Nowadays, with the continuous upgrading of the IT internet industry, a large number of Internet-based entertainment industries have emerged, and the PC industry has been associated with them. Despite the sluggish comments on the PC market in recent years, we have to admit, The continuous expansion of entertainment industries such as video, games, and VR undoubtedly increases consumer demand for home entertainment. Today Xiao Bian will recommend a home-based entertainment notebook - HP Pavilion 15, HP Pavilion Changyou notebook has a thin, colorful and cost-effective features, the main push the young fashion buying crowd. Let's take a look at the specific performance of the aircraft.
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Appearance: Silver Fashion, Colorful Portable
Get the first impression of the HP Pavilion 15 is the exquisite fashion, in order to pursue better visual effects in order to improve the grade, the machine A surface with aluminum alloy material, after anodized color plating process, the color fully reflects the metal Texture and taste, simple yet stylish and refined. A surface is very comfortable to touch, the metal shell is strong and wearable, but also has the advantage of good ductility.
The prototype color we got this time is Star Sky Silver, and the other color is Champagne Gold.
If you think that after replacing it with a metal material, the weight of the fuselage will increase, and that's really wrong. With a thickness of 22.5mm and a weight of 1.95kg, it gives you the desired lightness and portability. It is a labor-saving choice. Appearance + performance + portability is a notebook product that mainstream users want to buy today.
HP's new Pavilion 15 is equipped with a 15.6-inch LED-backlit display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080, has a good look and feel, although more reflective than other screens, but watching video, the Internet has little effect, slightly adjusted The lower angle can be avoided. The overall tone and contrast are also relatively good, which is a benefit for friends who like to watch movies.
There is a camera directly above the screen and equipped with a microphone to meet the user's video call needs.
The design on the back is very knowledgeable. With a one-piece cover design, it is possible to remove the entire chassis so that maintenance and dust removal can be made easier. Increase the length of the feet in parallel, and keep it like a rock, with a rear radiator. HP CoolSense smart cooling system, the first is to optimize the design of notebook cooling, in addition to the choice of more conducive to the heat of the special material and non-conductive surface, in the parts layout is also carefully arranged, so that the heat in the body in the most smooth way to discharge, And optimize the design of the air flow in the fuselage, so that the cooling air flow away from the main body parts and the user's hands. In addition, what is more important is the word “smartâ€, which can be adjusted at any time according to the environment in which the computer is used. No matter if you use a computer on the desk, bed, or leg, you can intelligently determine the environment and make fan speed control to ensure the cooling efficiency.
The position of the cooling holes of the whole machine is based on the distribution of the heating points of the machine, reasonable and scientific opening, and also ensures that the user does not feel obvious body temperature changes during operation.
The left side of the fuselage has a notebook lock, USB3.0 interface, USB2.0 interface, and headphone microphone hybrid interface.
Below is the SD card reader slot, which is often used by business users.
The right side of the fuselage is equipped with USB3.0 interface, standard HDMI digital interface, RJ45 network cable interface, and power interface.
The layout of the interface is reasonable, while satisfying the user's requirements for scalability, it does not destroy the slimming effect.
Details: Colorful and practical collisions
B & O speaker unit
Next, we brought you the details of the HP Pavilion 15. The preferred keyboard is designed with speakers at the top of the keyboard. It was built by Hewlett-Packard and Denmark's top audio-visual brand B & O, and the overall sound quality output was higher than that of the general notebook speakers. The more obvious improvement, especially in the performance of the tenor.
Bang & Olufsen is the world's top audiovisual brand. Since its founding in 1925 in Struer, Denmark, it has been known worldwide for its audio and video products that are constantly creating superior technology and sensual appeal. Bang & Olufsen has more than 80 years of history. Olufsen has always been dedicated to the use of carefully selected materials and superb craftsmanship. With excellent quality and unsurpassed design, Bang & Olufsen has become the Royal Danish Royal brand.
The upper left corner is the power button, rectangular arc angle design looks very coordinated with the fuselage.
The beautiful wavy line design of the C surface is a bit of a finishing touch. It is like the fingerprint-like beauty, representing your identity, and being comfortable in personality lines. HP said that its design was inspired by Nike's Flyknit series of sports shoes.
The keyboard of the new Pavilion 15 is very simple, there is no extra function keys, the keycap is of a moderate size, the keystrokes are a bit shorter, but it is very flexible, it is to find the kind of knocking feeling, and the surface is due to the matte coating, so the finger The touch is very good.
The integrated touchpad is very beautiful and integrates with the C-surface, but the left and right buttons need to adapt to a certain period of time to be used flexibly. The sensitivity is also very impressive.
Performance: Meet the daily needs of almost all consumer groups
The new Pavilion 15 is based on Intel's sixth-generation Core i5-6300HQ processor, 14nm process, four-core four-thread design, clocked at 2.3GHz, maximum Turbo frequency 3.2GHz, its TDP power design is 45W, single-core processor performance Higher than the i7 fourth-generation low-voltage processor 300 degrees, and multi-core processor performance is higher than the i7 fourth-generation low-voltage processor is nearly doubled, proved powerful performance also shows the uniqueness of the sixth-generation skylake architecture.
AIDA64 test memory cache
Standard 8GB DDR4 memory, DDR4 memory in the hardware specifications, the most significant improvement is a substantial increase in frequency, DDR3 2133MHz need to be overclocked to have been DDR4 native support.
The Nvidia game graphics card GTX 960M is based on Maxwell architecture design, GM107 core, core frequency 1176MHz, memory capacity is 2GB DDR5.
The next step is to test the performance of the CPU and graphics card using CINEBENCH R15. Compared to up to 16 cores in R11.5, the R15 version can support up to 256 logic cores. In addition, the new version also enhances the investigation of shaders, anti-aliasing, shadows, lights, and reflection blur, and the performance of CPUs. The test is more accurate.
From the test results of CINEBENCH R15, we can see that the sixth-generation Core i5 processor i5-6300HQ is higher than the i7 sixth-generation i7-6500u processor's test score and got a 464cb score; and the graphics card, the GTX 960M as a game The graphics card got a FPS score of 67.59. What we are going to do next is testing the performance of the whole machine, mainly through PC mark 7 standard environment and PC mark 8 Home and Creative environment test.
PC mark 7 standard environmental test
PC mark 8 Home environment test score 3276
PC mark 8 Creative environmental test score 4079
From PC Mark 7 and PC mark 8's Home and Creative environment test scores, we can see that the new Pavilion 15 is absolutely capable of dealing with business office and audio/video entertainment. The GTX 960M gaming graphics card can also satisfy most mainstream networks or stand-alone games on the market. For some game configuration games can also run smoothly with reduced image quality and resolution.
Although there is no slam-ready read/write speed like SSDs, it is really good for business and student users.
1080P game measured screen fine running smooth
Crysis 3 1080P default game test
Medium-quality game operation
Medium quality game settings
Medium quality screen shots
Medium quality FPS line chart
The 1080P default setting, the game running under medium quality without stress, the average FPS reached 46.52, is already quite possible, which is to give the GTX 960M graphics affirmed.
Highest quality game performance
Highest quality game settings
Highest quality game screenshot 1
Highest quality game screenshot 2
Highest quality FPS line chart
Compared with medium quality, the highest quality game screen has a higher degree of sharpness, and the fineness of raindrops is relatively high. The game runs smoothly, with an average FPS of 25 or higher. This is a very high value in the game. Therefore, there is reason to believe that many players prefer to choose higher picture quality.
"Far Cry 4" 1080P default setting game test
High-definition game operation
High quality game settings
High quality game screenshots
High quality FPS line chart
The Far Cry 4 game running requirements are also very demanding, HP Pavilion 15 high-definition game running FPS average of 35.875, has been very good, at 1080P resolution, the picture quality is also very delicate.
"Assassin's Creed 5 Revolution" 1080P default setting for game testing
High-definition game operation
1080P game settings
High quality game settings
High quality FPS line chart
Game running FPS integrated histogram
As a super-eating game, many high-end notebooks run Assassin's Creed with 1080P resolution and high quality. The HP Pavilion 15 runs smoothly with an average PFS of 27.8, which is already quite good and the picture quality is very delicate.
Evaluation summary :
Positioning the mainstream, full-featured HP Pavilion Changyou notebook to re-establish the benchmark model, it is simple and simple, interpretation of the current new fashion, to completely subvert the user's universal awareness, 360-degree comprehensive use experience. It's hard to believe that 5,199 yuan will be able to buy such an internal and external notebook, whether as a home, office, or gaming, Pavilion 15 is undoubtedly a very good choice for purchase, cost-effective.