User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Setup
- 2.1 Chassis cover
- 2.2 Air ducts
- 2.3 Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- 2.4 System memory
- 2.5 Storage devices
- 2.6 Expansion slots
- 2.6.1 Installing an expansion card to the front PCIe riser card bracket (on select models)
- 2.6.2 Installing an ASUS PIKE II card
- 2.6.3 Installing an HBA/RAID card
- 2.6.4 Installing an expansion card to the rear left PCIe expansion card bracket (on select models)
- 2.6.5 Installing an expansion card to the rear right PCIe expansion card bracket (on select models)
- 2.6.6 Installing an OCP 3.0 card to the rear right OCP 3.0 socket board (on select models)
- 2.6.7 (optional) Installing the PFR module
- 2.7 Cable connections
- 2.8 Removable/optional components
- 2.9 Installing GPU cards
- 2.10 Installing Optional Kits
- Chapter 3: BIOS Setup
- 3.1 Managing and updating your BIOS
- 3.2 BIOS setup program
- 3.3 Main menu
- 3.4 Performance Tuning menu
- 3.5 Advanced menu
- 3.5.1 Trusted Computing
- 3.5.2 PSP Firmware Versions
- 3.5.3 Redfish Host Interface Settings
- 3.5.4 AMD CBS
- 3.5.5 APM Configuration
- 3.5.6 Serial Port Console Redirection
- 3.5.7 CPU Configuration
- 3.5.8 PCI Subsystem Settings
- 3.5.9 USB Configuration
- 3.5.10 Network Stack Configuration
- 3.5.11 CSM Configuration
- 3.5.12 NVMe Configuration
- 3.5.13 SATA Configuration
- 3.5.14 AMD Mem Configuration Status
- 3.5.15 Tls Auth Configuration
- 3.6 Chipset menu
- 3.7 Security menu
- 3.8 Boot menu
- 3.9 Tool menu
- 3.10 Save & Exit menu
- 3.11 Event Logs menu
- 3.12 Server Mgmt menu
- Chapter 4: Driver Installation
- Appendix
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ASUS ESC8000A-E11
The following items appear only when Custom Pstate0 is set to [Custom].
Pstate0 Freq (MHz) [0]
Allows you to specify core frequency (MHz).
CCD/Core/Thread Enablement
This option allows you to enable CCD/Core/Thread Enablement.
S3 is not supported on systems where cores/threads have been removed/disabled.
CCD Control [Auto]
Sets the number of CCDs to be used. Once this option has been used
to remove any CCDs, a POWER CYCLE is required in order for future
selections to take effect.
Configuration options: [Auto] [2 CCDs] [3 CCDs] [4 CCDs] [6 CCDs]
Core Control [Auto]
Sets the number of cores to be used. Once this option has been used
to remove any cores, a POWER CYCLE is required in order for future
selections to take effect.
Configuration options: [Auto] [ONE (1 + 0)] [TWO (2 + 0)] [THREE (3 +
0)] [FOUR (4 + 0)] [FIVE (5 + 0)] [SIX (6 + 0)] [SEVEN (7 + 0)]
SMT Control [Auto]
Can be used to disable symmetric multithreading. To re-enable SMT, a
POWER CYCLE is needed after selecting the [Enable] option. Select [Auto]
based on BIOS PCD (PcdAmdSmtMode) default setting.
Configuration options: [Disable] [Enable] [Auto]
S3 is not supported on systems where cores/threads have been removed/disabled.
Prefetcher settings
L1 Stream HW Prefetcher [Auto]
Allows you to enable or disable L1 Stream HW Prefetcher.
Configuration options: [Disable] [Enable] [Auto]
L1 Stride Prefetcher [Auto]
Uses memory access history of individual instructions to fetch additional lines
when each access is a constant distance from the previous.
Configuration options: [Disable] [Enable] [Auto]
L1 Region Prefetcher [Auto]
Uses memory access history to fetch additional lines when the data access for
a given instruction tends to be followed by other data accesses.
Configuration options: [Disable] [Enable] [Auto]
L2 Stream HW Prefetcher [Auto]
Allows you to enable or disable L2 Stream HW Prefetcher.
Configuration options: [Disable] [Enable] [Auto]
L2 Up/Down Prefetcher [Auto]
Uses memory access history to determine whether to fetch the next or previous
line for all memory access.
Configuration options: [Disable] [Enable] [Auto]