We do not increase prices we are good friends - Acer Acer Shadow Knight 3 trial report

Acer Acer Shadow Knight 3

First of all, thanks to the trust of the Avatar Zhang Aunt, let me get this huge number of people's game titles - Acer Acer Shadow Knight 3 - for the first time since the release of this product. After a short period of trial experience, I would like to share my feelings with you. First of all, I have shown that I am a player who only plays with me.

Packaging and design section

The first is the first feeling of removing the outer packing box after receiving the express delivery. The packing is simple, although there is no bright spot, it is solid and reliable. In addition to the computer, the box has only simple items such as a power adapter and a warranty card. However, as a game enthusiast, everyone must have their own mouse, earphone, keyboard, and mouse pad.

A surface

A surface texture close-up

A looks like a metal, brushed handle is acceptable, but the material is still engineering plastics, easy to leave fingerprints gray, but still good care. The two red plastic decorations seem to be light bars but they are just decorations. The shaft part has a metal texture, good stability, but the actual test, from the screen to pick up Shadow Knight 3 is indeed not a very worrying thing, be careful.

Screen border can be a horse carriage

The screen borders... seem to be relatively wide in the current product design trend, although it does not affect use. If you do not turn on the screen, the matte screen looks good.

Full-size keyboard

15.6-inch games, of course, standard full keyboard, feel good, WASD these four buttons have special treatment, feel is not obvious. The effect of turning on the red backlight is good. Sure enough, the lamp is one of the most important attributes of eSports games. The touchpad is relatively large, feels good, and the palm rest is more comfortable, but it is recommended to play the game for a long time or the external gaming keyboard is comfortable.

D surface heat dissipation design

D surface design is relatively simple, the bottom of the rubber foot pad to prevent the normal use of the bottom surface during wear, but also has the function of heat insulation, non-slip. The arrangement of the air intake and air outlet looks reasonable, and so on during the test will talk about the actual performance of the Shadow Knight 3 in terms of heat dissipation.

Sports car design outlet on the back

The outlet of "Coupe Modeling", although it meant a bit of bad street in the past two years, actually looked like the plastic texture was strong and there was not much problem. After running, the hot air was obviously the exhaust pipe.

Right side interface

Left interface

The interfaces on both sides are evenly distributed and the scalability is guaranteed. Because there is no Type-C display on the hand, the Type-C interface is not tested. As a whole, the shadow knight 3's mold can see the shadow of some brands. As a whole, I have given a seven-point evaluation. The law-abiding but full of spirituality is my most pertinent evaluation.

Display section

Due to cost constraints, most game titles in this price category use TN screens with a color gamut of 45% NTSC. The Boeing BOE NT156FHM-N41 selected by the Shadow Knight 3 performs well in response speed, but the actual color and viewing angle are not satisfactory (see the figure below).

The overall color of the screen is cool, gray, and the display effect is so-so.

The cost of replacing the IPS screen is about five hundred yuan. If you feel that there is demand, you can try it out. In actual tests, the display defaults to a cool tone, and it looks a little whiter. This is surprisingly good in some dark game scenes, but it can only be considered as a masturbation and requires more display effect. High friends still upgraded...

Disassemble part

After digging through the machine to see the internal work in advance, I also boldly dismembered the Acer Acer Shadow Knight 3.

All screws are easy to remove

The screw specifications are uniform, all the screws are removed, and the bottom cover is removed. The internal structure is at a glance.

Internal hardware arrangement at a glance

Hardware arrangement list, on the left for the Nvidia GTX1050 graphics card, the right is i5-7300Q, heat conduction through the two heat pipes to the fan discharge, further remove the fan can be replaced with grease and other operations. Here is a digression statement, dismantling the Acer notebook around 09 years is the most painful memory for me playing with laptops for so many years. The main reason is that the dismantling is too complicated. Even if it is only cleaned and replaced with silicone grease, it needs to start from the C side. Dismantling, plus screw specifications are not uniform, it is inevitable that there are several screws do not go back ... ...

SSD hard drive

M.2 hard disk interface + SATA hard disk interface, equipped with SK Hynix 128GB SSD and Toshiba's 1TB mechanical hard drive. The obvious problem is that the protection of the mechanical hard disk is slightly insufficient, and it would be even more reassuring to add a sponge protection cover.

Only one 8GB memory in dual slots

The dual DDR4 memory slot houses an 8GB 2400MHz MgRAM memory, which can be expanded to a maximum of 16GB*2 dual-channel memory combinations. 8GB of single memory can basically meet the current mainstream use needs. High-strength users who want a smoother experience can also choose to expand.

Speaker section

There are still plenty of room around the two speakers. If we can further increase the size of the speakers, I believe it can further enhance its performance.

Network component section

Wireless networking components, Wifi and Bluetooth are integrated.

operating system

The system chose Win10 Home Edition. From the official data point of view, this is also the operating system that is commonly used by Acer's other game products. Pre-installed QQ browser, Baidu input method, according to personal use habits to choose to keep or delete, as a whole is relatively clean, there is no complicated pre-installed, just get the need to bulk install some of the necessary software.

CPU & Graphics

From the CPU-Z point of view, the Dark Knight 3 selected a new seventh-generation standard pressure Intel Core I5-7300HQ, 4 core 4 thread design, the overall performance is good, MaxTDP and desktop version are the same 45W. The single-core performance reached 84% of the i5-6600K. The gap in multi-core performance is not wide. The overall performance is worth looking forward to.

The 1.16.0 version of the GPU-Z still cannot display all the information of the GTX1050. From the official data, the mobile version of the GTX1050 has a standard 16-nm Pascal architecture GP107 low-end core, with 640 stream processing units and 32 raster units. , 40 texture units; frequency, compared with the desktop frequency has been improved (GTX 1050 desktop version is 1354-1455MHz, mobile version is 1354-1493MHz), floating-point performance increased by 0.18TFLOPs. Although 16 ROP units were removed (functions to fill all the pixels into the texture and make the texture finally get the correct performance effect), but the overall memory bandwidth has not changed, considering the frequency increase, the overall performance should be with the desktop version Between Chung Chung.

Next, use CINBENCH R15 to perform preliminary tests on the performance of the CPU and the graphics card. CINBENCH's test includes two items, each for the performance indicators of the processor and the graphics card. The first test content is to use the CPU to render a high-precision 3D image, using single-core single-threaded and all cores and threads to test; the second item is 3D animation for the OpenGL performance of the graphics card.

CINEBENCH R15 specific scores and system information as shown.

CPU and video card in the test with CINEBENCHR15 data comparison score.

Chess score 9173.

From the actual test point of view, i5 7300HQ relative to the i5 6300HQ's improvement is basically in line with the frequency increase, where one must say a word: architecture upgrade is not as good as the frequency upgrade, toothpaste factory reputation, do not know with the process improvement, the next generation of Intel What is the big upgrade?

In the graphics part, GTX1050's performance on 3DMARK11 reached X2697, which is comparable to that of the GTX965M. Theoretically, it can run most mainstream games (some games have high effects and can be tricky, and low-to-medium effects work smoothly). How is the actual game performance? And see below for further testing.

Storage device

The Shadow Knight 3 chose a hard disk combination from SK Hynix's 128G SSD + Toshiba 1T 5400rpm HDD. 128G solid-state hard drive is not out of color, considering the price factor is also acceptable, just install the system and some large-scale software (PS, CAD, etc.) is also considered competent. The only drawback is that the interface of this SSD is SATA III. From the test results, the actual speed is not very satisfactory. If it can be replaced with a PCIE SSD, it should be greatly improved.

HDD part, as a warehouse, this 5400rpm+8MB cache hard drive from Toshiba can meet the needs of most of the users, as a warehouse to place the game will not create obstacles to daily entertainment. Of course, it is worthwhile to point out that the same as the SSD, although the actual speed is not that much difference, but it is still uncomfortable to connect a SATAII interface. Considering the actual use scenario, in the performance test of the hard disk, AS SSD BENCHMARK software was used to perform comprehensive test on the read and write data of the SSD, and the HDD part only used the transmission of large files for testing.

The read and write speed of the SSD can be seen to be not very satisfactory, although I think it is an acceptable achievement under the premise of cost control.

HDD reading and writing test, the overall speed can meet the daily needs of ordinary users.

Thermal test

Finally came to the baking machine part of sang shin (bing) ( (kuang)! Because there is no black technology available, the most common combination of AIDA64+FurMark has become the first choice.

In the room temperature of 28 degrees, using AIDA64 + Furmark double baked test, recorded 15 minutes and 30 minutes baking temperature, CPU maximum temperature of 88 degrees, GPU maximum temperature of 66 degrees, the entire baking process There was no sudden CPU/GPU downgrade, the overall performance was stable, and the thermal performance was superior and trustworthy.

In terms of fans, the fan's sound will not be disturbed during daily use, but the fan noise will increase when the machine is baked, but it won't have much impact during the game. It's not enough to turn up the volume, isn't it? .

Game testing

Based on the level of machine performance and personal preferences, I did not choose to use the Watchman Pioneer game to test certain special graphics cards that require high performance requirements (not to criticize a few major graphics cards here). Shadow Knight 3's actual game performance.

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The image quality settings are shown in the figure above, and Nepal is the game scenario.

Viewing the number of frames recorded by Fraps during the game, the average number of frames can reach 54fps. It needs to be additionally noted that in order to effectively simulate the performance of Shadow Knight 3 in a long game, the number of frames is immediately after the baking machine. The result of the test. In addition, the reason why the highest frame rate is stable at sixty frames is that in the game setting, “frame rate limit” is set to be synchronized with the monitor. In an easy-to-understand manner, the maximum frame number is limited to the monitor refresh rate of 60 Hz. The same 60fps, the significance of this setting is that if the number of frames is higher than the actual refresh rate of the monitor, it does not visually further enhance the gaming experience and thus cause performance waste, which is not only for dianchi. From this result can be seen, the Shadow Knight 3 in the normal use of the situation can smoothly run the highest special effects watch pioneer (rendering 100%), would like to hold a home sucking ass friends can rest assured to buy.

For the 5,000-dollar gaming book, the ability to play big games is the most important, and Shadow Knight 3 did. As the core configuration of the gaming experience, the actual performance of the GTX 1050 with only 2G of video memory loaded by the Shadow Knight 3 has exceeded my expectations of it. Have to say, with the further update of the process and architecture, this generation of Pascal architecture graphics card is indeed a gift to Nvidia players.

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Here, this trial report is nearing completion. Here, I will make a small summary of this trial. The Shadow Knight 3 of this trial has a balanced overall configuration. Some configurations have shrunk but are still in an acceptable range. Their outstanding game performance and cooling system left a deep impression on me. The shortcomings are also objective: First, the display effect of the LCD screen does need to be improved. It also has a greater impact on the game experience. Second, the current situation of GTX 1050 with 2G memory will cause the memory card to burst and cause sudden card failure. machine. However, judging from its positioning, if Acer Shadow Knight 3 can maintain the starting price of 4,999 yuan, it can be regarded as a clear stream produced by the big factory in the 5,000-dollar gaming book; Jingdong Mall is now selling for 5999 yuan, which is indeed high. However, the starting price of 4999 yuan is also left to the player no small expectation - at least when the promotion can have more downside. If you can maintain the price of 4999 yuan, Shadow Knight 3 can be said to be a shy student friend in learning the best game partner.

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