3 Chapter

3.5.1CPU Configuration

The items in this menu show the CPU-related information that the BIOS automatically detects.

The items shown in this screen may be different due to the CPU you installed.

Intel Adaptive Thermal Monitor [Enabled]

[Disabled]

Disables the CPU thermal monitor function.

[Enabled]

Enables the overheated CPU to throttle its clock speed to cool down.

Hyper-threading [Enabled]

The Intel Hyper-Threading Technology allows a hyper-threading processor to appear as two logical processors to the operating system, allowing the operating system to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously.

[Disabled]

Only one thread per activated core is enabled.

[Enabled]

Two threads per activated core are enabled.

Active Processor Cores [All]

Allows you to choose the number of CPU cores to activate in each processor package. Configuration options: [All] or by CPU specification

Limit CPUID Maximum [Disabled]

[Enabled]

Allows legacy operating systems to boot even without support for CPUs

 

with extended CPUID functions.

[Disabled]

For Windows® XP OS, select this option to disable this function.

3-18

Chapter 3: BIOS setup