intel turbo memory adapters for my 5920g? Will any work?

I have the blu-ray 5920g with bluetooth and a 8600, but no turboboost.

Not that its a massively great feature, but I'm guessing my motherboard has an empty spot where the turboost should be? and while these adapters are floating around I'd like to chuck one in there.

Anyone have any info on this? What is compatible withe the 5290g. I know turboboost never really took of, so was there only one type? or am I limited to the specific tuboboost adapter from another 5920g, or can I put in others?

Also how would it interact with readyboost and ram in 32bit and 64 bit OSes?

For example You can't go past 4GB of readyboost in 32 bit, even if your system ram is 1gb or 4gb, the max is always 4gb.
With 4gb of ram and 4gb of readboost will you still be able to use a further 2gb of turbooost in a 32 bit OS? Or are readyboost and turboost seen as the same as far as the OS is concerned, thus you will eiether have to use 2gb of readboosy and 2gb of turboost or 4gb of readyboost and no turboboost.

 

Hi pampum,

Just to clarify, you're asking about Intel Turbo Memory, not Turbo Boost. The former is a flash memory card that Windows can use for ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive, the latter is the tech in the Intel Core i-series CPU that lets it overclock itself.

Most motherboards do have a spare mini-PCI slot that can hold a Turbo Memory card. Look on eBay and you'll find tons of cards that will fit (it's the same form factor as your wireless card).

The original 1GB card is the only one that's compatible with the 5920G's chipset. Since they're produced by Intel, you don't have to get one from another 5920G.

Turbo Memory's purpose is to be utilized by ReadyBoost, so the Turbo Memory driver will notice and configure itself appropriately. The Turbo Memory will provide half of its space (512MB) for Ready Boost, and half for ReadyDrive to speed up boot-up times.

 

yup I mixed up the turbo memroy/boost thing and went with it lol. I know the difference though.

Hmm ok i just found a bunch of 2gb turbo memory cards on ebay, so why are u sure these would not be compatible with the 5920g? any reason why?

also you state half will be used for readyboost and half for readydrive. I have never heard of readydrive, is this feature unique to the intel turbo memory?

Because I have used readyboost in the past and it just allows you to set readyboost size, no mention of readydrive.

And i think windows vista only allows up to one readyboost device, whereas 7 allows as many as you want. So does this mean if you install the turbo memory you wont be able to use readyboost in vista?...

annway though as long as there is a free space in the 5920g. I cant imagine why mine wouldnt. Is it easy to acess?

 

A little bit of Wiki goes a long way to explaining what ReadyDrive is and more on how ITM works.

The 2GB cards are designed to Turbo Memory 2.0 specs, which were introduced with the Centrino 2 notebooks and the 4 series chipsets. The PM965 chipset in your Aspire 5920G only supports Turbo Memory 1.0, and the only cards available for that are 1GB.

Of course, nothing's stopping you from giving it a try. Who knows, it might work!

EDIT: The eBay link you PM'd me said it does work on the 965 chipsets, so that just muddles things.

 

Yup, thats confusing me too. Does anyone know for definite? Or am i relay the first to have to try it? I have also found a 4GB card for 80US.

If get the 2GB or the 4GB one and put it in ( i have to ship them from overseas), will there be an obvious way to know if its working or not?

I mean I dont even know if readyboost is working when i use it. It will be easy to slap the 4gb turbo memory in there and think oh wow my pc is so much faster now from the placebo effect when in reality the turbo memory adapter is just dead weight.

I opened up the 5920g and there is definitely a spare mico pci slot just under the touchpad. I'm guessing its a full sized micro pci not half sized one.

 

How to see if ReadyBoost is working or not...try this?
Then again, if you've got 3 or 4GB of RAM, ReadyBoost has a minimal impact on your system's performance; it only really helps machines with 1GB or lower.

 

I would mildy disagree. When you have a lot of tasks open esp memory intensive ones it really seems to help out even if you have 2-4GB. For example 2 games open at once having supreme comander open with tons of firefox tabs and a few other background apps, the hdd seems to cache less. But again these are my findings. It could be placebo.

yea I've seen that app before. Its good, too bad it onky works on vista though.

So any word on the turbo memory thing? I can order it it for about $35. Think its worth trying the 2GB one, not that costtly and it has a chance of working? Heck I wanna try the 4gb. Would I be correct to say if the 2gb works then so will the 4gb and vice-versa?

 

No clue, you're venturing outside my field of knowledge, pampum.
Be adventurous and give it a go!

 

OK so I got a brand new 2gb turbo memory chip. Just installed it now, but I'm not sure how to tell if its working or not.

Windows detected it, and I installed the latest drivers from intel from their website, but when I opened up the intel console neither readyboost or readydrive were enabled. I only manually enabled readyboost, that's all it allows me, the readydrive is greyed out, as you can see here.

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/2449/turbomemory.jpg

When i go to the intel website which says how to tell if turbo memory is working, it says both of them should be enabled as you can see here

Intel® Turbo Memory — How do I know that Intel® Turbo Memory is working?

Any ideas whats going on?