Asrock P4I48 User Manual

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Ratio Status

This is a read-only item, which displays whether the ratio status of this

motherboard is “Locked” or “Unlocked”. If it shows “Unlocked”, you will find

an item Ratio CMOS Setting appears to allow you changing the ratio value

of this motherboard. If it shows “Locked”, then the item Ratio CMOS Set-

ting will be hidden. If you use the ratio value to time the CPU frequency, it will

be equal to the core speed of the installed processor.

Ratio Actual Value

This is a read-only item, which displays the ratio actual value of this

motherboard.

CPU Thermal Throttling

You may select [Enabled] to enable P4 CPU internal thermal control mecha-

nism to keep the CPU from overheated.

Hyper Threading Technology

To enable this feature, it requires a computer system with an Intel Pentium

processor that supports Hyper-Threading technology and an operating sys-

tem that includes optimization for this technology, such as Microsoft

Win-

dows

XP. Set to [Auto] if using Microsoft

Windows

XP, or Linux kernel

version 2.4.18 or higher. This option will be hidden if the installed CPU does

not support Hyper-Threading technology.