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    Turbo Memory Software ?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Rodster, Apr 13, 2008.

  1. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    Ok I just reinstalled Vista Premium on my Vostro 1700. I enabled ACHI and Turbo Memory in the BIOS and installed both drivers in Vista. When I click on the Start Orb, then All Programs I see a program group for Intel Storage Matrix (or something to that effect). If I click on the Intel app it brings up my drive and says everything is working fine. Unfortunately I don't see a program group for Turbo Memory.

    I went to Intel's website and it said that you should see a program group when you go to All Programs that says "Turbo Memory".

    I went to Anandtech's website and did some more digging around and found out it will take several reboots before it appears as a Program Group. Is that true?

    Is there another way to find out if it is in fact running? I went to device manager (system devices) but didn't find anything that matches Turbo Memory.
     
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  2. TonyZ

    TonyZ Notebook Evangelist

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    There should be something to install for that provided by Dell?
    My Toshiba laptop had 2 Turbo memory updates and this is what my Start menu looks like


    edit: here you go. Found this in the Dell site (second picture)
    3rd pic device manager Intel Turbo Mem
     

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    Thanks i'll check into that. I do remember installing those two apps from the DeLL website and I didn't see any changes.

    I've read a lot of mixed reviews regarding Turbo Memory. Does it really improve system performance with a 2GB memory system?
     
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    Update: I went to DeLL's website and downloaded both the turbo memory driver and app. When I went to install the driver it said it found a newer version on my drive and asked it I wanted to replace it? I answered no.

    I installed the turbo memory application and I saw no changes. Oh well. :confused:
     
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    Turbo memory actually hurts system performance is not properly conifgured and when properly configured, offers a negligle boost (1-3%) if the hard drive is slow.
     
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    Yup that's what I read as well. Anandtech was very disappointed with Turbo Memory. Sony and I believe HP have decided not to use it in their laptops.

    I just went ahead and disabled it.
     
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    I have a Dell XPS m1530 and since it did have a slot for the Intel Turbo Memory I bought one. Using a SD or USB flash drive for ReadyBoost is cumbersome. According to reviews the Turbo Memory doesn't really boost performance as much but then again ReadyBoost is only activated if you really need it. Data access is faster through a memory rather from the hard drive's pagefile. Vista's memory management does better if there's lot's of RAM.
     
    kanehi, Apr 14, 2008
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