Menu Item | Description |
Video Memory | Displays the amount of video memory. |
System Memory | Specifies whether system memory tests are run during system boot. Options are Enabled and |
Testing | Disabled. By default, the System Memory Testing option is set to Disabled. |
Memory Operating | Specifies the memory operating mode. The options available depending on the memory |
Mode | configuration of your system are Optimizer Mode, Advanced ECC Mode, Mirror Mode, Spare |
| Mode, and Spare with Advanced ECC Mode. By default, the Memory Operating Mode option is |
| set to Optimizer Mode. |
| NOTE: The Memory Operating Mode can have different defaults and available options |
| based on the memory configuration. |
Node Interleaving | If this field is Enabled, memory interleaving is supported if a symmetric memory configuration is |
| installed. If Disabled, the system supports asymmetric |
| (NUMA) memory configurations. By default, Node Interleaving option is set to Disabled. |
Serial Debug Output | By default, it is set to disabled. |
Processor Settings Screen
Menu Item | Description |
Logical Processor | Allows you to enable or disable logical processors and display the number of logical |
| processors. If the Logical Processor option is set to Enabled, the BIOS displays all the logical |
| processors. If this option is set to Disabled, the BIOS only displays one logical processor per |
| core. By default, the Logical Processor option is set to Enabled. |
QPI Speed | Allows you to set the QuickPath Interconnect data rate settings. By default, the QPI Speed |
| option is set to Maximum data rate. |
| NOTE: The QPI speed option displays only when both the processors are installed. |
Alternate RTID | Allows you to allocate more RTIDs to the remote socket increasing cache performance |
(Requestor | between the sockets or work in normal mode for NUMA. By default, the Alternate RTID |
Transaction ID) | (Requestor Transaction ID) Setting is set to Disabled. |
Setting |
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Virtualization | Allows you to enable or disable the additional hardware capabilities provided for virtualization. |
Technology | By default, the Virtualization Technology option is set to Enabled. |
Adjacent Cache Line | Allows you to optimize the system for applications that require high utilization of sequential |
Prefetch | memory access. By default, the Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch option is set to Enabled. You can |
| disable this option for applications that require high utilization of random memory access. |
Hardware Prefetcher | Allows you to enable or disable hardware prefetcher. By default, the Hardware Prefetcher |
| option is set to Enabled. |
DCU Streamer | Allows you to enable or disable Data Cache Unit streamer prefetcher. By default, the DCU |
Prefetcher | Streamer Prefetcher option is set to Enabled. |
DCU IP Prefetcher | Allows you to enable or disable Data Cache Unit IP prefetcher. By default, the DCU IP |
| Prefetcher option is set to Enabled. |
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