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BIOS Settings
Table 6-19
Processor > Processor Configuration
Parameter
Description
Default Setting /
Format
Active Cores
Input the number of CPU cores you want to
enable. In the Help information area, it will
display the effective values you can set and
the maximum number of physical cores
according to the current CPU usage.
The default value is 0, all cores enabled.
0
Hyper Threading
Technology
Enable/disable the hyper threading
technology
Options: Enabled/Disabled
Enabled
Max CPUID Value Limit
Enable/disable the max CPUID value limit.
Options: Enabled/Disabled
NOTE: When the legacy OS boot does not
support CPUID function, this item needs to
set to [Enabled].
Disabled
Intel TXT Support
Enable/disable the Intel Trusted Execution
Technology function.
Options: Enabled/Disabled
Disabled
VMX
Enable/disable the Intel virtual machine
extensions function.
Options: Enabled/Disabled
Enabled
SMX
Enable/disable the safe mode extension
function.
Options: Enabled/Disabled
Disabled
Hardware Prefetcher
Prefetch the instructions or data from
memory to L2 cache before CPU processing
these instructions or data, to shorten the
memory reading time, in order to eliminate
potential bottlenecks and to improve system
performance.
Options: Enabled/Disabled
Enabled
L2 RFO Prefetch
Disable
Enable/disable the L2 RFO prefetch.
Options: Enabled/Disabled
Disabled
Adjacent Cache
Prefetch
If this item set to [Enabled], when computer
is reading data, it will intelligently consider
the adjacent data is needed as well, and it
will prefetch these data during data
processing, to speed up the reading process.
Options: Enabled/Disabled
Enabled