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t400s 16g memory
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 4:53 am
by pdudas
Hi!
Is it supported by the hardware?
Thanks!
Re: t400s 16g memory
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:23 am
by Harryc
A T400s only has (2) RAM slots. I don't believe 8GB memory sticks exist for laptops, so this would not be possible.
Re: t400s 16g memory
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:50 pm
by pdudas
Harryc wrote:A T400s only has (2) RAM slots. I don't believe 8GB memory sticks exist for laptops, so this would not be possible.
I just seen a Dell Precision M6500 with 16GB memory. Was really fast...
Turbo memory? I want to use the memory as cache. (paing file etc...).
I have 2GB turbo memory, I removed because I have SSD drives (2nd HDD as well).
Re: t400s 16g memory
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 4:20 pm
by Colonel O'Neill
Using the Turbo Memory as a swap file is a particularly bad idea; you don't want to incur high write counts to the flash memory.
If you have an SSD or a well-defragged HDD and are still finding your system slow despite having 4GB of RAM, then you should consider getting rid of the junk on your OS. I'm running on 2.6GB of RAM and find my system very fast despite having a conventional platter drive.
Re: t400s 16g memory
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:49 pm
by pdudas
Hi!
I just worked on that DELL Precision M6500 and was extremely fast.
It had 2 SSD in raid and 16GB memory. Also a good dedicated video card.
I try to get that speed, maybe one SSD (220/200) is not enough in my T400s.
Believe me, my Windows7 is has no factory preinstalled things, the first thing was to reinstall it.
So i still trying to find how can I make the system more faster. Processor should be enough, SSD should be enough (my usual work is not so HDD intensive).
Re: t400s 16g memory
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:04 pm
by Colonel O'Neill
Actually, the preinstalled image is faster than a fresh install due to the extensive amounts of driver and software optimizations Lenovo did. All you have to do is uninstall Norton and Office 2007; the other stuff don't affect the system after you disable their respective services.
As for faster, get eBoostr. Although it is primarily designed to supplement platter drives whose random read speeds are deficient, it can equally help SSDs by allowing parallel reads. The highest version can also use system RAM to cache files, which clocks in with read speeds of 3000MB/s, which is undeniably faster than the SSD's read speeds of 100MB/s.