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    Turbo Memory & Turbo Cache Memory?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Jason100, Nov 15, 2007.

  1. Jason100

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    Yeah. Turbo memory is a extra memory that's used to boost up the system memory, turbo cache is a term Nvidia uses for shared memory -wich means the videocard can borrow RAM if it needs additional memory for heavy graphic tasks.
     
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    So will the 1GB turbo cache memory reduce the system memory from 2GB to 1GB memory when in use? and how often is turbo cache memory used?
     
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    no the turbo mem is a separate card that has 1gb on that card its in addition to the 2gb you already have. you do not see it as extra though. you really will never "see" the extra 1gb on it its just there to cache from the hdd
     
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    You slightly misread Jason's post, he asked about the turbocache memory feature.

    To summarize:
    - TURBO MEMORY is an additional (though never seen) 512MB/1GB (dependent on model) of "RAM" that is used to help speed up performance (loading times) and save battery life by reducing the number of times the hard drive is accessed (by putting frequently used stuff on the turbo memory instead).
    - TURBO CACHE is a feature used by Nvidia to help the graphics card. For example: you're playing Oblivion with high res/detail running along fine, suddenly a smoke bomb blows up in front of you causing all gfx card memory to be filled simulating smoke. Your gfx card says **** OUT OF MEMORY! So what it does is use any extra RAM you have (slow) to keep from having to access the hard drive (incredibly slow) to minimize the performance penalty. And the turbo cache feature is used only when there is no more memory available on the gfx card, since why would it activate to slow performance?
     
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    going by his title he also states turbo memory ... re-read the title

    and in that case turbo cache does deduct from system memory
     
    zfactor, Nov 15, 2007
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