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T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 5:41 am
by gehageh
Hi,
as new in this group I have a rather simple question: My T61 is type 7659-12G. Is it possible to kone, without disassembly if it has a slot for turbo memory? I have installed a 320 Gb HD ans the OS is Vista prof.
thanks in advace
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:17 am
by axur-delmeria
As far as I know, all T61's have a Turbo Memory slot.
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 5:20 pm
by gehageh
axur-delmeria wrote:As far as I know, all T61's have a Turbo Memory slot.
many thanks for your reply. I have one more question: can I replace the t7100 CPU with t8300 and t9300? Is it necessary to use Middleton BIOS? Can I use also 80 Mhz memory?
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:47 pm
by RealBlackStuff
Any of these CPUs will work:
T7100
T7300
T7500
T7700
T7800
T8100
T8300
T9300 (most buck for your money)
T9500
X9000
Middleton's BIOS? Definitely.
RAM: either PC2-5300 or PC2-6400 Sodimms, up to 2x4GB = 8GB.
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 2:46 am
by gehageh
RealBlackStuff wrote:Any of these CPUs will work: thank you RBS! I have already bought 1 t8300 for 30 $ and I have put a bid for t9300. Do I need a new fan fpr these CPUs?
George
T7100
T7300
T7500
T7700
T7800
T8100
T8300
T9300 (most buck for your money)
T9500
X9000
Middleton's BIOS? Definitely.
RAM: either PC2-5300 or PC2-6400 Sodimms, up to 2x4GB = 8GB.
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 7:38 am
by RealBlackStuff
All T61 fans will work with those CPUs, but the best one would be the T61p fan.
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 4:22 am
by gehageh
Hi RMS,
could you give the part number of T61p fan?
George
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:24 am
by RealBlackStuff
How about doing a search on the forum?
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:25 am
by jcvjcvjcvjcv
Did the Turbo Memory ever achieve something useful??
All I remember about it is that I explicitly disabled it after installing Windows XP
I just was too lazy to open the thing up and get it out of there.
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:29 am
by axur-delmeria
Did the Turbo Memory ever achieve something useful??
I think the answer was "no".
The slot is useful for add-on cards like the Broadcom CrystalHD though.
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:32 pm
by FryPpy
jcvjcvjcvjcv wrote:Did the Turbo Memory ever achieve something useful??
IMHO - NO.
XP doesn't designed to work with ITM "out of the box".
With 2Gb+ of RAM ITM can't accelerate to mutch. And SSD makes ITM useless (modern SSDs outperform older ITM, but we can't use their SATA III interface).
On T61 (14"W and some 14" 4:3) it is only a waste of second miniPCIe (which primary goal is WWAN card).
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:18 pm
by RealBlackStuff
I bought a presumably defective T61 very cheap from a forum member here.
The only problem was a defective turbo-memory!
After I removed it, it worked like a charm!
I've come across 2 more T61 with bad turbo-memory, so nowadays I just remove it, without even testing!
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:41 pm
by jcvjcvjcvjcv
How does that defective Turbo memory manifest itself? Is it the same beep code as the nvidia problem? (1 long, 2 short)?
Re: T61 slot for Intel turbo memory
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:51 pm
by RealBlackStuff
Machine doesn't boot...