Bull Cedoc NovaScale R423, Installation And User Manual

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for ITK testing. The default setting is Branch 1 .
Snoop Filter
Select Enabled to eliminate snoop traffi c to the graphics port to greatly improve
system performance when running graphics intensive applications. The options
are Enabled and Disabled.
Crystal Beach Features
Select Enabled to use the Intel I/O AT (Acceleration Technology) to accelerate
the performance of TOE devices. (Note: A TOE device is a specialized, dedicated
processor that is installed on an add-on card or a network card to handle some
or all packet processing of this add-on card. For this motherboard, the TOE
device is built inside the ESB 2 South Bridge chip.) The options are Enabled
and Disabled.
Route Port 80h Cycles to
This feature allows the user to decide which bus to send debug information to. The
options are Disabled, PCI and LPC .
High Precision Event Time
Select Yes to activate the High Precision Event Timer (HPET), which is capable
of producing periodic interrupts at a much higher frequency than a Real-time
Clock (RTC) can in synchronizing multimedia streams, providing smooth playback
and reducing the dependency on other timestamp calculation devices, such as
an x86 RDTSC Instruction embedded in a CPU. The High Precision Event Timer
is used to replace the 8254 Programmable Interval Timer. The options for this
feature are Yes and No .
USB Function
Select Enabled to enable the function of USB devices specifi ed. The settings are
Enabled and Disabled.
Legacy USB Support
This setting allows you to enable support for Legacy USB devices. The settings
are Enabled and Disabled.
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Advanced Processor Options
Access the submenu to make changes to the following settings.
CPU Speed
This is a display that indicates the speed of the installed processor.
Frequency Ratio
(Available when supported by the CPU.)
The feature allows the user to set the internal frequency multiplier for the CPU.
The options are: Default, x12, x13, x14, x15, x16, x17 and x18.