Lily Chemaa
On August 20, the highly anticipated domestic 3A masterpiece “Black Myth: Wukong” was officially launched. For a time, major platforms sparked a craze of black myths. The popular games made many friends have the idea of buying a notebook to have fun and seeing what kind of tricks the Great Sage has.
However, it is difficult to choose a configuration.These users consider two main factors when choosing a gaming laptop: configuration and cooling. The strength of the configuration can directly determine whether the product provides a perfect and smooth user experience, while good heat dissipation can ensure the continuous high-level release of hardware performance.
In the past period of time, due to the radical approach of gaming laptops in cooling, the product has left a strong impression on users but is very “noisy” to use. In fact, the strong cooling ability based on “noise” seriously damages the user experience. Especially for users who are not used to wearing headphones, excessive fan noise may affect the sense of substitution when the game plot is advanced.
However, there is a gaming laptop recently – Thor Hunting Blade 16. It solves the “noise” concerns when gaming well. It not only has powerful hardware and cooling capabilities, but also achieves excellent noise control.
Appearance design: full-fitting architecture is super high in appearance
The Thor Hunting Blade series is a new product line launched by Thor in 2024. This time, the Hunting Blade 16 notebook also uses a brand-new mold. The all-metal body, black color design, changeable neon fantasy LOGO, sci-fi engraving lines, and classic Thor family symbols give the entire body a particularly domineering and rugged look.
This laptop has a 16-inch panel on the B side, which uses a 16:10 display ratio that can display more content. The resolution can reach 2560×1600K, supports 165Hz refresh rate, and has a brightness of up to 500nit. In terms of screen parameters, Thor Hunting Blade 16 notebooks are full for gamers. The super high refresh rate can bring a silky gaming experience to players. The wide color coverage makes the game scene more colorful, allowing players to Immerse yourself in the game world.
The keycaps of the Thunder Hunting Blade 16 notebook use a 1.8mm ultra-long keypad, 0.2T micro-arc keycap, and an anti-fingerprint coating on the surface. It experiences strong upward pressure rebound, precise feedback, and is quite comfortable. In addition, the full-size arrow keys, independent numeric keyboard area, and independent power keys outside the keyboard can effectively reduce the chance of accidentally touching.
At the same time, for players who like cool lighting, supporting three-zone RGB lighting can perfectly meet their DIY needs. Not only is the keyboard design very comfortable, this laptop trackpad has a very smooth surface and a good touch.
In terms of interfaces, the left interface is 2 USB-A 3.1 Gen1; the right interface is USB-A 3.1 Gen1 and 3.5mm two-in-one audio jack.
The power interface is on the back of the body, and is also equipped with an RJ-45 network interface, HDMI 2.1 TMDS, and USB-C 3.1 Gen2 interface.
Top hardware performance release
The Thor Hunting Blade 16 laptop is equipped with a Core i7-14650HX processor. This processor adopts Intel’s new hybrid architecture design, 8+8 core, 24-thread design, and a turbo frequency of up to 5.2GHz. Compared with the previous generation, it has more core threads, higher turbo frequency, larger processor cache, and higher DDR5 memory specifications that can be supported. It is obvious that the Core i7-14650HX can better balance performance and energy consumption, bringing an excellent gaming experience.
According to the Cinebench 23 test, this Core i7-14650HX mobile processor has a multi-core score of 24239. Such an eye-catching multi-core score means that it can easily deal with it when facing high load scenarios.
The graphics card is the RTX 4070 Laptop, which is still the mainstream GPU at the moment. It is worth mentioning that Thor Hunting Blade 16 can release it at 140W power consumption and full blood. In addition, it can also enable the direct connection function of the independent display, which will further enhance the gaming performance compared to the mixed mode of using core display. With a 2.5K 165Hz high-refresh screen and dual display three-module switching, it is full of sincerity in the gaming experience.
In actual testing, 3D MARK is used for testing, recording the running scores of 3D MARK tests in Time Spy mode and Fire Strike mode. Thunder Blade 16 has a total score of 12974 in Time Spy mode, while in Fire Strike mode, the graphics card has a total score of 32482. The test results show that the Thunder Blade 16’s performance in both tests far exceeded the average level, demonstrating the full potential of its RTX 4070 Laptop graphics card.
In addition, in order to facilitate users who like to “torm”, Thor has previously provided a control center for users. In the control center, it can not only enable free switching between office, gaming and rage, but also realize RGB lighting control of keyboard and LOGO. Customized fan speed adjustment, etc., Thor has added a graphics card overclocking option this time, and users can develop the maximum energy of this 4070 graphics card by themselves.
Overall, the overall configuration of the Thunder Hunting Blade 16 laptop is still very powerful. The flagship processor pairs with a full-blooded RTX 4070, easily playing “Black Myth Wukong” with 2K picture quality. It runs mainstream games and content creation software smoothly and stably. To maximize performance, the Thunder Hunting Blade 16 also features a powerful cooling system.
Heat dissipation has always been one of the core of gaming laptops, but Thor’s consideration of heat dissipation this time is different from many similar products. Its starting point is not just to improve heat dissipation efficiency, stack heat dissipation area, and increase the number of fans. This provides players with powerful cooling capabilities. Instead, how to ensure strong heat dissipation while reducing product wind noise, thereby creating a more comfortable user experience for users.
The cooling system of the genus technology is the answer given by Thor. It adopts a three-fan and five-heat pipe heat dissipation solution. The heat pipes are 4 8mm diameters + 1 6mm and a total of 5mm heat pipes. The total length can reach 1590mm, which can efficiently derivate core heat. Although there is one more fan number than the mainstream gaming laptops on the market, Thor chose the fast-cooled Night Owl fan with a volume of 0.2mm, with a blade reaching 214 pieces, which can theoretically increase by 40% compared to the previous generation. air volume reduces the noise by twice. Therefore, Thunder Hunting Blade 16 ensures the heat dissipation effect without sacrificing the user experience due to the noise generated by high-intensity operation. This allows game users to have an immersive audio and video experience without wearing headphones.
Summary: High performance, large screen, and detailed optimization bring a good experience
Although the Thunder Hunting Blade 16 features an Intel Core i7-14650HX processor and an RTX 4070 Laptop graphics card, it maintains a relatively conventional size and thickness for a gaming laptop. At the same time, this size does not affect the performance of the CPU and GPU at all. It combines a variety of design technology cooling systems such as three fans and five heat pipes, allowing the product to ensure continuous high-intensity output in terms of performance release, while in terms of wind noise The control of the game book makes it a unique existence that distinguishes it from other products.
Secondly, the screen is also a powerful attraction point of Thunder Hunting Blade 16. After all, the larger screen gives people a more intuitive and obvious improvement than the upgrade of other components. Moreover, this screen is not only larger, but also has a refresh rate. It also has an e-sports-level performance in response time, and it can meet players’ high-refresh needs without external screens.
At present, Thor Hunting Blade 16 is available for purchase on e-commerce platforms. In addition to the Core i7-14650HX+RTX 4070 configuration this time, Thor also provides a richer configuration choice. Interested people can pay attention.
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