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Hyper Threading [Enabled]
This item allows you to enable/disable the Intel Hyper-Threading Technology function. Enable
for Windows XP and Linux or disable for other OS. When disabled, only one thread per
activated core is enabled.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Active Processor Cores [All]
This item sets the number of cores to enable in each processor package.
Configuration options: [All] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Limit CPUID Maximum [Disabled]
Setting this item to [Enabled] allows legacy operating system to boot even without support for
CPUs with extended CPUID functions.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Execute Disable Bit [Enabled]
XP can prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined with
a supporting OS (Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP2, SuSE Linux 9.2, Redhat
Enterprise 3 Update 3).
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Server Class [Custom]
Use Intel recommended prefetch settings.
Configuration options: [Enterprise] [High Performance(HPC)] [Custom]
You can only customize the items below when you enable the Server Class to [Custom].
Hardware Prefetcher [Enabled]
This item allows you to turn on/off the mid level cache(L2) streamer prefetcher.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch [Enabled]
This item allows you to turn on/off prefetching of adjacent cache lines.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
DCU Streamer Prefetcher [Enabled]
This item allows you to enable/disable prefetching of next L1 data line based upon
multiple loads in same cache line.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
DCU IP Prefetcher [Enabled]
This item allows you to enable/disable prefetching of next L1 line based upon
sequential load history.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
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