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    2GB Intel Turbo Memory

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by eclipse690, Jul 30, 2008.

  1. eclipse690

    eclipse690 Notebook Consultant

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    Is this worth the upgrade? What exactly does it help, I have heard that it can decrease performance but am not really sure?
     
    eclipse690, Jul 30, 2008
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Robson memory hasn't yielded any real-world or even any benchmark performance gains; consider the transfer of data between your RAM and hard drive to be analogous to a line of men passing buckets to put out a fire.

    The RAM is clearly faster than the slow hard drive; but why the hell would you introduce another man into the line, one who is much slower than the RAM and faster than the HD? You won't pass the buckets along any faster than before; if anything you introduce the latency of flash memory in to the delay time for the bucket to get from A to B. Robson memory doesn't actually make any sense in "increasing performance".
     
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  3. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Why not just get enough ram to handle the tasks at hand rather then buy a bandaid for a just in case scenario? Thats what went through my mind when purchasing a laptop. RAM is cheap nowadays why so putting enough into a computer so you wont thrash is a cheaper and smarter decision.
     
    Thaenatos, Jul 30, 2008
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    JagerQ Notebook Consultant

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    JagerQ, Jul 30, 2008
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    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    It is supposed to act as a storage place for prefetch data. But instead I use readyboost on an old SD card I had lying around. Really no difference in performance imho.
     
    Thaenatos, Jul 30, 2008
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    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    It can be added later, so let somebody else be the guinee pig.It might dissapoint you ,it has not been truly tested in real life by common users.
     
    eleron911, Jul 30, 2008
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