Turbo Memory Drivers For Mac
Over a month ago Intel finally, codenamed Santa Rosa. 
Architecturally, Santa Rosa didn't offer much over its predecessor, Napa. The new platform bumped the FSB frequency to 800MHz, as well as introduced a new lower power FSB state (400MHz) to help keep power consumption in check while raising the peak performance bar.
Turbo Memory's neatly designed tab interface segregates the many options. The problem is there are so many options most users won't how to accurately set this utility. Intel® Customer Support home page. Download Drivers and Software. View and download specific drivers and software for your system. This tool will download and update the correct Intel Turbo Memory driver versions automatically, protecting you against installing the wrong Turbo Memory drivers. About The Author: Jay Geater is the President and CEO of Solvusoft Corporation, a global software company focused on providing innovative utility software. Learn more about Home 2.0 at pny.com.
CPU clock speeds improved slightly due to the higher FSB, the fastest chip going from 2.33GHz to 2.40GHz, but overall performance hasn't been improved noticeably. Santa Rosa was the second Centrino platform to add 802.11n support, as its predecessor (Napa) was refreshed to include support for the new wireless standard. The one unique feature that Santa Rosa offered that no other competing mobile platform, Intel or not, could bring to the table was a technology called Turbo Memory. An on-motherboard flash card, Intel's Turbo Memory is designed to act as another layer in the memory hierarchy, caching data where possible and improving performance/battery life in notebooks. A version of Turbo Memory will also be released for the desktop, but we're most interested in what it can do for notebooks. In we found that Turbo Memory did very little in fact. Performance didn't improve (in some cases it got worse), we couldn't find any measurable reduction in power consumption and in the end we found absolutely no use for the technology.
Notebook makers echoed our sentiments, with both HP and Sony declining to use Intel's Turbo Memory in their Santa Rosa lineups, but Intel insisted that there was an upside to the technology. We met with Intel engineers to understand a bit more about Turbo Memory and why we weren't able to see any positive results out of it. Intel's explanation and the resultant lightbulb that lit in our heads, led to the production of this article.
Driver Turbo Free
31 Comments • - Thursday, June 21, 2007 - It seems readyboost only helps with subsequent reads rather than the initial read, so it makes no sense as to why it would help in the case of watching a movie because the data is never repeated. I guess it just keeps the drive from idling because its farther between reads.
I think this would help a lot for students, when I sit in class for an hour or two taking notes I'm only using one program so theoretically it would never have to access the hard drive for the whole class time. If a student had classes back to back without a way to charge (which is often the case) this technology could make a noticeable difference.
Turbo Driver Tool
• - Thursday, June 21, 2007 - It could help with movies if it's used as a read-ahead cache. Once the OS sees that the movie file has been read, it loads the whole of the movie into flash (or as much as would fit.) Also, if you're working in class with just word (or onenote) open, your hard drive should be pretty inactive anyway.
Once the program is loaded into ram then the drive isn't read from. If you have an autosave feature turned on then that would hit the HD, but having the file on an external flash drive would get around that anyway. • - Saturday, November 07, 2009 - I have a 4GB Turbo Memory card installed, $65. I think the article could use a little update to reflect on the availability of faster and larger Turbo Memory cards at lower prices, to examine their overall effectiveness in this (newer?) format and pricing.
