T61 slot for Intel turbo memory

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gehageh · #1 Post by **gehageh** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 5:41 am

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

axur-delmeria · #2 Post by **axur-delmeria** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:17 am

As far as I know, all T61's have a Turbo Memory slot.

gehageh · #3 Post by **gehageh** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 5:20 pm

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?

#4 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:47 pm

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.

gehageh · #5 Post by **gehageh** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 2:46 am

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.

#6 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 7:38 am

All T61 fans will work with those CPUs, but the best one would be the T61p fan.

gehageh · #7 Post by **gehageh** » Sun Nov 17, 2013 4:22 am

Hi RMS,
could you give the part number of T61p fan?
George

#8 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:24 am

How about doing a search on the forum?

jcvjcvjcvjcv · #9 Post by **jcvjcvjcvjcv** » Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:25 am

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.

axur-delmeria · #10 Post by **axur-delmeria** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:29 am

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.

FryPpy · #11 Post by **FryPpy** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:32 pm

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).

#12 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:18 pm

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!

jcvjcvjcvjcv · #13 Post by **jcvjcvjcvjcv** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:41 pm

How does that defective Turbo memory manifest itself? Is it the same beep code as the nvidia problem? (1 long, 2 short)?

#14 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:51 pm

Machine doesn't boot...

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