- Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
- About Your System
- Using The System Setup and Boot Manager
- Installing System
Components
- Recommended Tools
- Front Bezel (Optional)
- Opening And Closing The System
- Inside The System
- Cooling Shroud
- System memory
- Hard Drives
- Removing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Removing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank (Back)
- Installing A 2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank (Back)
- Removing A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Installing A 3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Blank
- Removing A Hot-Swap Hard Drive
- Installing A Hot-Swap Hard Drive
- Removing A Hard Drive From A Hard-Drive Carrier
- Installing A Hard Drive Into A Hard-Drive Carrier
- Optical Drive (Optional)
- Cooling Fans
- Internal USB Memory Key (Optional)
- PCIe Card Holder
- Top Cover Lock Latch
- Cable Retention Bracket
- Expansion Cards
And Expansion-Card Risers
- Expansion Card Installation Guidelines
- Removing An Expansion Card From The Expansion-Card Riser 2 Or 3
- Installing An Expansion Card Into The Expansion-Card Riser 2 Or 3
- Removing An Expansion Card From The Expansion-Card Riser 1
- Installing An Expansion Card Into The Expansion-Card Riser 1
- Removing Expansion-Card Risers
- Installing Expansion-Card Risers
- GPU Card Installation Guidelines
- Installing A GPU Card
- Removing A GPU Card
- SD vFlash Card
- Internal Dual SD Module
- Internal SD Card
- Integrated Storage Controller Card
- Network Daughter Card
- Processors
- Power Supplies
- System Battery
- Hard-Drive Backplane
- Control Panel Board
- System Board
- Troubleshooting
Your System
- Troubleshooting System Startup Failure
- Troubleshooting External Connections
- Troubleshooting The Video Subsystem
- Troubleshooting A USB Device
- Troubleshooting A Serial I/O Device
- Troubleshooting A NIC
- Troubleshooting A Wet System
- Troubleshooting A Damaged System
- Troubleshooting The System Battery
- Troubleshooting Power Supplies
- Troubleshooting Cooling Problems
- Troubleshooting Cooling Fans
- Troubleshooting System Memory
- Troubleshooting An Internal USB Key
- Troubleshooting An SD Card
- Troubleshooting An Optical Drive
- Troubleshooting A Tape Backup Unit
- Troubleshooting A Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting A Storage Controller
- Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
- Troubleshooting Processors
- Using System Diagnostics
- Jumpers And Connectors
- Technical Specifications
- System Messages
- Getting Help
Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual
Processor Settings Screen
- Menu Item
- Description
- Logical Processor
- Allows you to enable or disable logical processors and display the number of logical processors. If the Logical Processor option is set to Enabled, the BIOS displays all the logical processors. If this option is set to Disabled, the BIOS only displays one logical processor per core. By default, the Logical Processor option is set to Enabled.
- QPI Speed
- Allows you to set the QuickPath Interconnect data rate settings. By default, the QPI Speed option is set to Maximum data rate.
- Alternate RTID (Requestor Transaction ID) Setting
- Allows you to allocate more RTIDs to the remote socket increasing cache performance between the sockets or work in normal mode for NUMA. By default, the Alternate RTID (Requestor Transaction ID) Setting is set to Disabled.
- Virtualization Technology
- Allows you to enable or disable the additional hardware capabilities provided for virtualization. By default, the Virtualization Technology option is set to Enabled.
- Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch
- Allows you to optimize the system for applications that require high utilization of sequential memory access. By default, the Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch option is set to Enabled. You can disable this option for applications that require high utilization of random memory access.
- Hardware Prefetcher
- Allows you to enable or disable hardware prefetcher. By default, the Hardware Prefetcher option is set to Enabled.
- DCU Streamer Prefetcher
- Allows you to enable or disable Data Cache Unit streamer prefetcher. By default, the DCU Streamer Prefetcher option is set to Enabled.
- DCU IP Prefetcher
- Allows you to enable or disable Data Cache Unit IP prefetcher. By default, the DCU IP Prefetcher option is set to Enabled.
- Execute Disable
- Allows you enable or disable execute disable memory protection technology. By default, the Execute Disable option is set to Enabled.
- Logical Processor Idling
- Allows you to enable or disable the OS capability to put logical processors in the idling state in order to reduce power consumption. By default, the option is set to Disabled.
- Dell Controlled Turbo
- Helps in controlling Turbo engagement. By default, the option
is set to
Disabled. This feature is also referred
to as Dell Processor Acceleration Technology (DPAT).
- NOTE: This option is available only on systems installed with an E5-2690 or E5-2600 V2 Xeon series processor and support Turbo. Enable Turbo Boost under System Profile Settings and set the System Profile to Performance mode when utilizing this feature. Enabling Dell Controlled Turbo will force fans to run at maximum R.P.M.
-
NOTE: DPAT works when DPAT is
enabled in BIOS setup and either one of the following settings is
available:
-
System Profile is set to Maximum Performance. This automatically enables Turbo mode.
-
System Profile is set to Custom and CPU Power Management is set to Maximum Performance and Turbo is enabled.
-
- Number of Cores per Processor
- Allows you to control the number of enabled cores in each processor. By default, the Number of Cores per Processor option is set to All.
- Processor 64-bit Support
- Specifies if the processor(s) support 64-bit extensions.
- Processor Core Speed
- Displays the maximum core frequency of the processor.
- Processor Bus Speed
- Displays the bus speed of the processors.
- Processor 1
- Family-Model-Stepping
- Displays the family, model and stepping of the processor as defined by Intel.
- Brand
- Displays the brand name reported by the processor.
- Level 2 Cache
- Displays the total L2 cache.
- Level 3 Cache
- Displays the total L3 cache.
- Number of Cores
- Displays the number of cores per processor.
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