ASUS H97-PRO Manual De Usuario

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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 in this menu may vary based on the CPU installed.

This item allows you to protect the CPU by decreasing its frequency as it reaches the thermal 

throttle point. The thermal monitor includes TM1 (Thermal monitor 1), TM2 (Thermal monitor 

2), and EMTTM (Enhanced Multi-threaded Thermal Monitoring).
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Allows a hyper-threading processor to appear as two logical processors, allowing the 

operating system to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously. Configuration 

options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

This item allows you to select the number of CPU cores to activate in each processor 

package. Configuration options: [All] [1] [2] [3]

When set to [Enabled], this item allows the legacy OS to boot even without support for CPUs 

with extended CPUID functions. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]