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    Question re turbo memory

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by vaw, Mar 23, 2009.

  1. vaw

    vaw Notebook Deity

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    Can you upgrade your memory to turbo memory if you didn't have it before?

    Are there any cons with turbo memory?
     
    vaw, Mar 23, 2009
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Your chipset needs to support Turbo Memory and you usually need to have an empty mini PCIe slot. I think you might be able to do something similar (like a software implementation in Vista?) with USB and/or ExpressCard flash drives, but I'm not totally sure...

    At any rate, the main point here is that there aren't really any cons with Turbo Memory... except that it's pretty much useless in most scenarios. You're much better off simply upgrading your memory given the extremely low current costs of DDR2.
     
    Commander Wolf, Mar 23, 2009
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    The only thing that turbo memory is really good for is making some apps load a lot faster. For example, if I had turbo memory I would tell it to look after firefox and media player so I don't have to wait for it to load.
     
    funky monk, Mar 23, 2009
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