Advanced Menu

This option displays a table of items that defines advanced information about your system.

CAUTION: Making incorrect settings to items on these pages may cause the system to malfunction. Unless you have experience adjusting these items, we recommend that you leave these settings at the default values. If making settings to items on these pages causes your system to malfunction or prevents the system from booting, open BIOS and choose Load Optimal Defaults in the Exit menu to boot up normally.

CPU Configuration

Option

Description

 

 

Virtualization Technology

Enable this option when the processor supports VT.

(VT) (Disabled default)

A full reset is needed to change its state.

 

 

Execute-Disable Bit

Forces the XD feature flag to always return 0.

Capability (Enabled default)

 

 

 

C1E Support

Enable this option to enable or disable the Enhanced

(Enabled default)

Halt State.

 

 

Hardware Prefetcher

For UP Platforms, leave it enabled. For DP/MP

(Enabled default)

servers, it may used to tune performance to the

 

specific application.

 

 

Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch

Enable this option to enable or disable the Adjacent

(Disabled default)

Cache Line Prefetch Disable Feature.

 

 

Hyper-Threading Technology

When Disabled only one thread per enabled core

(HT) (Enabled default)

is enabled.

 

 

Intel(R) TurboMode tech

Turbo mode allows processor cores to run faster than

(Disabled default)

marked frequency in specific condition.

Using the System Setup Program

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Dell C6100 owner manual Advanced Menu, CPU Configuration