National limited edition version of Dragon Valley Founder R430 Comment

Unique style of play
R430 is the founder of the main pressure Sony VGP-BPS14 was produced this year, because of its price and configuration with the public, so many young consumers. For many young consumers, the game is an important part of their lives, many users are also games to buy for computer products. Taking into account these factors, Founder summer launched a new version of the Long Valley Founder R430, 5000 and limited world.
It is understood that Long Valley has three version of the Founder R430 appearance, players can choose different coverage according to their preferences. We received this as a fighter version of this product, I think, will be more in line with the tastes of boys.
LOGO Founder
In addition to roof designs, the design of this machine in the other and the general version of the R430 makes no difference. This machine uses a 14-inch glossy screen, the standard resolution of 1366 x 768. The overall design style hard, solid, is the founder of the summer to revive the model.
14-inch glossy screen
Axis of the concept of left and right

The design of the machine screen axis is very new, breathing on each VAIO VGN-AR61ZU side with a light, when the system is placed in different states, when the light turns to breathe a different light.

The overall design of the keyboard

· The overall design of the keyboard

In the design of the keyboard, this machine has always been adhering to design portable Founder. The surface is very smooth keycap, giving a pure feeling. Keyboard surface is mostly black, quiet calm. In addition, the keyboard surface Founder R430 is not too many shortcuts configuration, in addition to the VAIO VGN-AR64DB power switch in addition there is a button mode selector.
The overall design of the keyboard
Switch and mode selector button
The power switch on the left side is the power button single switching mode, the user can use this key to switch the power management modes, including "high performance", "balanced mode "option.

Labelling under the palm rest

The machine under the palm rest with the appropriate configuration label, from which we can see that this product uses a NIVDIA GeForce 310M graphics card and Intel Core i5, and also with a true copy of the operating system Windows 7.

The left side of the status indicator

Touchpad

Founder R430 touchpad with a rectangular structure, a long right and left, up and down both sides of the slightly narrower. In addition, the lower touchpad buttons using the integrated design, some of the keys feel a little stiffer.
Interfaces and weighing

· Interfaces and weighing

In the interface configuration, this machine has a body on the right DVD burner, two USB ports and a pair of audio interfaces. On the right side has the power interface, cable port, VGA port, VAIO VGN-AR68C and E-SATA interface. Overall, this type of machine interface is fairly comprehensive, critical response to daily use of the user.
The right side of the interface
The left side of the body interface

Founder R430 main light, but not the product, but compared to the traditional 14-inch thick laptop control of this machine was very good.
Bottom of fuselage design

This machine with a piece of 47Wh lithium ion, because this machine is configured with high-performance processor and graphics card, so the life of the battery is not very good. But the laptop as a main game, I believe many users use the house, so the battery life is not so important.
47Wh lithium-ion
Machine + Battery = 2.163 kg machine + battery + adapter = 2.593 kg

By weight, this machine is the machine over 2.163 kg weight of the battery, it can be said to have fairly good control of their weight. We can see that the founder has been thin in trying, believe that they will launch a logbook even more thin and light.

Presentation and configuration of performance tests

Introduced · Configuration and Benchmarks

In the configuration, this machine uses the VAIO VGN-AR690 Intel Core i5, and with a 2 GB memory and 500 GB hard drive. In addition, this machine also with a NVIDIA GeForce 310M. While this card is an entry-level products, but online gaming in general can reasonably absorb.
Intel Core i5 series processors
Type Intel Core i5 430M
2.26 Nominal frequency
The base frequency of up to 2533MHz
3MB of cache
Motherboard Chipset Intel HM55
Standard memory of 2 GB
Type DDRII memory
500GB hard disk capacity
Hard to describe 5400, SATA
Description of CD-ROM DVD SuperMulti Double Layer
Type of low-end discrete graphics cards
NVIDIA GeForce 310M graphics chip
Width 64bit
Screen size 14-inch
16:9 ratio screen

The specific configuration described

CPUID test firing.

Fengyun Intel Core i5-430M dual-core processors based on 32 nm technology, codenamed Arrandale, clocked at 2.27GHz, shared L3 cache of 3 MB Turbo Boost enabled, the frequency single-core to 2.53 GHz , Hyper-Threading technology and supports synchronization. In addition to the previous generation processor also supports the full instruction set is supported, it also supports the new SSE4.2 instruction set, allowing the VAIO VGN-AR705E performance of the laptop in some areas have a greater improvement.
HD Tune test shots.
PCMark Vantage test shots

Finally, through PCMark Vantage tests, we can see, the overall score of 4907 is good enough. His scores are roughly balanced, all the performance material can be well thought out.

· Test Summary:

I think with the game "Dragon Valley" popularity, special edition of the Founder R430 more than the consumer. In addition, this product is limited edition of the country, has a relatively good collection. Founder R430 laptop itself manufacture and configuration are relatively good, as the game players may wish to consider.