BIOS terms - please define what they are, what they do, and settings

[leepark]

I was wondering if someone could define BIOS these terms for me. Also, what they do and what they should be set at.

1. Full Screen LOGO Show
2. CPU Thermal-Throttling
3. **PCI Express relative items** Maximum Payload Size

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: leepark
I was wondering if someone could define BIOS these terms for me. Also, what they do and what they should be set at.

1. Full Screen LOGO Show
2. CPU Thermal-Throttling
3. **PCI Express relative items** Maximum Payload Size

1) Whether or not to show the motherboard manufacturers logo on the screen when the computer starts up. Personal preference. No positive / negative effect if you enable or disable it.

2) The CPU will automatically slow itself down to reduce its temperature if it starts to near a certain temperature threshold. The temperature threshold at which thermal throttling will occur is often a configurable option as well if thermal throttling is enabled. Personal preference if you never want your cpu temperature to go above a certain point. Most of the time, modern cpus have built in thermal protection which makes them shut down completely if the temperature reaches a point high enough where physical damage to the CPU could occur.

3) Not sure on this one. But probably has to do with the maximum amount of data that can be transferred over the bus per cycle.

 

[o1die]

You can also reference "adrian's rogak pot" to tweak your bios settings.

 

[lenjack]

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