ASUS P9X79LE User Manual

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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

The items in this menu show the CPU-related information that the BIOS automatically 

detects.

The items shown in this screen may be different due to the CPU you installed.

Scroll down to display the following items:

[Disabled] 

Disables the CPU thermal monitor function.

[Enabled] 

Enables the overheated CPU to throttle its clock speed to cool down.

The Intel Hyper-Threading Technology allows a hyper-threading processor to appear as two 

logical processors to the operating system, allowing the operating system to schedule two 

threads or processes simultaneously.
[Disabled] 

Only one thread per activated core is enabled.

[Enabled] 

Two threads per activated core are enabled.