Asus Z9PE-D16-10G/DUAL - Manual (Page 80)

4-12 Chapter 4: BIOS setup
Socket 1 CPU Information
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Hyper Threading [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the Intel ® Hyper-Threading Technology function. When
disabled, only one thread per activated core is enabled.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Active Processor Cores [All]
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]
XD 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]
Hardware Prefetcher [Enabled]
This Item allows you to turn on/off the mid level cache(L2) streamer prefetcher.Configuration
options: [Disabled] [Enabled]