highest quality chicken. It should be more appropriate to eat the mainstream games with medium and high quality in the next three to five years.