====== Tune BIOS Settings ======
In order to achieve the best possible real-time performance, some options can be set in the BIOS menu.
The options below are taken from a BIOS on a Dell machine.
Computers from other manufacturers may contain similar options.

Which options are ideal depends on the system.
It is normally [[https://elinux.org/images/8/86/CPU_idle.pdf | recommended]] to disable 'C-State Control'. 
However, a test system (Dell Tower OPTIPLEX 9010; 2 x i7-3770 @3.4Gz) showed better performance with this option enabled.

  * Performance
    * Multi Core Support
      * **All**
        * Allowing only one core can increase the real-time performance a little bit. However, the performance would be greatly reduced. -> Use all cores
    * Intel SpeedStep
      * **Disable**
        * The processor stays at highest performance state
    * C-State Control
      * **Disable**
    * Intel TurboBoost
      * **Disable**
    * HyperThread control
      * **Disable **