intel turbo memory ...

Just wondering if by adding a Intel Turbo memory into the extra MiniPCI-E slot realy make a diffrence?
Any good or bad comments on them?

i have a dell d820 with t7400,3gigs ram,,

 

well, check these websites out:

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Memory

they will give you an idea about it.

 

the first intel turbo memory doesn't really help too much and in some cases, hurts but the revision with the montevina chipset is supposed to fix all that....


but yours won't really benefit so i would advise against it


also, i believe it only works on the santa rosa or montevina platform, not sure if you can just put it in any pci-e slot....

 

Also doesn't work under XP. I will be honest, I have it and I can't notice diddly-squat with my SSD. The two don't really don't go together though. I swear I could have noticed a difference on my old D630 though!

 

Thanks. After reading a few sites, it looks like my D820 wont handle this anyway.
My system runs realy nice the way it is.With the C2D T7400,3 gigs ram,100gig 7200rpm,WUXGA and Vista Ult.I'm happy with the speed.

 

Intel Turbo boost, is basically a USB flash drive attach on your motherboard, set as ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost is a technology in Windows Vista that uses your USB flash drive (it must be a fast one) as RAM instead of your Harddrive (basically puts the page file on your USB flash drive (in this case Intel turbo memory) instead of your hard drive. The problem is that if you use a USB memory stick in reality Vista does a backup of the page file on your harddrive in case the USB stick is removed by accident. (so it's not very beneficial on a laptop). However, when Vista detect Intel Turbo memory, it understand that this device cannot be remove so it doesn't perform a page file backup on your HDD. And this is where you save.

If your laptop has 4GB of RAM and you don't need more, even being safe after 3 years under Windows 7. Then Intel turbo memory is no need. I would just disable Windows pagefile all together and see if it helps. HOWEVER, you should disable pagefile only if you know that 4GB is already too much, as if you run applications and it reaches 4GB of RAM your application will crash on you, as you are out of RAM. (don't worry, Vista will warn you when you are low pf memory before, and suggest you applications to close.)

 

I would advise AGAINST turning off your page-file. Windows uses your ram for things other than just storing currently running applications. Windows expects the page file to be there and can act funny if it isn't--funny as in slower. Honestly, I would suggest just leaving it alone. Microsoft has had at least 15 years of experience dealing with virtual memory, along with the industry's 30-some years of research in the field.

 

The one thing I usually do with virtual memory is I make it so that it is only one size. I've read that it helps to keep your hard drive from fragmenting when the pagefile is constantly resized.

Greg