I Have V1S whitout Turbo memory - help me :)

Hi i Have Asus V1S without turbo memory. In Poland Asus Poland sells V1S computers without turbo memory. I can plug it by myself. I know that i must take off buck cover and main board. This is a lot of work. Asus Poland say's that I can do it myself but i worry that I can lost my warranty.

HP said that when computer had got 2GB of ram, Turbo cache memory is not accelerating computer. I sow on matt_h1 review that on 3dmark this turbo memory is do nothing. Is it true?

I thinking is it worthwhile to open computer and Take off main board to plug something that will not give me any effects. What do you think about this?

I looking for same servis manual to know how to open my notebook. If somebody have it please send me. moskitos (at) o2.pl

PS Sorry for my english

 

Welcome here

Before everything, I edited the way you wrote your email address from [email protected] to a (at) a.com to make it more difficult for spammers to use it.

At the moment with the current status of Windows Vista and the drivers, I don't think that the upgrade is worth it, considering that there might be problems with the support too.

 

depends on your graphics card. a mid or high end one like the X1600, 7600 8600 or 2600 or better will not need it as they usually have 256MB dedicated so they dont need to take memory from the RAM. turbo memory is quite useless anyways as the memory used is slower than dedicated memory so dont expect it will make anything faster.

 

The other issue is that Asus' Ensemble units are not designed to be taken completely apart and put back together by the average end user, except for the pre-cut doors. Unless you are skilled in this regard, it is likely that the re-assembled unit will not have the fit of your current setup, and you can have structural compromise (i.e. creaks, etc) appear as a consequence.

I also agree with mujtaba, given the conflicting data circulating about the real vs potential benefits of TurboMem right now, it probably isn't worth the effort on your part or the risk to the unit.

 

If you haven't already bought the Intel Turbo memory, and already have the V1s system I'd hold off until it has been optimized with software and drivers for Vista.

Ken (GenTech) did testing and benchmarks, and found that like HP and Matt_h1 it did not help performance, and actually decreased it in areas.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=156705

His testing in PCmarks showed a decrease in speed (as seen in the link above). It is worth noting that it is supposed to function like a cache, and so the more you use it the better it may get, but currently testing does not show ReadyDrive and ReadyBoost to be of benefit. Ken speculated that it would likely be of use in systems with slower components, but with systems like the v1s the components might be faster than the Intel memory device.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=2344847&postcount=49