Foreword:
The first notebook that I contacted was the X60. Although Thinkpad was acquired by Lenovo at that time, the excellent stability, human body design, and superior expansion capability left a good impression on me. So that the notebook replacement, but also most of the main Thinkpad, T400, T420s ... ..., are once the hands of the main models. However, during the same period, there were also two experiences with Acer laptops. One time during college, the X60 forgot to stay at home, did not bring it out, used Acer notebooks for a week of roommates, the specific model has been forgotten, give me the feeling that the shell is too cheap, and heat dissipation. The second time was after work, I used the T400 for my parents. I was in urgent need of a machine. At that time, because of Aunt Zhang’s announcement, she took a Acer V5-572G and won 4K5. It took him a year and a half. This notebook gave me the impression that there has been a noticeable improvement in appearance, but the heat is still not enough. I remember playing a LOL in the summer morning. When the temperature was not very high, there was no air conditioning. The result was a black screen and the fan was restarted. The noise is also great. The first two contacts with Acer, should be said that the general impression. Thanks to Zhang Aunt this time, you can have the opportunity to experience Acer's notebook again, or the new Shadow Knight 3 (model: VX5-591G-58AX) that has just been listed.
On December 27, 2016, Shadow Cavaliers 3 appeared for the first time before the audience at the conference of “Gathering the Futureâ€, but the scene did not reveal the specific configuration. Until Jingdong started pre-sale, the mystery was unveiled. The Shadow Knight 3 is also equipped with an Nvidia Pascal 10 Series graphics card and an SSD. So behind these eye-catching hardware parameters, in the end is 1+1>2? How is the experience? Whether Shadow Knight 3 can overturn my original impression of Acer's notebook will be announced for you.
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table of Contents:
First, open box two, disassemble three, screen four, performance five, game six, temperature test and noise test seven, battery life
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One, out of the box
Shadow Knight 3 uses 2 layers of packaging, consistent Acer style, if the outer box is accidentally damaged, the inner box can provide additional protection
On the side of the carton is a nameplate with basic model information, with basic information such as model number, Sn, and Pn, and the outermost box with a tamper-evident label. If you are in a physical store or Ma Yun home, these 2 points are checked. The first point of attention
Shadow Knight 3's inner box with black box and gold font, very angry
On the box, Acer gives specific hardware parameters, ranging from CPU, graphics card to hard disk capacity, memory capacity, and even battery performance. In addition, there is a layer of tamper labels on the inner box
Open the box, filled with special foam filled box, very good protection. Warranty card is floating in the top, visible out of the box.
At first sight see the Shadow Knight 3, I thought the body is metal material. After looking closely, it was not discovered that, in fact, Shadow Knight 3's materials are high-strength engineering plastics, but the use of vertical drawing process, the metal is very strong, really eye-catching.
On the attachment, the Shadow Knight 3 comes with a 135W power adapter.
The overall design, the Shadow Knight 3 and the previous generation of Shadow Knight 2 have a very different, can see the shadow of many other brands, such as ROG, Raytheon or the mechanical revolution, is taking Fashion line, streamlined sports car design, but the main tone of black, supplemented by bright red embellishment, but also the right combination of low-key and unrestrained, take care of the aesthetics of most people.
The maximum opening and closing angle of the screen is about 130 degrees
The back of the Shadow Knight 3 is two similar sports car exhaust vent design, visual tension is very strong, Gaming style is ready to appear.
As a game, Shadow Knight 3 has a very good thickness control. Compared to the game books of Raytheon and Godboat I have seen before, the thickness should be the thinnest.
The screen hinge, in order to match the fuselage, also uses imitation metal design, using silver to enhance visual effects, of course, is actually plastic
Shadow Knight 3's number of interfaces and the overall category of law-abiding, a total of equipped with a RJ45 cable interface, SD card reader, headphone microphone interface, a USB 2.0, two USB3.0 interface (the left side to support the shutdown charge), there is a HDMI interface, and a USB-C (3.1) interface.
In addition, Acer also provides a security lock slot, personal feeling is not particularly necessary, this location if you can provide a larger USB interface, the use should be a little more.
At the bottom of the Shadow Knight 3, there is a wind tunnel entrance, and the double fans will discharge heat from the air outlet hole behind the fuselage.
Shadow Knight 3's internal fan close-up
The C-face of the Shadow Knight 3 basically describes the characteristics of the product briefly.
The Shadow Knight 3 features a full-size keyboard with a full numeric keypad area. What does it feel like, compared with the Thinkpad t450s in the hands now, the individual feels so general, the keys are a bit stiff, and the key process is a bit long. The familiar "WASD" four keycaps have been made with red translucent edging to enhance the presentation of the red backlight after the backlight of the keyboard is turned on. Shadow Knight 3's keyboard backlight has only the on and off options, brightness is not adjustable.
Shadow Knight 3 bare metal weight 2548g, about 5 pounds or so. When back, everyone thinks that the material is plastic, not metal.
With the power adapter, Shadow Knight 3 has a weight of about 6 pounds
Second, disassemble
I always think that when you change your hard drive and root memory, you need to dismember your notebook. It is definitely not a good notebook. In particular, notebooks flaunting the game must know that most people who are willing to toss hardware are also people who love to play games. Now, games are also one of the main driving forces for hardware development.
This time I'm going to use the 51nb commemorative Nanqi screwdriver, which is very easy to use and the quality is good
The first is to remove all the bottom screws, for a total of 14 screws. However, everyone must be very strange, why there are only 13 in the picture, because a screw in the upper right corner of the back can be twisted but cannot be removed. In the end, there was no way to use brute force for a moment and it was successful.
After removing the D side, we can see the entire interior and accessories of this notebook. It should be said that Acer still takes care of everyone's requirements for adding memory or changing hard disks. To remove a D surface, all replaceable accessories can be changed.
Shadow Knight 3 uses a double fan and double brass heat sink design. Relatively speaking, the right brass is finer than the left one. It may be that the Intel 7 Series I5 heat is also OK. I don't know and I7 version is high, is there any difference.
Shadow Knight 3 uses a three-cell lithium battery of 4605/4465 mAh (min/typ) 52.5/51 Wh (min/typ), which means that the battery is about 4535mAh +-0.015%, more accurate expression
Shadow Knight 3 uses a single 8G DDR4 2400MHz memory, leaving a memory slot. If you add one more, it becomes 16G dual-channel, which will improve the performance a bit.
The SSD adopts the Lite-On CV3-8D128, M.2 2280 specifications and does not support NVMe.
Outlet is equipped with soundproof cotton
Third, the screen
The Acer Shadow Knight 3 uses a 15.6-inch 1080P TN panel. According to the AIDA64 information, this screen model is nt156fhm-n41. It is from BOE with a refresh rate of 60Hz at 142PPI and 1080P resolution.
According to the model of this screen, we found relevant characteristics through Duomei. 45% ntsc, certainly let everyone down. However, the test is still going on. What is the actual situation? We will look next.
First use two Nikon D800 official proofs to observe the screen color reproduction capabilities.
Sample 1
Shadow 3's actual screen performance
Sample 2
Shadow 3's actual screen performance
From these two sets of comparison charts above, we should easily draw conclusions. Shadow Knight 3's screen color cast, very serious, in general terms, is white, cold, BOE this screen, in terms of color reproduction, the quality is indeed more general
Next test the visual angle
From a visual angle, I am quite surprised. Originally I saw the TN panel, I already did not hold much hope, but the actual test, the left and right viewing angle is not bad. But in the extreme vision of 170, the color cast became more serious.
If the left and right viewing angles are better than I imagined, then the upper and lower viewing angles are more general. The screen is turned slightly backwards and it is beyond the scope of view.
Shadow 3 grayscale performance is generally, basically the upper left, it is difficult to distinguish
The light leakage in the lower part of Shadow 3 is still serious. What makes me unhappy is that there is a huge highlight in the middle right.
All in all, the shadow 3 screen is a place to lose points. I estimate that Acer's established target users are game users. These people may be more concerned with the fluency of the game and have lower requirements for screen colors. In addition, it may be Acer's own profit considerations. Behind a variety of powerful hardware, some less-concerned projects are abandoned.
Fourth, performance
Performance is undoubtedly the most proud of Acer Shadow 3, using the seventh generation Core i5 processor, 8GB memory, 2G memory, 128GB solid state +1TB machine, graphics card Nvidia 1050. If you refer to bucket theory, then this set of configuration is obviously very suitable, in terms of performance, there is no obvious short board exists.
1, CPU
Shadow 3 uses the standard voltage version i5-7300HQ of the seventh-generation Core architecture KabyLake, based on the 14-nanometer process, with four core four threads and 6MB three cache, the default frequency of 2.5GHz, Core frequency to 3.2GHz, comes with HD630 Display core.
The i5-7300's performance is indeed very strong, in the end is the standard pressure product. In the CPU-z running points, compared with the now hot desktop product i5-6600K, the performance is also worse by about 10%, which is basically the difference in frequency.
2, memory
From the front of the disassemble, everyone knows that the shadow 3 memory is a single 8GB, 2400Mhz specifications. The brand is familiar to everyone and Kingston is the easiest to purchase. It is very convenient to form a dual channel.
As for memory read/write tests, even with 2400mHz of memory, the running score is still slightly worse in the absence of dual-channel support. Of course, this is limited to running points, even if you do not add memory, do not set up dual-channel, that is, the game is slow a few frames, boot a few seconds slow, the impact on the actual experience will not be too great.
3, hard disk
Shadow 3 on the hard disk, using the SSD + HDD this way, solid state hard drive for the Lite-CV3-8D128, ordinary hard drive is 5400RPM Toshiba 1T hard drive, is now the more common way.
The Lite-On CV3-8D128 does not support NVMe but does not support NVMe. However, it basically meets most of the Sata interface SSDs, and read and write is very balanced. Here to add, the first batch of Shadow Knight 3 machines, this 128G SSD and Hynix's products, performance and Lite, there is still a gap, and friends who care about when buying should pay attention.
4, video card
Nvidia seems to be starting with the Ten Series graphics cards. It is no longer divided into desktops and mobiles. That is, everyone can't see the suffix M. Notebook and desktop graphics, that is, the difference between memory and frequency, the performance gap is very small.
Shadow 3 uses Pascal architecture 1050,640 stream processors, the core frequency of 1354MHz, Boost frequency up to 1493MHz, the equivalent memory frequency of 7008MHz, with GDDR5 128bit memory, but the memory capacity is only 2GB.
GTX 1050 graphics card 3DMark FireStrike Extreme mode graphics performance score of 2576 points, FireStrike 5157, test the mobile platform's skydriver to 14448, run points heard, and the previous generation of 965M, very close to the score, basically in 1080P With resolution, there is not much problem in playing medium-high quality mainstream games. Of course, the special effects of some games cannot be fully opened.
V. Games
The main audience of the game is definitely the game player. The main test is based on the game. Let's see how Shadow 3 performs in the game. LOL some online games, their own hardware requirements are not very high, or I have some of the existing stand-alone games
1, first tested is the familiar Wizard 3, using Redengine3 engine engine, NV's special optimization game
Image quality is set to high with a resolution of 1920x1080, which turns off NVIDIA HairWorks effects
Everyone can look at the map. Whether it's a castle with a lot of textures or an island with a lot of fog, it encounters a lot of enemies. Shadow 3 can be maintained at more than 40 frames, and the operation is still very smooth.
However, when you open the NVIDIA HairWorks option, you obviously start to get stuck. At the most serious time, even if you take a few steps, the card can no longer be played. Looking at this phenomenon alone, the 1050 of the Shadow 3 is slightly less than the 960 on the desktop.
2. The big radiation of B
In the case of high-quality settings, the radiation 4 has been maintained at about 40, and the operation process is relatively smooth. The only occurrence of Caton's situation is the so-called map party. In the game, instead of brushing copies of tasks or moving fast, they are constantly browsing around the world map, so that after some time, Caton will appear. Then you must save and restart some games. The reason may be because the cache capacity is relatively small, and the time for this card to appear is much earlier than those of 8G desktop cards.
3, Medieval Warfare
The game developed by the independent developer Torn Banner Studios using Unreal Engine 3 was discounted some time ago, recommended by Auntie, and bought at 7 yuan. Although I don’t know about such a bloody game, I’m not forbidden in heaven.
As a game similar to that of former CS, it is required to say that it is not high, and that it is not low. In a multiplayer room, Shadow 3 is fully qualified and there is no carton at all.
4, toy soldiers war box
The toy soldier war box is a kind of integrated war strategy game. The picture is very small and fresh, but the configuration requirements are very high.
This game is very niche, why did you take it out and test it? Because of this game, I recommend it to my friends before. His notebook is the Thunder 911-E11 game at the end of 2014. The configuration is i7 4710HQ+NVIDIA 850M+8G memory, but the super card can be said to not play completely. The performance of Shadow 3 is very good, but there are occasional Caton, the basic is still very smooth. It can be said that the NV 1050 has improved the performance of previous generations of graphics cards.
Sixth, temperature test and noise test
In this game, there is no doubt that heat dissipation is an important part of the experience. No one wants to face the situation where the player can't hold the keyboard for a while. Of course, he doesn't want to experience the phenomenon of overheated black screen reboot. Because of the temperature of the notebook, and the temperature of the environment in use, it is now winter, the magic of the temperature is below 10 °C. In order to get a reference value that is meaningful for the four seasons, I turned on the air conditioner and set the room temperature at 22°C.
In order to get the laptop running at full capacity, I also ran the AIDA64 stability tool and Furmark. At this point, the CPU and GPU, respectively, from the very first 32 °C and 35 °C, soared to 82 °C and 80 °C, and finally stabilized at 70 °C and 62 °C.
At the time of testing, the sound of the fan was clearly heard. The fans of Diablo III are still relatively quiet, and the silent strips at the outlets also have certain effects. I directed the mobile phone software to the outlet, tested it with a miidio noise meter, and took screenshots at different times. The overall sound did not exceed 50 dB.
When the pager hits, what about the temperature on the surface of the machine?
The first is to start running some small programs, after the standby temperature
In fact, the surface temperature
The apparently hot area of ​​Shadow 3 is centered on the upper middle of the keyboard. It is two big fevers, it is above the CPU and graphics card. After the extreme copying machine, the temperature of the keyboard rose significantly, but there was no feeling of burning, it was still very comfortable feeling. Then for the summer, the air-conditioned room with the same temperature should feel slightly hot.
As for the palm rest, because it is a battery and an HHD, there is basically no heat, and even after the copying machine is finished, the temperature rise is very limited.
Shadow 3 is more controllable than temperature and noise for high-intensity operation.
Seven, life
This part originally wanted to run PCmark8 to test, but something went wrong and I could only test it myself.
In order to test the endurance, I tried 4 times, from full to end. Two of them were taken to the company for ordinary daily tests, connected to Wifi, running flush during the period, running QQ, sometimes doing the following Office, brushing web pages, 2 times from 100% to 5%, and the duration was 3.5 hours. about. This probably gives us a daily battery life. Even with other software, I don't think there will be much problem in 3 hours.
In the other two games, Dota 2 and lol were used throughout the game. From 100% to 5%, they all went up and down in 1 hour and 40 minutes. If you run a stand-alone game to eat and configure, it is estimated that time will be further compressed.
to sum up
Take JD.com as an example. In conjunction with some of the Shadow Knight 3 hardware standards, all games have been screened. The result is that the price of the Shadow Knight is the lowest, and even the products with a price higher than him are not comparable to the specifications of the memory and the hard disk. It can be seen from this that the price of the Shadow Knight is really high.
During the entire trial, Shadow Knight 3 left me a very good impression. Such as the drawing of the imitation metal design, only a small change, let the texture of the entire notebook rose a notch. Another example is the hardware. In the past few years, my friend also bought the so-called game book, but in fact, 5K - 6K, this grade of notebook, video card has always been a hard injury. In order to ensure heat dissipation and endurance, the mobile version of the graphics card has been significantly reduced compared to the same type of desktop. It's a game book, but it's a real game, but it doesn't cost thousands of dollars. The Nvidia on the ten series graphics cards, the first time in the mobile terminal and the desktop end of the direct use of similar graphics specifications, so that this price segment of the machine is no longer furnishings. Shadow Knight 3, during the entire game testing process, was able to run all the test games smoothly under the high-effect settings, and had to say it was a significant improvement. And this notebook's mold design is also more reasonable, fan and cooling capacity, much better than I bought a few years ago V5-572G.
Of course, this is not to say that the Shadow Knight 3 is a perfect notebook. For example, the serious tn screen is a compromise product at a low price, although it does not affect playing games, watching movies or watching web pages. However, I would also like this notebook to do something else, such as the image processing of friends, it is very difficult. But I think there are people in the notebook, because the price of shadow 3 is really high, so buying a replacement screen is also a good choice.
Another problem is that this 128G SSD has a relatively small capacity. Everyone should have the habit of putting games on SSDs when playing games. Now that the game is frequently played in dozens of G, this SSD will be put in two, basically slow. It is estimated that the particles are now rising too much. In the first half of last year, Shadow 3 should be 256G SSD.
Each computer is not worth the value, we must comprehensive performance and price, these two elements, the price segment of 5,000 yuan, no doubt Acer Shadow Knight 3 is a game that deserves everyone's priority.
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