jonspencerbx Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 (edited) Intel today released version 1.8.0.1018 of it's turbo memory driver. This release includes: Intel® Turbo Memory Driver Revision: 1.8.0.1018 Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Driver Revision: 8.6.0.1007 Download: English Multi-language Release notes Turbo Memory driver Release notes Matrix Storage Manager driver Regards, M. Edited March 14, 2009 by jonspencerbx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 I've read about this, but i'm missing something vital. WHere to get the hardware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrial Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 it usually comes with the laptop... some new Asus laptops here in Singapore has got it, 1GB... like for my laptop, it has got the slot for it, but no Turbo Memory came with it and the feature is disabled in the BIOS... BenQ's explanation is that Turbo Memory (only got 512MB at that time) offers no significant performance boost except for shaving off a few seconds during startup... i think u re better off getting a thumbdrive or hi-speed SD card... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 The ICH9 (10 as well?) should have it included, but then again it's apparantly up to the OEM to included or not. So it seems there is no way to buy/upgrade it seperately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrial Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 yup, it's all up to the OEMs... i dun mind getting one if there's 4GB version... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonspencerbx Posted July 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 (edited) IT's possible to order it online. See here for example. It doesn't only improve boottimes, it also speeds up regularly used programs. The turbo memory principle consits of two things: first is the intel turbo memory module (which utilizes windows readyboost) Second is a hybrid hdd. The hybrid hdd utilizes the windows readydrive feature. Since I've got both the hybrid hdd and the intel turbo memory module, I can tell you it realy does work (on my notebook with 4gb RAM). Boot times improve and regularly used apps load faster. It takes a while before everything works optimal. In the first few weeks your notebook may even be a bit slower because of the caching, but after things settle down, it does seem to work pretty good. Edited July 29, 2008 by jonspencerbx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 Interesting. Finally someone shares his real-world experience. Thanks for this. I'm sick of reading announcements, marketing bla and delusive reviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marftarf Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 I have this too in the Toshiba A200GE-26Q, 1GB total with 512M for readyboost and 512M for readydrive. when it's working it does speed things up - but some bugs remain particularly with standby/sleep and resuming, that mean sometimes rather than speeding things up after resuming, the whole computer freezes forcing me to do a hard reboot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 Hi marftarf welcome back with your new laptop. ATI though :) , but then again you might want to join the LV2GO Folding@Home team ( http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index....showtopic=19230 ) with an almighty ATI GPU client :) What happened to the 5200? I have no doubt that INTEL will update the software regularly. Please keep us informed about this interesting technology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marftarf Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Hi again ®®®! The 5200 had three major problems: the speakers became extremely distorted so it was no longer possible to watch videos or listen to music from it without plugging it into external speakers; it couldn't churn through some video files fast enough so playback in a lot of things was very choppy; then the hinges on the screen started to go so it wouldn't stay up on its own. Plus it was too heavy to drag around & I've had to be travelling a lot lately. But it is still in service hooked up to a 2nd wireless router and a printer, set to hibernate with wake on lan, stripped down pretty much just to xp sp3 and a browser, where it serves very well as a print server... Actually, I think the screen on the 5200 was probably the best i've ever seen on a laptop, so too bad I couldn't find a way to keep it in use, and vista sometimes drives me nuts particularly coupled with this intel turbo irritant on standby. And this new toshiba for some reason plays DVDs at less than 50% of the audio volume of anything else - very frustrating! Is your 5205 still your main machine? If so I'm jealous of its build quality! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 No unfortunately not. The VideoCard/VRAM died overheated or whatever (see here http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index....showtopic=11164 for screenshots of the symptoms). I agree with the build and screen quality. I've worked on hundreds of more recent laptops, but none can compete with it. Even the features like Firewire, 3 USB 2.0, WLAN, 2 HDs, DVD-Burner, 1600x1200 LCD, Sound Volume wheel, the keyboard, Harman/Kardon speakers with Subwoofer, and the cPad are still better than what they sell in mid-range laptops now years later. It#s really only limited by the chipset only allowing 1GB of RAM and the P4-M 2.6 as maximum, and the GPU not upgradeable. And no SATA :) But hey that was 6 years ago. Also no INTEL Turbo Memory :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonspencerbx Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 First post updated for the new 1.7 release. Lot's of stability fixes in this release. The included Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Driver is now on version 8.5 (up from version 8.0) Regards, M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^nox Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 (edited) Scratch that ! :) Edited April 13, 2009 by ^nox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3v Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 (edited) This thread was not updated so I'm including the link to the latest (but still not new) drivers for Vista and WIndows 7, 32 and 64 bit versions. http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18011&ProdId=2813〈=eng I have the 4GB module and Windows ReadyBoost has never been enabled on my computer. It is greyed out, with seemingly no way to rectify the situation. The problem is, the module is not seen as a drive, for Windows to realise it can be used this way. The ReadyDrive function seems to be working okay. I must admit though, my computer was already quite immediate, with its 6MB L2 CPU cache and 4GB memory anyway, so it's hard to tell. I did install the card AFTER I installed Windows 7. I wonder if it would've made any difference? They do mention on the Intel site, the fact that something is unavailable for a similar chipset to mine. Why then would Dell offer the 1GB Turbo Memory as an option, if it was not fully compatible? Edited December 10, 2009 by d3v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo64 Posted May 18, 2010 Report Share Posted May 18, 2010 New Rapid Storage drivers v9.6.2.1001 released Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shakennstirred Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 now updated to 1.10 http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=2813&DwnldID=18011&ProductFamily=Chipsets&ProductLine=Chipset+Software&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+Turbo+Memory〈=eng Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animagus Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 THANX MATE !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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