EXPC-1319 Series Hardware
BIOS Setup
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Advanced CPU Control
Thermal Mode
This item enables Intel’s thermal throttling 1 technology in the CPU; it functions as a temperature trip that will
throttle the CPU (and thereby decrease performance) when a certain temperature is reached. Enabling this
function allows you to configure the thermal control circuit in the operating system userspace.
Options: TM1 (default), Disabled
HT Support
This item enables Hyper-Threading (HT) technology, so that the CPU may utilize simultaneous multithreading.
This improves performance for multi-threaded code and gives improved reaction and response time. However,
in some instances users may want to disable it to conserve power or reduce CPU cache paging.
Options: Enable (default), Disabled
Use XD Capability
This item allows you to enable/disable the Intel XD function, which provides executable space protection by
toggling the NX bit in memory spaces designated as data. This gives a strong protection against buffer
overflows by preventing the execution of malicious code that has been delivered into memory space in a hidden
data packet. It is strongly advised to enable XD technology.
Options: Disabled (default), Enable
ACPI S3
This item allows you to enable/disable Processor Performance States (P-States) function; this technology is
primarily intended for power conservation on laptops. By default, it is enabled.
Options: Enabled (default), Disabled
