I don't know if you have such an experience. A friend bought a new computer and excitedly reported to you (Hyun) Hi (Yao): "I bought a new notebook, 3060 graphics card can play games." But about other configuration parameters, I can't say it clearly, I only know that it cost nearly 10,000 yuan.
In this case, most of them have done great injustice. Buy a computer to play games, only the graphics card to meet the standard is far from enough. Based on this situation, I would like to briefly talk about what are the hidden pits in buying game books?
CPU graphics card tricks
Customers who are new to game books and who don't know much about computers are the favorite types of bosses and customer service guides. In their eyes, you are no less than those middle-aged and elderly people who buy mobile phones alone, only hear that there is 256G large memory and think that it is high-end and easy to use, and are anxious to take out their wallets. Throw out an i5 or i7 processor and say "This is discrete graphics card". Then you can quietly watch from the side as satisfied as the bright sword "victorious parade".
Discrete Graphics = Can Play Games? Nothing wrong with it. Generally will be fooled by this routine, there is a high probability that you will not buy any serious game notebooks. For example, the low-voltage processor + entry-level GTX/RTX graphics card (probably GTX1650) has now added a new leek machine like the RTX 3050. And those who can't move to hold the Games of League of Legends and PUBG as promotional materials are not serious.
Serious games will certainly not give you any low-voltage version of the processor, at least the chip model will be embellished with a "H" letter, representing high performance. In the routine of these words, you will never tell you what the model of the processor means without asking him, so Xiaobai will simply compare the size of the number. Taking Intel's chip as an example, the i7-11600H and i7-10870H look like the previous ones at first glance.
In fact, the performance of the i7-10870H is a little stronger. Because the 600 and 870 are the specific models of the chip, and the 11 and 10 just mean that they belong to the first few generations. In terms of processor iterations, it is now the 12th generation. So my advice is that at least you choose a high-performance processor and then choose the latest generation whenever possible. In case someone is holding a gamebook from a previous generation of processors and recommending it to you, it is recommended to end the chat directly.
The screen is too good to flicker
In fact, in addition to the processor and graphics card, the gamebook still has a lot of "cost-effective space". It's like a screen. Parameters such as resolution and refresh rate are often placed in a conspicuous place by manufacturers as much as possible and repeatedly emphasized. Everyone also knows better, play FPS on the high brush otherwise the resolution is preferred.
As far as I know, in addition to design and imaging professionals, the average person has been taught to ignore the color gamut parameter. Or maybe there's another reason people don't mean to make it clear to you: either "72% NTSC," or "100% sRGB," or simply "DCI-P3."
Don't say what it means or what the effect is, how can it not be confused? In fact, the color gamut refers to the size of the color range of the screen, and the larger the color, the more realistic. While there are several different standards, in the vast majority of cases you can keep in mind that 100% sRGB ≥ 72% NTSC.
The vast majority of the sRGB's color range is included in the NTSC, so it's hard to see the difference in color expression between the two. If you're experiencing a computer screen with a color gamut labeled DCI-P3 or 100% sRGB, don't worry too much. But it's a different story to come across 72% NTSC, which has a much larger color coverage than sRGB. It can be understood from another angle: NTSC is a set of numbers from 1-10, while the latter is a set of numbers from 0 to 7.
You never know how much sRGB is included in 72% of NTSC, and if you're lucky, it's probably not much different from 100% sRGB. If you're unlucky, it means your picture will definitely have a lack of color.
I casually found a game book that cost more than nine thousand dollars on the Internet, and the color gamut column of the parameter screen was marked as 72% NTSC. However, in the large poster of the product detail page, the display of the screen part only highlights the "144Hz IPS", and such a conspicuous position does not mention the color gamut.
This is a 9000+ computer. NTSC was one of the earlier standards that were more suitable for television, and it was released this year. In other words, are you betting on whether the manufacturer is weak-minded or not? So, for screens that only dare to claim NTSC without mentioning sRGB, my advice is not to gamble.
As for the part of the screen material, most of the computer screens on the market are screens using "IPS technology", which is mainly based on the ability to restore relatively accurate colors, which belongs to the technology of professional displays. Aside from liking light leakage, there are no big flaws.
Perhaps you can also see the use of TN soft screen computer products, its screen response speed is very fast, but there are generally some deficiencies in color, belonging to the screen used by low-end products. Therefore, under the premise of meeting the refresh rate and resolution, the color gamut also meets the requirements, and ipS is right when things are not decided.
Where there is any heat dissipation black technology
In addition, for the game book, heat dissipation is also a big problem. First of all, the game is known for its hardware performance, so the heat of the fuselage or even the maintenance of high temperatures for a long time is a particularly normal and inevitable thing.
And this is something you can't intuitively feel from the product parameter table, the detail page, and even before you buy the first high-intensity use. At present, the vast majority of game books use a combination of fan + heat pipe + heat sink + heat sink hole.
Heat dissipation is actually a physical problem in nature, and there is no way to solve it through other scientific and technological means without affecting performance. It can only be determined by looking at its heat pipes, the number of fans, the size of the area of the heat sink, the location of the opening holes and how many heat dissipation holes there are to determine how much the manufacturer has put into heat dissipation. Some manufacturers always like to say what "heat dissipation black technology", and it is glacier and frost blade 2.0, and it keeps fooling everyone with one word after another.
But no matter what he said, in fact, it is still the above several means of heat dissipation, at most add a liquid cooling. Because the manufacturers themselves understand that the so-called black technology is simply a wrong answer at present.
There is also a routine: stealing the concept. Some games will show people the actual heat dissipation when they are promoted, which is a bit similar to the following picture. But sometimes, the manufacturer shows you the surface temperature of the fuselage, which does not prove that the so-called heat dissipation performance is strong.
Because there is also a fundamental reason for machine heat dissipation is the degree of release of performance power. Suppose one computer has 165W power and a surface temperature of 40°C; another computer has 240W power and a surface temperature of 50°C. You can't assume that the former dissipates heat better just because it's 40°C < 50°C, because the latter may be configured to play a higher game a bit more refreshingly. Moreover, the manufacturer may let you see only the entry-level or castrated version of the product.
This feeling is a bit similar to the 2000 piece flagship mobile phone you think is very cheap and great, click in to find that it is only the lowest match. The only thing you can believe is that if a game book's surface temperature is frighteningly high, it is at best a bit of a poor temperature control.
The hard disk only cares about the amount of space
We generally only pay attention to what type of hard disk it uses and how much storage space it has. This also gives manufacturers room to play routines. In general, serious games are not very good at giving you mechanical hard disks, unless there is a particularly large capacity requirement will encounter a combination of solid state + mechanical hard disks. In addition, there are some very obscure places, such as interfaces. Didn't expect that? Even the hard disk part you have to wrestle with the manufacturer. The interface of the hard disk is simply summarized: SATA Mechanical & Solid State Drive, M.2 Solid State Drive, M.2 NVMe three.
In the case of the first SATA interface hard disk, even if the interface is the same, the performance of the solid state is still thrown out of the mechanical N street. This depends on the difference of the hard disk itself, I believe everyone is very good at distinguishing.
The focus is on the M.2 interface under the SSD, whether there is "NVMe protocol" support, is completely the difference between the two worlds. The simple understanding is that there is no NVMe protocol like a normal network disk download, and the other is to open a subscription super membership.
Overall, M.2 solid-state NVMe > M.2 solid-state > SATA solid-state > SATA machinery. If you are unfortunate enough to step on these pits, then in hindsight there will always be a few knots in your heart, especially when you find that others have spent the same money but have not been tricked. In addition, there are similar to "the so-called mechanical keyboard but no axis", "installed two memory sticks but found that it is a single channel", "just listen to a loud sound" and so on.
These things are parameters that will hardly appear on the product detail page, and you will most likely not give you any clear answers when you ask customer service, or even suspect that you have ulterior motives. Although insiders can solve it by themselves through DIY, it is not only troublesome for ordinary people to do so, but also loses the manufacturer's warranty service.
In fact, manufacturers can coax everyone to play, mainly by taking advantage of information asymmetry. As long as this information gap is eliminated, no one can easily fool you. Therefore, before purchasing, you must be very clear about your needs, do not care about the leopard. It is best to find a familiar partner to spend some time to help you take a look. Don't think that it is certainly right to buy expensive, and don't feel that in order to buy a game, it seems to have become a bit of a "less money and more things" calculation. If you wait until you find out that you have suffered a loss, you will be left with yourself.