BIOS settings (pictures)

Does anything in these BIOS setting jump out to anyone? The first two are probably the most critical. I am using an M.2 drive also, should I leave the default settings for that alone? thx

PXE is enabled when you want to allow network boot. Disable them.
I think the C states should be disabled as you do not want sleep modi.
VT-d is a virtualisation thing, believe its better disabled
RC6 is related to sleep modi, I gues better disable
m5c
MIKE

Thanks! Made the changes and running a short 'stress test' at the moment.

hardware prefetcher = enabled
adjacent cache line prefetch = enabled
AES = disabled
boot performance mode = normal
power limit 2 override = disabled
everything C state = disabled or normal ???
monitor mwait = disabled
VT-d = disabled
RC6 render standby = disabled
DVMT pre allocated = 256MB
Max TOLUD = static or normal ???
Memory scrambler = disabled

tommylight wrote: boot performance mode = normal

Options are:
Power saving
Max Non-Turbo Performance
Turbo Performance

tommylight wrote: DVMT pre allocated = 256MB

DVMT Pre-Allocated only goes up to 64M
Option are:
OM
32M
64M
4M
then adds 4M through to 60M

tommylight wrote: Max TOLUD = static or normal ???

Max TOLUD options are:
Dynamic
1GB
1.25GB
1.5GB
1.75GB
2GB
2.25GB
2.5GB
2.75GB
3GB
3.25GB
3.5GB

Was not sure about those as noted by to many ??? so id id some digging
1 max non turbo
2 i would set that and the one bellow it to the same value to avoid resizing memory during work, so both at 64
3 does not matter, leave it at dynamic, or set it at 1 and see if it does anything for latency.

Will do and report back. This is the machine I plan to use for running a plasma table. Does it look good to go, as far as you can tell from these latency reports? Should I try running the stress test script with modified settings? Thanks again sir.

All of the results you posted have good latency for Mesa boards, be it ethernet or PCI /PCI-E, but that can only be confirmed when using the actual boards as the PC might still have excursions in latency.
Parallel port can be used with those results but at a limited step rate.

In general, what has the best results, PCI/PCI-E boards or ethernet?

For plasma i use ethernet, saves a lot of trouble with cabling and shielding.
For retrofits i use them based on how far is the PC from the electronics, if they are in the same enclosure i use PCI/PCI-E, if on separate enclosures i use ethernet.