Reference Guide

New BIOS Setup Options
Processor Settings Screen
Power Management Screen
Option Description
Number of Cores per Processor
(All default)
Allows you to control the number of enabled
cores (up to eight) in each processor.
L2 Cache Displays the level 2 cache size (up to 8 MB).
L3 Cache Displays the level 3 cache size
(up to 8 MB per socket).
Core Performance Boost Mode
(Enabled default)
NOTE: Also known as Turbo CORE.
In this mode, workloads using a lesser number
of cores boost the exercised cores to higher
performance states.
Option Description
Power Management Options are OS Control, Custom, and
Maximum Performance. The BIOS pre-
configures the power settings on this screen as
follows:
• OS Control sets the processor power to OS
DBPM
, the fan power to Minimum Power ,
and the memory power to
Maximum
Performance
. In this setting, all processor
performance information is passed from the
system BIOS to the operating system for
control. The operating system sets the
processor performance based on processor
utilization.
•
Maximum Performance sets all fields to
Maximum Performance .
• If you select
Custom , you can configure each
option independently.