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News

IDF: Core i7 Will Feature A Turbo Mode
Wednesday 20 August 2008 – 12:20
Intel has announced it will feature a Turbo Mode in its upcoming Core i7 processors
MSI Brings Back the Turbo Button
Tuesday 27 May 2008 – 06:00
Turbo buttons on the PCs went extinct after the 386/486-era. But now it appears that MSI will be trying to resurrect it for the button happy crowd with the MSI GeForce N9600 GT Diamond graphics card. After some reconstructive surgery, MSI turned the slee
Sony and HP ditch Intel's Turbo Memory
Thursday 7 June 2007 – 11:51
Intel 's Turbo Memory will not appear in notebooks from leading brands HP and Sony
Motherboard makers pessimistic about Turbo Memory in desktop
Thursday 14 June 2007 – 12:09
As Intel makes plans to transfer Turbo Memory (Robson) technology to the desktop market, several motherboard makers think the performance boost from Turbo Memory is not obvious, and therefore they predict the technology will only attract high-end users in the desktop market
Intel's Robson gets a real name: Turbo Memory
Thursday 15 March 2007 – 12:33
Intel revealed more news about its upcoming flash cache technology. Code-named "Robson", the add-in card is now officially called "Turbo Memory" and promises to accelerate application startups on notebooks.

Articles & reviews

Is Intel's 'Turbo Memory' really turbo?*
Friday 11 May 2007 – 12:19
Flash memory is great for portable USB drives and cameras, but does it belong on your motherboard? ...
Turbo Drive: Two Dual Boards with 2000 MHz*
Thursday 1 February 2001 – 06:00
In this contest, Intel 815E and VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipsets are competing against each other on dual processor grounds. We tested two boards - the Acorp 6A815D and the Asus CUV4X-D - under Windows 2000 Pro and Suse Linux 6.4.
T is for Turbo: The Hitachi DeskStar T7K250*
Monday 23 May 2005 – 07:00
With its redesigned 250 GB model, Hitachi is adding a drive to its product portfolio for both mainstream purchasers and potential upgraders. Even if you are using older 40 GB and 80 GB drives, this is a worthy upgrade.
HomePlug Turbo Adapter Round-Up*
Monday 6 February 2006 – 03:30
HomePlug "Turbo" technology prominently touts that it delivers data at "up to 85 Mbps" rates. But Tim Higgins found that the usual games that manufacturers play with throughput claims has been taken to new lows with these products.
Can Command Queuing Turbo Charge SATA?*
Tuesday 16 November 2004 – 06:00
It's becoming harder to improve hard drive performance, but vendors claim command queuing helps. We determined whether the technology is another marketing buzzword or a real, non-artificial hard drive enhancement for SATA applications.