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    Dell XPS M1330 Turbo Memory

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by CodeMonkeyX, Jul 11, 2007.

  1. Chuckles

    Chuckles Notebook Consultant

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    You may wait a very long time. Samsung and Seagate are making hybrid hard disks with 128MB and 256MB of on-board flash. These cannot be upgraded. So there are people out there who think 128MB gives some benefit. Intel's card gives 512M+512M, and if that isn't a market success (as seems likely), I don't think they will be in any hurry to release any further products.
     
    Chuckles, Sep 2, 2007
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  2. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Turbo Memory 2.0 is coming next year with the Montevina platform, so that might bring larger cards and more usefulness.
     
    Jayayess1190, Sep 2, 2007
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  3. mair

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    I just got my laptop last week and i have a turbo memory card ready to install does any one know wich is the best driver for it and where can i get it?
     
    mair, Sep 12, 2007
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  4. Raphie

    Raphie Notebook Consultant

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    Just download the latest version from Intel.com
    I've installed my 1GB module yesterday in my M1330
    I am now running 1GB Turbo Memory configured as ReadyDrive and 2GB Sandisk Extreme III for Readyboost in the RICOH CFslot

    so 3GB of flashmemory on 2GB of SDram should do the trick, don't you think?
    Though the 2GB SDram is going to be upgraded to a OCZ 4GB kit soon :)
     
    Raphie, Sep 12, 2007
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  5. Tainzhang

    Tainzhang Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh, sweet, after market Tubo Memory
     
    Tainzhang, Sep 13, 2007
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  6. Chuckles

    Chuckles Notebook Consultant

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    Can't be done. You can uncheck Readyboost in the Intel Turbo memory control panel, but ReadyDrive still only gets half a gig. (You can determine the ReadyDrive size in Device Manager, if I remember correctly.) Maybe next year they'll write a new driver that fixes this.
     
    Chuckles, Sep 13, 2007
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  7. Chuckles

    Chuckles Notebook Consultant

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    You may want to add the following Registry variable:

    HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IaNvStor\Parameters

    DWORD:
    CaEnableAdvPerf = 0 = write through
    CaEnableAdvPerf = 1 = write cache (risky in principle but not too risky on laptops)
     
    Chuckles, Sep 13, 2007
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  8. BenArcher

    BenArcher Notebook Consultant

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    From some testing on my comp your probably better off using the turbo cache for ready boost instead of the memory stick. Due to the fact the Intel turbo memory is much faster as Illistrated by my benchmarck of the readyboost partition below. Its scores about 3000MB/s in sandras file system benchmark. A memory card for flash stick is likeley to get maybe upto 20MB/s.
     

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  9. u53r

    u53r Notebook Enthusiast

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    Did some reading up on the Turbo memory. A lot of reference to Santa Rosa platform. So does that mean that those of us who got the 633MHz FSB CPUs won't be able to "benefit" (arguable, I know) from the addition of Turbo memory to our systems?
     
    u53r, Sep 13, 2007
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