Dell E43S Series Installation And Service Manual page 32

Option Description
Virtualization Enables you to control the QuickPath Interconnect data rate settings.
Technology
Adjacent Cache Optimizes the system for applications that need high utilization of sequential memory access. This option is set to
Line Prefetch Enabled by default. You can disable this option for applications that need high utilization of random memory
access.
Hardware Enables or disables the hardware prefetcher. This option is set to Enabled by default.
Prefetcher
DCU Streamer Enables or disables the Data Cache Unit (DCU) streamer prefetcher. This option is set to Enabled by default.
Prefetcher
DCU IP Prefetcher Enables or disables the Data Cache Unit (DCU) IP prefetcher. This option is set to Enabled by default.
Sub NUMA Cluster Enables or disables the Sub NUMA Cluster. This option is set to Disabled by default.
Logical Processor Enables you to improve the energy efficiency of a system. It uses the operating system core parking algorithm and
Idling parks some of the logical processors in the system which in turn allows the corresponding processor cores to
transition into a lower power idle state. This option can only be enabled if the operating system supports it. It is set
to Disabled by default.
X2APIC Mode Enables or disables the X2APIC mode. This option is set to Disabled by default.
Dell Controlled Controls the turbo engagement. Enable this option only when System Profile is set to Disabled.
Turbo
Number of Cores Controls the number of enabled cores in each processor. This option is set to All by default.
per Processor
Processor Core Specifies the maximum core frequency of the processor.
Speed
Processor n
The following settings are displayed for each processor installed in the system:
Option
Family-Model-
Stepping
Brand
Level 2 Cache
Level 3 Cache
Number of Cores
SATA Settings
You can use the SATA Settings screen to view the SATA settings of SATA devices and enable SATA on your system.
NOTE: The XC Series system does not support the NVDIMM-N, RAID, or UEFI settings.
32 Pre-operating system management applications
NOTE: Depending on the number of processors, there might be up to four processors listed.
Description
Specifies the family, model, and stepping of the processor as defined by Intel.
Specifies the brand name.
Specifies the total L2 cache.
Specifies the total L3 cache.
Specifies the number of cores per processor.