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Intel Turbo Memory for Desktops?
Author: Richard SwinburnePublished: 7th June 2007
This is as close as you'll ever get for the time being, unfortunately. Unless you buy a Santa Rosa notebook.
Why so? Surely a Robson module on desktops will not only make use of PCI-Express, it'll bring Intel more money and it'll also improve performance for everyone.
No one has yet given a concrete reason, only speculation and also stating that it may be as late as next year when we get one. And by that time we will see version two arrive with a 4GB module and more performance.
Can you hack one in? Surely the support is there on the chipset and a bit of NAND with a PCI-Express controller can't be that hard to do? Apparently not, as Intel has locked everything down. Thus, it'll take a lot of reverse BIOS engineering to get it to work properly.
There is yet more hidden technology inside Intel's 3-series chipsets, it seems...
For those slightly out the loop, Turbo Memory was first shown off on Intel's new Santa Rosa platform for laptops. It makes use of both ReadyDrive and ReadyBoost by using a 1GB NAND flash module on a PCI-Express connection. It speeds up application performance by having a far greater I/O than any hard drive, meaning pagefile access is faster. Sure, you can plonk in a fast USB stick but PCI-Express has more bandwidth over a dedicated connection and is more integrated into the system.
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I'd probably buy one though, or pay more money for it to be included in the motherboard.
...but hey, maybe I'm just being paranoid.
^^ how your post appears on a machine powered by a 3 series Intel board.
I actually have a photo of that text appearing on a stand.
Remember, just because they arnet visible doesnt mean they're not after YOU
useing an USB stick in my pc to use readyboost slows my games down makes them stutter more but i am guessing thats the USB interface doing that on an PCI-E interface it supports 256MB Each way
if buying an vista pc does not matter what specs it has as long it has 2gb of ram (dual core cpu should be min tho)
if playing games on Vista get at least 3gb ram {so get an 4gb Kit 2x2GB, even if your useing vista 32 bit (it only see 3.2gb out of the 4gb but thats not an problem) or thinking of getting vista 64 later on} or the games will suffer on High detail levels {BF2142 for e.g. {need to get my other 2x1gb replaced pc does not post with them in}
i find games run not that well on vista any way vista looks nice superfetch works as intended DX10 hmm only Company of heros (1.7v) has DX10 support (looks very cool tho)