Intel Turbo Memory?

seraphimvc

hi guys!

getting a new laptop soon but it comes with Vista business which i will defo upgrade its ram to 3Gb - heard terrible stories of this slow Vista .while i did some research on the web found this thing called Intel Turbo Memory which claimed to be speed up booting the OS etc.sound highly appealing to me since i really have had enough 'slow moments' with my 4 years old laptop stuck up with 256 ram due to broken ram slot...

anyone tried it?would i bother to get one for the lappy?it would be so comfy if vista runs as fast as XP while multitasking lots of software at the same time

Umiq88

Vista will run fine its those laptops out there with poor processors and only 1gb of ram and vista will be very sluggish on them.

Im running dell vostra

dual core 2.1ghz proc
3gig ram

and it runs very fast might run slightly faster with xp but i wouldnt be concerned.

Voodu Child

Most people who say Vista runs slow are just regurgitating things they read on the internet, or tests conducted 2 years ago. On average its a touch slower than XP but that's to be expected. Vista runs great with a good system and 2Gb ram.

Most tests ive seen on Turbo Memory suggests it does very little, and isn't really worth spending any extra money on. I wouldn't bother with it unless it came free with the laptop.

seraphimvc

voodoo_child wrote: »

Most people who say Vista runs slow are just regurgitating things they read on the internet, or tests conducted 2 years ago. On average its a touch slower than XP but that's to be expected. Vista runs great with a good system and 2Gb ram.

Most tests ive seen on Turbo Memory suggests it does very little, and isn't really worth spending any extra money on. I wouldn't bother with it unless it came free with the laptop.

thanks dude cant wait for my T8100 2.1Ghz Thinkpad T61!

Cuddlesworth

seraphimvc wrote: »

hi guys!

getting a new laptop soon but it comes with Vista business which i will defo upgrade its ram to 3Gb - heard terrible stories of this slow Vista .while i did some research on the web found this thing called Intel Turbo Memory which claimed to be speed up booting the OS etc.sound highly appealing to me since i really have had enough 'slow moments' with my 4 years old laptop stuck up with 256 ram due to broken ram slot...

anyone tried it?would i bother to get one for the lappy?it would be so comfy if vista runs as fast as XP while multitasking lots of software at the same time

Don't upgrade to 3 gigs of ram, 2 gigs or 4. Ram works better in matched pairs when the system utilises dual channel.

RichyX

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Don't upgrade to 3 gigs of ram, 2 gigs or 4. Ram works better in matched pairs when the system utilises dual channel.

But unless you're running a 64 bit version of Windows the OS can only use 3GB of RAM anyway, no?

AlmightyCushion

voodoo_child wrote: »

Most tests ive seen on Turbo Memory suggests it does very little, and isn't really worth spending any extra money on. I wouldn't bother with it unless it came free with the laptop.

Same here, I haven't seen anything to suggest it's even slightly better than useless.

Jonathan

You are better off increasing the system ram than adding turbo memory.

Cuddlesworth

RichyX wrote: »

But unless you're running a 64 bit version of Windows the OS can only use 3GB of RAM anyway, no?

3.25 but by installing two sticks(1 and 2 gig) you are gimping your system since it uses dual channel ram.

Wiki article here, although I have a problem with the Toms hardware part at the end. Seems more like a plug tbh. And in real world performance with a 3 thousand machines I have seen a big difference between laptops with 3 and 4 gigs.

seraphimvc

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

3.25 but by installing two sticks(1 and 2 gig) you are gimping your system since it uses dual channel ram.

Wiki article here, although I have a problem with the Toms hardware part at the end. Seems more like a plug tbh. And in real world performance with a 3 thousand machines I have seen a big difference between laptops with 3 and 4 gigs.

interesting...i think the spec stated that 3Gb ram is the max,so i shall go for adding 2Gb instead?

p/s:where can i get a reasonable walk-in price of 2Gig DDR2-5300 in dublin/belfield?best if i can test it cause' i can compare it with my own 1Gig ram

Sherifu

I was looking for turbo memory a while back. It was hard to find even to price.

RichyX

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

3.25 but by installing two sticks(1 and 2 gig) you are gimping your system since it uses dual channel ram.

Wiki article here, although I have a problem with the Toms hardware part at the end. Seems more like a plug tbh. And in real world performance with a 3 thousand machines I have seen a big difference between laptops with 3 and 4 gigs.

What about 3GB versus 2GB?
It's easier to replace one stick afterwards than both of them.

If I get a laptop running 32bit windows with 4GB of RAM will the RAM be running at optimal performance, loss of .75GB aside?