Dell PowerEdge M620 Owners Manual - Page 14

Memory Settings Screen, Spare with Advanced ECC Mode

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Menu Item Description System Manufacturer Displays the contact information of the system manufacturer. Contact Information Memory Settings Screen Menu Item Description System Memory Size Displays the amount of memory installed in the system. System Memory Type Displays the type of memory installed in the system. System Memory Speed Displays the system memory speed. System Memory Voltage Displays the system memory voltage. Video Memory Displays the amount of video memory. System Memory Testing Specifies whether system memory tests are run during system boot. Options are Enabled and Disabled. By default, the System Memory Testing option is set to Disabled. Memory Operating Mode Specifies the memory operating mode. The options available depending on the memory configuration of your system are Optimizer Mode, Advanced ECC Mode, Mirror Mode, Spare Mode, and Spare with Advanced ECC Mode. By default, the Memory Operating Mode option is set to Optimizer Mode. Node Interleaving If this field is Enabled, memory interleaving is supported if a symmetric memory configuration is installed. If Disabled, the system supports Non-Uniform Memory architecture (NUMA) (asymmetric) memory configurations. By default, Node Interleaving option is set to Disabled. Processor Settings Screen Menu Item Logical Processor QPI Speed Description 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. Allows you to set the QuickPath Interconnect data rate settings. By default, the QPI Speed option is set to Maximum data rate. NOTE: The QPI Speed option is displayed only when both the processors are installed. Alternate RTID (Requestor Transaction ID) Setting Virtualization Technology 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. Allows you enable or disable the additional hardware capabilities provided for virtualization. By default, the Virtualization Technology option is set to Enabled. 14

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Menu Item
Description
System Manufacturer
Contact Information
Displays the contact information of the system manufacturer.
Memory Settings Screen
Menu Item
Description
System Memory Size
Displays the amount of memory installed in the system.
System Memory Type
Displays the type of memory installed in the system.
System Memory
Speed
Displays the system memory speed.
System Memory
Voltage
Displays the system memory voltage.
Video Memory
Displays the amount of video memory.
System Memory
Testing
Specifies whether system memory tests are run during system boot. Options are
Enabled
and
Disabled
. By default, the
System Memory Testing
option is set to
Disabled
.
Memory Operating
Mode
Specifies the memory operating mode. The options available depending on the memory
configuration of your system are
Optimizer Mode
,
Advanced ECC Mode
,
Mirror Mode
,
Spare
Mode
, and
Spare with Advanced ECC Mode
. By default, the
Memory Operating Mode
option is
set to
Optimizer Mode
.
Node Interleaving
If this field is
Enabled
, memory interleaving is supported if a symmetric memory configuration is
installed. If
Disabled
, the system supports Non-Uniform Memory architecture (NUMA)
(asymmetric) memory configurations. By default,
Node Interleaving
option is set to
Disabled
.
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
.
NOTE:
The QPI Speed option is displayed only when both the processors are installed.
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 enable or disable the additional hardware capabilities provided for virtualization. By
default, the
Virtualization Technology
option is set to
Enabled
.
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