Tomcat i7230A S5160 

                                                                  Chapter 3: BIOS Setup 

3.3.2 Advanced Processor Options 

This section allows you to fine tune the processor options. 

Hyperthreading 

Enable this only if you have an Intel Hyper Threading processor. 

Hyper Threading Technology enables multi threaded software applications to execute threads 

in parallel. Hyper Threading Technology provides thread level parallelism (TLP) on each 

processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. As a result, 

resource utilization yields higher processing throughput. Hyper Threading Technology is a 

form of simultaneous multi threading technology (SMT) where multiple threads of software 

applications can be run simultaneously on one processor. This is achieved by duplicating the 

architectural state on each processor, while sharing one set of processor execution resources. 

Hyper Threading Technology also delivers faster response times for multi tasking workload 

environments. By allowing the processor to use on die resources that would otherwise have 

been idle, Hyper Threading Technology provides a performance boost on multi threading and 

multi tasking operations for the Intel NetBurst  microarchitecture. 

Enabled / Disabled 

Single Logical Proc. Mode 

This feature is used to enable the Single Logical Processor mode. 

Disabled/ Enabled 

L3 Cache 

This feature is used to enable the L3 cache funtionality. 

Enabled / Disabled 

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