Honor Hunter Gaming Laptop V700: Liftable wind valley cooling, the body is always cool, and the hand feels hot

Honor has dropped a depth bomb in the field of gaming.

As a niche industry with a "long history", the gaming laptop market has been monopolized by a few oligarchs. Although this reflects some rules of the industry itself, it also shows from one side that the gaming laptop market has not actively evolved for too long. For users, a market without sufficient competition will make it difficult to have better product choices.

It is in this context that Honor came with its first gaming laptop, the Honor Hunter V700. As a young player in the notebook field and a complete 24K newcomer in the gaming laptop field, Honor has the courage to break the originally calm market balance, but how much confidence does it have? In the highly homogenized gaming laptop market with high unspoken rules in the industry, will the Honor Hunter V700, which has already "awakened" the dormant market, bring more surprises to users?

Gaming laptops can be as thin as 19.9 mm

Laptops have never been unified in terms of performance and thinness, or in other words, they have always been at two extremes of separation, with almost no possibility of bridging them. This industry feature is even more prominent in the field of gaming laptops. For example, the gaming laptops currently on the market are often 3 to 40 mm thick, and at first glance, they are almost simply and roughly put into the shell of the laptop.

Perhaps to declare war on the "old customs" of the industry, Honor's first gaming laptop Hunter V700 was made with a thin body. The body thickness is only 19.9mm, which is much thinner than a one-yuan coin. Through clever color matching and sharp lines, the body shows a strong sense of technology.

This is not bragging, but pointing out a fact - for gaming laptops, the thinner and lighter, the more high-tech they are. Because more things need to be packed into a limited body, and the temperature needs to be kept down when running at high speeds, the most realistic solution, besides putting the laptop in the refrigerator, is the reasonable design of the air duct and further breakthroughs in heat dissipation materials. This is not something that can be solved by traditional public molds. It requires more material selection experiments and new mold designs. In other words, the Hunter V700 has grown into what it is today after thousands of trials and tribulations.

The A and D sides of the V700 adopt a flat design language, which looks very restrained at first glance. It does not have the rough design elements commonly used in traditional gaming laptops, but is slightly refined in details, adding extremely simplified geometric patterns. This sense of overall and microscopic coordination not only injects a smart visual experience into the V700, but also takes into account the needs of cute girls - they want the performance of a gaming laptop, but do not want to be labeled as overly masculine.

In terms of materials, the A side of the V700 is made of aluminum alloy, and the lifting wind valley heat sink on the D side is made of magnesium-aluminum alloy. The overall material is quite solid, and the details have been polished with humanized design. In contrast, most gaming laptops on the market are still using plastic bodies to save costs. In comparison, the full sincerity of the Honor Hunter gaming laptop V700 stands out.

On the side of the body, the V700 did not follow the industry practice of simply stacking interfaces, but instead added a "blue hunter shoulder line" in the middle. During daily use, the "blue hunter shoulder line" will emit a faint blue light, creating a "RGB feeling" exclusive to gaming.

As a gaming laptop, the V700 will certainly not lose the trendy RGB elements. From the appearance, the A-side logo, C-side keyboard, blue hunter shoulder line on the side, and the Fenggu atmosphere light of the V700 gaming laptop can all glow, and support 16 million colors of atmosphere display. However, thanks to the clever D-side lifting design, this extremely cheerful design element does not look "killing Matt" on the V700. Instead, the subtle RGB lights will create an immersive feeling of "combat power" when actually used.

Based on the trend elements of the gaming laptop industry, the fledgling V700 has walked its own path. In fact, due to its efficient performance, its application scenarios are not limited to games. Its cool appearance and sharp and thin body are extremely suitable for office scenes, and it is not at all inappropriate to use it for rendering and editing videos.

Crazy performance, a powerful gaming tool

As a gaming laptop, performance is naturally the top priority of the V700. In terms of hardware configuration, the V700 is equipped with an Intel i7-10750H processor, NVIDIA RTX 2060, 16GB dual-channel memory, and supports 1TB PCIe3.0 x4 SSD. Judging from the configuration alone, the Honor Hunter gaming laptop V700 is at the top level in its class.

At the software level, V700 has specially customized three modes: quiet, balanced, and frenetic. Users can switch between different modes with one click of the "HUNTER key" according to their own needs to obtain the corresponding operating experience.

Through the professional computer testing software HWiNFO 64, we can find that in Berserk Mode, the CPU and GPU performance of V700 are indeed fully released, providing gamers with strong underlying hardware support.

In order to intuitively demonstrate the processor performance of V700, Cinebench R15 software was selected for testing.

The actual test results show that the single-core performance of V700 can reach 193cb, and the multi-core performance can reach 1346cb. From this result, it can be seen that the powerful performance of i7-10750H has been deeply integrated into the overall performance of V700, and there is almost no waste in the performance level.

In terms of graphics card, the RTX 2060 high-end graphics card equipped with the V700 has flagship parameters of 6GB GDDR6 video memory and 192-bit video memory bus width.

When using 3DMark to test the graphics card capabilities of the V700, it was found that its graphics card score under Time Spy could reach 6774 points. From the test results, it can be seen that due to the reasonable tuning of the V700, the performance of the RTX 2060 has been fully squeezed out.

Of course, theoretical results are just boring numbers. In order to intuitively demonstrate the actual gaming performance of the Honor Hunter Gaming Laptop V700, two popular games, "CS:GO" and "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", were run.

The actual test environment is as follows:

The picture parameters of "CS:GO" and "PUBG" are both set to 1920×1080; full screen, vertical sync turned off.

The final test results show that the frame rate of "CS:GO" can be maintained above 300, and "PUBG" can be maintained above 120. When playing specific games, there is almost no lag or frame drop, which shows that the powerful performance of the Honor Hunter Gaming Laptop V700 is indeed full of confidence.

Liftable wind valley heat dissipation, no more worrying about "hot" games

Corresponding to the excellent performance is the V700's highly technological heat dissipation design. Because good temperature control is an important indicator for measuring a gaming laptop, and it is also a major consideration that we must not ignore when purchasing a high-performance laptop. Once the heat dissipation is not up to standard, the gaming laptop will automatically reduce the frequency due to temperature reasons, even if it has the best performance, which will reduce the overall running efficiency of the game.

In fact, one of the reasons why the V700's performance is so outstanding is that it adopts a unique temperature control design - the lifting wind valley.

Unlike traditional integrated bodies, the metal plate at the bottom of the V700 can be separated from the body to form a "V"-shaped angle. Coupled with the black radiator and dual 12V hurricane boost fans, the V700 can quickly discharge heat from the body with high efficiency while showing its powerful performance, keeping the internal clock in a relatively cool environment.

In order to test the heat dissipation performance of the Honor Hunter gaming laptop V700, we selected AIDA 64 FPU and FurMark to perform a "double-test" test on it.

After one hour of full load testing, the CPU frequency of the V700 remained at 2.69GHz, the power consumption was 45.2W, and the core temperature was as high as 94°; the core frequency of the GPU was stable at 1630MHz, the power consumption was maintained at around 100W, and the core temperature was 77°.

As for the external temperature of the fuselage, the temperature gun shows that the highest temperature is no more than 38°C. When you actually touch it with your hand, it only feels warm, which has no impact on the actual experience.

Considering that "double copy" is an extreme test, most users will not use it to this extent in daily use. From this perspective, the heat dissipation design of V700 is absolutely satisfactory, and there is no need to worry about heat dissipation even when playing high-intensity "hot" games.

The software continues Honor's humanized philosophy

Although Honor is a relatively new player in the gaming laptop industry, it cannot be ignored that as a mobile phone manufacturer, Honor's understanding of software interaction and the Internet of Everything is definitely better than most notebook manufacturers. Honor's advantage in thinking also injects unique characteristics into the software interaction of the V700.

For example, when many of us are playing games, we often want to record our "highlight moments", but since we cannot foresee such "highlight moments", it is difficult to record them.

The V700, together with the Honor mobile phone, has creatively added a "replay" function. When using it, we only need to place the Honor mobile phone on the touch area of ​​the Honor Hunter Gaming Laptop V700, and we can choose to replay 30 seconds forward or record 30 seconds backward of the exciting game video.

In addition, in response to the social sharing desire of gamers, V700 also adds the function of mobile game live broadcast. When using it, we can record audio through the mobile phone microphone, and the sound of the game will not be interrupted. This magical operation not only greatly lowers the threshold for game live broadcast, but also provides a live broadcast experience comparable to paid software.

In general, unlike traditional gaming laptops that only focus on performance, Honor V700 has a terminal strategic advantage and corresponding Internet software thinking, so it is endowed with a deeper interactive concept. Although V700 itself does not over-promote this selling point, when using it, I believe that users will be able to get Honor's intentions through a certain small function.

Summarize:

According to data released by IDC, in the second quarter of 2020, sales of gaming laptops accounted for 23.7% of the Chinese consumer notebook market, accounting for 34.7% of the total market size. It can be said that gaming laptops have become the most important growth point in the notebook industry. This market trend must be the most important factor for Honor to enter the gaming laptop industry.

However, what is obviously different from some brands chasing hot spots is that through products such as mobile phones, TVs, IoT, gaming laptops, etc., we can clearly perceive the product orientation of "high-quality products catering to consumer needs" in Honor's brand genes.

Although the Honor Hunter gaming laptop V700 has just been released, under the product guidance of the Honor brand gene, it has already created highly competitive products such as the Smart Screen and MagicBook Pro. This feature also shines in the gaming laptop, such as the ultra-thin design, humanized interaction, etc.

The tone of the Honor brand has played a crucial role in the success of the V700. From the unique design to the sincere configuration, all of them make it stand out among the highly homogenized competitors. Based on this, with the brand as a pioneer, it is foreseeable that the Honor Hunter gaming laptop V700 will definitely have a promising future.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.