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    Nvidia TurboCache On My M1330?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Kris @ JKA, Jun 20, 2010.

  1. Kris @ JKA

    Kris @ JKA Notebook Geek

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    I have 4gb of ram and if I'm honest I only use at the very most 2gb
    (well technically only 3.5 shows up)
    I have been reading about this TurboCache thing and checked the Nvidia site but can't find anything.
    Where do I find it and is it any good?
     
  2. G73Guy

    G73Guy Notebook Consultant

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    Here is a link. Now consider Nvidia is no longer bragging about it. I could not find it mentioned as a feature on your GPU on Nvidia site. In the past it was.

    It does not do much good as the system bandwidth is just not enough to in practice help in 3D rendering. TC is not meant to be user controlled. System RAM is taken as needed. If you need that extra RAM as I said just not enough bandwidth but I also doubt your GPU has the horsepower to make great use of substantially more memory than 128MB.

    It works so well many tried to disable it. You should not really worry about it. You have enough RAM I do not see it negatively affecting your system performance.
     
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    Thanks for that. On the face of it, it sounds like a nice little piece of booster software. Now I've done my homework, I think I'll be leaving it alone.

    I'm just toying about with it just now anyway. My last computer was a Samsung NC10! So this is like a whole different ball of wax.