Intel Turbo Memory driver update advantage

Has anyone updated the driver for the Intel Turbo memory? If yes, have you notice any advantage? Any improvement of the WEI?

 

It fixes amongst a lot of things a lot of Blue screen errors, problems where the driver would not install on systems with ITM.

 

Does Intel Turbo Memory has any Performance advantages?

 

Did it affect the Windows Experience Index?

 

There's quite a few threads on the forums discussing the benefits of the Intel Turbo Memory - just do a search, got some real user experiences as well. I'm thinking as to whether get a new laptop with this as well, and surely with the new drivers it might actually do some good - even after hearing people get BSOD's or slow start-ups - i believe they're working on this - and might improve the performance. As a cheap added option i dont see why not.

 

Ti's working great, loading is improved and the speed for booting for me is 18 sec.
The loading time 18 sec means, notebook is started and ready for use.

 

18secs, incredible! My booting process is almost 3'. My intel turbo memory is enable though. Something must be wrong somewhere

I'm wondering (besides the Intel Turbo Memory console in the start button) if there is an application that enables you to see how the Intel Turbo Memory is being used.

PS: My 3' means all icons mounted, internet working and the system stabilized and ready to operate.

 

Which driver version have you installed for the Intel Turbo Memory module.

 

I originally had 1.0.1.1004 but recently I went up to 1.5.0.1013, which one do you have?

 

1.5.0.1013 this is the latest and the best.
But i have seen that with my new notebook is starting much and much quicker then my older one.
The only difference is the Penryn CPU and the memory as you know now.

 

Have you found any free application allowing to see how the Robsom is being used? The reason I'm asking it seems that the 1G is divided into two portions, half for the ReadyBoost and the other half for ReadyDrive. So I disabled the ReadyBoost hoping to use the whole 1G for ReadyDrive but I don't seem to have gain much booting speed. So I'm just wondering if it is hardwired the half portions, one flash memory module for each application, do I make sense to you?

 

I plan to get exactly the same system as you, except a T9300 rather than the T9500. Any chance of testing this enabled and disabled - bearing in mind i don't want to damage your system! Just want to see the comparative start-up times.

 

Right now I have done the following:

1. Disabled ReadyBoost and using an USB drive with ReadyBoost properties (2GB).
2. Readydrive is enable (I'm not sure it is using the whole 1GB though).

Timings:

A) Booting and getting the first Windows Vista screen (desktop): 52"
(this is defintely an improvement)
B) Getting Internet: 1'46"

C) All drivers mounted and system stabilized: 2'30"


RePaRaQu gets 18" in phase C), it's a staggering performance, he has a T9500 (200MHz more than me only), however I'm not sure that's the main reason of his amazing rapid booting, I think is more his PC-6400 RAM (I have PC-5300) and his 64 Vista OS (I have 32 Vista OS).

 

18" is pretty fast, but he said " notebook is started and ready for use." which doesn't give much indication of the testing environment.

It also depends what applications you have on start-up... i somehow doubt it's the cpu, you have a T7700, so like you said the difference is hardly an issue to consider. Although im not sure about 32 bit and 64 bit OS - and is there really a difference in speed and performance over the 2 OS's.

Start-up time is usually fine for me, im using a desktop PC now, i start the PC up and go do soemthing else first and by the time i come back the PC is ready, but it would be nice to see an increase in start-up times using this Turbo Memory.

Also how fast are the hard drives you both using? this might impact on start-up times.

 

That's the thing, using the intel turbo memory (Robson) we are supposed to read the booting files directly from it, and not from the HDD (too slow), nor from its cache (which I don't know how much it is). That's why I wanted to have the whole 1GB to be used by ReadyDrive, which is the application used to access the Robson while booting.

There must be another secret that RePaRaQu is not sharing with us, perhaps the European seconds are faster than ours

 

perhaps our seconds are faster, but notebooks are cheaper in the US... rather have the latter in the UK...

 

First let me tell you my sec are the same as your sec.

Second I am running with this HARDWARE:
Intel COre 2 Duo T9500
4GB DDR2-PC2-6400
1GB Inte Turbo Memory
160GB Hitachi HTS722016K9S (Shock Protection)
Window Vista Home Premium 64Bits
Bios Version 1.16
AHCI enabled

What do you need to know more.

I will try to make a short movie for the startup of my notebook.

 

The only I can positively say is that my laptop is faster using the USB flash drive as ReadyBoost cache. But, for that to work you must disable ReadyBoost from Intel Turbo Memory.

My process is very quick at the very begining, the blincking bar at the left hand top corner and the BIOS screen they come up in no time. Aftewards, it takes about 1'45'' to mount all the drivers (excluding the funzy Vista icons in the right hand side vertical bar). I don't have too many programs and the start menu, I may have spybot and skype, that's it.

I have no clue why my booting is so slugish. Booting should be much faster than that, perhaps not 18", but I would certainly be happy with < 1'.

 

Well, you are lucky, for some reason, the "ReadyBoost" will not enable from the management utility for the Robonson. The "ReadyDrive" appears to be stuck on enabled also, maybe it's from the Blue-screen I received when installing it the first time... (Updating to 1.5.? doesn't solve it).

 

Check this link for more details, this might just give you the answer massiveH.
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/itm/sb/CS-025852.htm

 

Oh....... I feel stupid now, thanks. (Shows enabled BTW)

But I can't see how it boots in 18", I'd love for that kind of speed (how much do you have installed?) I can get 1:15 on a good day.

 

It looks like you have the old version which had those type of problems, get the latest version of Robson, the 1.5.0.1013 at the intel web site.

 

yep got that but still the loading some time isn't enabling both options.

 

Hummmmmm, I don't have that problem, but you know what, you don't need the Robsom, you have a full 4GB RAM, and the RAM is way much faster than the Robson, it's acutally a good thing to dissable it completely.

 

Where does it go? Can you use the turbo memory card with the wifi and tv tuner card? I thought there where only two minipci port available?

 

Is connected on the left hand side under the glossy plastic bar. No, this Flash memory card works with ReadyDrive and ReadBoost technologies to speed up the booting process and ongoing activities respectively.

I retract myself, yes, ReadyBoost does work for fast download of frequently used applications dealing with whatever you do frequecntly (TV Tuner or WiFi operations). Instead of reading this data from the HDD, it reads it directly from the caches including the Intel Turbo Memory.

Now here is the deal; ReadyDrive and ReadyBoost share the 1G Intel Turbo Memory, Readydrive also uses the NVRAM of the H-HDD, it deals with fast booting and fast return from Hybernation mode. However if you want to use ReadyBoost with an external USB flash memory drive, then you have to disable it from the Intel Turbo Memory, which is not free of problems.

The fact is if you have <1GB of RAM and that you are not putting too much pressure on your system memory (playing no games), then it seems that this mini card is a must as it gives more system memory and help you to extend the life of the battery, but if you have >2GB, then perhaps this mini card doesn't buy much. I'm still experiencing with it.

I hope you are very confused now

 

Did you find where it goes?

 

18 seconds? let's see that movie! power on (not from hibernate) to logging onto this site would be a good movie. i want to watch this happen. i don't believe for, uh, a second you can have your desktop open and use programs in 18 seconds from a cold boot. prove me wrong.

 

now that would be a good test, im usually starting it up, and then launching Firefox straight away...

 

@Ayle: Were you able to install the Robson?