How about the Shenzhou Ares K650S? Shenzhou notebooks are loved by consumers for their high cost performance. Shenzhou’s current notebooks are subdivided into Tianyun, Chengyun, Jingdun, Elegant, and Small Notebook series; Consumers especially love Shenzhou's elegant series of notebooks. Recently, Shenzhou launched another gaming notebook, priced at 7,499 yuan. Below I will review this game console that costs less than 10,000 yuan.
1. Overall appearance
The Shenzhou Ares K650S notebook uses the same mold as the previous K590S, so there is no difference in appearance between the two. essential difference. The machine uses a pure composite material body and uses a large number of straight lines and hard-angle elements, making it quite tough in style. The circular sticker on the top cover also indicates the identity of the machine - God of War HD Edition.
The new K650S is equipped with a 15.6-inch mirror screen, a black chocolate keyboard with a numeric keypad area, and a relatively wide palm rest.
How about the Shenzhou Ares K650S? Review of game consoles under 10,000 yuan
2. Interface layout
Thanks to the larger body, the Shenzhou Ares K650S has quite a lot of interfaces. It provides up to 3 USB3.0 interfaces on the left and right sides (one of which is compatible with e-SATA), 1 USB2.0, a set of 3.5mm audio interface, built-in DVD burner drive, HDMI high-definition output, network cable socket, card reader and security keyhole, the power switch and the rarely used VGA interface are arranged on the back of the fuselage. There are so many interfaces for you to use.
3. Bottom of the fuselage
The Shenzhou Ares K650S notebook adopts a rear heat dissipation and air outlet design. The bottom of the fuselage is very flat, with space for the memory and fans. There are cooling windows.
In terms of heat dissipation, when you open the bottom cover of the K650S, you can see that the machine is equipped with a thick heat pipe for the processor and graphics card, and a cooling fan in the rear left corner of the fuselage (upper right corner in the picture) and larger cooling fins. Combined with the distribution of the heat dissipation windows at the bottom of the fuselage, the cold air should be blown directly to the heat dissipation fins after flowing into the fuselage, taking away the heat and quickly being discharged from the back of the fuselage., the air duct is very short and the method is very direct.
It can be seen from the thermal imager that after the processor and independent graphics card were fully loaded for half an hour, the temperature of the long strip area near the screen at the front of the keyboard was slightly higher, exceeding 40 degrees Celsius, and the bottom of the fuselage The heat is concentrated in the corresponding areas of the memory, cooling fins, processor and graphics card, and the heat dissipation effect is average.
3. Body weight
In terms of size, Ares K650S is consistent with the previous K590S, both 374mm × 250mm × 35.84~43.59mm, slightly larger than mainstream 15-inch models. In terms of weight, the measured weight of the bare machine is 2.756Kg, and the weight including the power adapter is 3.356Kg. It is relatively heavy. It is recommended to use a backpack when carrying it, which makes it a little easier.
4. Screen part
In order to provide an atmospheric and comfortable visual experience, the Shenzhou Ares K650S-i7 D1 notebook directly uses a screen with a resolution of up to 1920×1080 The full HD screen not only displays more content, but also makes the picture more detailed during gaming.
In addition, although this panel is made of TN material, it is still very good in terms of color performance and left and right viewing angles, which is worthy of praise.
It integrates a high-definition web camera with a status indicator light at the top of the screen, and can be quickly turned on or off through shortcut keys to avoid privacy leaks.
5. Sound part
The Shenzhou Ares K650S notebook uses ONKYO speakers from Japan and supports the innovative Sound Blaster Cinema audio technology. After a brief listening test, the maximum volume is a little too low, the low frequency is average, the sound is mild, and the performance is unsatisfactory.
6. Control part
The God of War K650S uses a full-size chiclet keyboard with a numeric keypad area, which is convenient for numeric entry and the use of game cheats.
The keycaps are treated with ordinary frosting and have a relatively average touch. However, in terms of key travel, pressing and feedback strength, it is still quite good. The tapping feel is good and it is more suitable for gaming. ,
The touchpad is located slightly to the left of the center of the palm rest, but compared to the main keyboard area, this position is obviously to the right, and your right hand will press on it when typing. Fortunately, Shenzhou provides a supporting driver, which can automatically disable the touchpad when an external mouse is connected, and can also be used to quickly turn off the touchpad through the Fn+F1 key combination to avoid misoperations.
7. Battery and battery life
The Shenzhou Ares K650S comes standard with an eight-cell lithium battery with a voltage of 14.8V and a total power of 76.96Wh. The capacity is relatively large compared to mainstream 15-inch notebooks.
Generally, the battery life of high-performance gaming laptops is not very ideal. After all, excessive hardware configuration will definitely consume more power. Powermark test results show that in power saving mode, 50% screen brightness, wireless network turned on and connected, the machine can last for 2 hours and 55 minutes, which is slightly longer than the same positioning model. It can play two copies and team PK. Still no problem.
8. Upgrade space
Ares K650S continues to maintain the tradition of dual hard drives since K590S, providing two standard-sized 2.5-inch hard drive bays. One is equipped with a Samsung 840 series 120GB solid-state drive, and the other is equipped with a Seagate 1TB mechanical hard drive, which meets the SSD+HDD matching guidelines for gamers. The memory is two 4GB DDR3 1600, with a total capacity of 8GB, so there is basically no need to upgrade, and the processor can also be replaced.
9. Processor information
The Shenzhou Ares K650S-i7 D1 notebook uses the latest Haswell Core i7-4700MQ quad-core The processor, based on the 22nm manufacturing process, has four-core and eight-thread computing capabilities, with a main frequency of 2.4GHz and a maximum core frequency of 3.4GHz, which is very powerful.
In terms of performance, tested by CineBench R11.5, the multi-threading score of this processor reached 6.36pts, which is a very high score among notebook processors.
10. Graphics card information
The Shenzhou Ares K650S notebook uses the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M independent graphics card, based on the Kepler architecture, with up to 768 CUDA cores And 2GB GDDR5 video memory, the specifications are nearly twice that of the previous generation GTX 660M, which also lays the foundation for providing surging performance. Compared with the GTX 670MX with 960 CUDA, the core frequency of the GTX 765M is much higher.
In addition to the GTX 765M independent graphics, this machine also provides a processor-integrated HD 4600 core graphics card with 20 EU units, which is only used for non-game display, high-definition playback, etc. , not tested here.
The 3DMark 11 test results show that NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M has surpassed the Fermi architecture flagship GTX 675M in performance and also exceeded the number of CUDA cores.GTX 670MX performs quite strongly.
Finally, in the Valley v1.0 test session, at full HD resolution, the final score of the Shenzhou Ares K650S was an average of 34.1 frames. Considering that this test software has almost abnormal requirements on the graphics card, it can be basically concluded that the K650S has strong game performance and almost all DX11 games can run smoothly.
11. Game performance
In terms of games, the author selected "Street Fighter 4", "Resident Evil 6" and "Tomb Raider 9" These three game benchmark testing tools. They all run at 1920×1080 full HD resolution, with vertical sync turned off for Street Fighter 4 and Tomb 9, and the rest are at default settings.
It can be seen that the Shenzhou Ares K650S notebook is quite easy to handle these three games, even reaching the level of mid-to-high-end desktop computers, which is absolutely rare for a notebook.
12. Hard drive
In order to meet the needs of players for both system speed and hard drive capacity, the Shenzhou Ares K650S-i7 D1 notebook uses dual hard drives. Storage solution, the system disk is Samsung 840 solid state drive with 120GB capacity.
Through the random read speed test, we can see that although this solid-state drive uses TLC particles, the performance of 4KB random read up to 15405 IOPS is still quite powerful. As for the lifespan issue that everyone is concerned about, I don’t think you need to pay too much attention to it. Calculated based on the normal access amount of 10GB per day, it will take at least 32 years to completely erase and write 1,000 times!
The mechanical hard drive is Seagate’s 1TB , the rotation speed is 5400rpm, and the average reading speed after testing is 85.4MB/s, which is also ideal.
Summary: As the new Ares notebook, the Shenzhou K650S has been greatly enhanced in configuration. Not only has the processor been updated to the latest model, but the graphics card has also been improved by another dimension. Combined with dual-channel memory, 120GB SSD, and the use of a full HD screen, there are no shortcomings in terms of hardware configuration, and the performance is also very strong, and it can kill almost all games.
The appearance of the machine has not changed in any essential way, and it is still a simple and crude type. As for the price, the current official website direct sales is 7,499 yuan. Although the price/performance ratio is very high, it is not cheap. If you don’t care much about the appearance details of the notebook and just need a gaming notebook with sufficient performance, then you might as well consider this Shenzhou Ares K650S.