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4gb turbo memory for the m1730?

post #1 of 6
4/1/09 at 11:33pm
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the m1730 has a slot for the turbo memory under the keyboard correct? if it does, would the 4gb turbo memory work with the m1730, or is it limited to only 1gb? will the m1730 read this as having 8gb memory? will i see a difference in performance gains, boot time and loading applications like Adobe Cs4? i have 4gb ram installed right now with raid 0 200gb HD.
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post #2 of 6
4/2/09 at 12:33am
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just chated with a dell rep. and it won't do anything but save life from the battery and the hardrive. but it will load some apps 2-3 times faster. its a video memory increase. not ram so it will only show up as 4gb ram. m1730 will support up to 3gb intel turbo memory. 1gb will not make a big difference. where as 3gb will make enough difference to bigger apps.
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post #3 of 6
4/2/09 at 11:48pm
That turbo memory is nothing more than a flash based swap-file. it might have better performance than the HDD but the end result will not be an increase in RAM.
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post #4 of 6
4/10/09 at 3:44am
The current max that the M1730 supports is the 2GB module. I cant possibly imagine what you could possibly want with more than 4GBs of ram? Im barely able to use 3GB in vista!
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post #5 of 6
4/10/09 at 4:51pm
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if you play games like crysis, you will see the difference with 4gb memory ram and having 2gb memory ram when there is fire fights. the tech i talked to said that the m1730 can hold up to 4gb intel turbo memory. regular memory rams is 8gb.
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post #6 of 6
4/14/09 at 4:42am
I have a Precision M2300 which also has a Mini PCI-E slot under the keyboard. The 4GB Turbo Memory module works just fine. The driver will automatically activate the Dashboard during driver installation.
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