Intel Turbo Memory Card 1GB | List Price: $38.81
Discount Price: $26.48
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Brand: Intel
Binding: Personal Computers
Features: - Reduce boot time - Faster access to boot-up files lets the system start up more quickly.
- Improve application responsiveness - Data coming from Intel Turbo memory instead of the hard drive increases access speed.
- Accelerate application loading - Fast access by the processor to information needed to launch applications cuts lag time.
- Enhance Windows Vista - Support for Windows Vista performance features like ReadyBoost*, ReadyDrive*, and Superfetch* helps you take better advantage of the operating system.
- Save energy - Pre-storing information reduces hard-disk spin time, which saves power.
Worth it? Maybe. [Posted on 2007-12-02]
For about the price of a nice dinner by yourself, you can obtain this card. Caching is nothing new to computers and the idea of having a separate 1gb cache seems like a great idea. To use this item you have to have a computer equipped with the Turbo Cache card slot. I have an Inspiron 1720 and this is found right next to my WIFI card slot. The advantage of having that is that you do not have to occupy a USB port or SD card slot to benefit from the caching. I also imagine that this slot is hard wired to the computer using a whole separate buss making it faster.
But question is does it do what it promises. It does to some degree. I do see a small decrease in boot times. Also the programs that I use daily do load and perform much faster. I cannot say that I am saving battery power because of less disk access, but that is really a hard call since I recharge my laptop every night.
Ultimately, this is a feel good item for the most part. If you have an empty slot in your laptop, fill it. If you are looking for a massive performance boost, it would be better to consider upgrading the 5400 rpm hard drive to a 7200 rpm drive. Or if you are still floating in the 1gb RAM or less club, consider going to 2gb in Vista. Those are the real icing on the cake. This is just the little flower decoration that makes it look a little more appetizing.
System does not boot up faster [Posted on 2008-02-15]
This product does not make your system boot up faster but it will help you to speed up a little bit during your system recover from hibernate.
The only best thing about this product is that it reduce the need to access the HDD significantly (Maybe able to expand HDD life span and save some power?).
Is it working? [Posted on 2008-02-22]
Just installed today, did not notice any benefit. Works only with Windows Vista in an E-PCI slot. No noticeable improvement, no increase in Experience score either. Have not run any benchmarks yet.
Helpful [Posted on 2008-05-14]
The Intel Turbo Memory chip did help in opening programs that I use often. The most noticeable difference is that, before I installed this chip, Microsoft Office 2007 opened slower. With the addition of this chip, it opens quicker. It definetly helps loading programs faster. Price is extremely reasonable also.
Turbo Memory is Turbo Great [Posted on 2008-06-01]
I think this is a great thing to have. It does speed up the startup time and adds a bit more space to my loaded computer.
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