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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
4.4.2 Power & Performance
AVX [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the AVX 2/3 Instructions. This is applicable for Big Core only.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
AVX3 [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the AVX 3 Instructions. This is applicable for Big Core only.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Active Processor Cores [All]
Allows you to set the number of cores to enable in each processor package.
Configuration options: [All] [1] [2] [3]
Hyper-Threading [Enabled]
Allows a hyper-threading processor to appear as two logical processors, allowing the
operating system to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously.
[Enabled] For two threads per activated core.
[Disabled] For only one thread per activated core.
BIST [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable BIST (Built-In Self Test) on reset.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
AES [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Intel Trusted Execution Technology [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable utilization of additional hardware capabilities provided by
Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology. Changes require a full power cycle to take effect.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
CPU - Power Management Control
Boot performance mode [Turbo Performance]
This item allows you to select the performance state that the BIOS will set starting from reset
vector.
Configuration options: [Max Battery] [Max Non-Turbo Performance] [Turbo Performance]
Intel(R) SpeedStep(tm) [Enabled]
Allows more than two frequency ranges to be supported.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]