• Balanced Power—Provides optimum power efficiency based on server utilization.
• Power Savings Mode—Provides power savings for environments that are power sensitive and can
accept reduced performance.
3. Save your setting.
Enabling or disabling collaborative power control
For operating systems that support the Processor Clocking Control (PCC) interface, enabling
Collaborative Power Control configures the operating system to request processor frequency changes,
even when the Power Regulator option is set to Dynamic Power Savings Mode on the server. For
operating systems that do not support the PCC Interface, or when the Power Regulator mode is not
configured for Dynamic Power Savings Mode, this option has no impact on system operation.
Prerequisite
Workload Profile is set to Custom.
Procedure
1. From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > BIOS/Platform Configuration
(RBSU) > Power and Performance Options > Collaborative Power Control.
2. Select a setting.
• Enabled—The operating system requests processor frequency changes.
• Disabled—The operating system does not request processor frequency changes.
3. Save your setting.
Setting Intel DMI Link Frequency
Use the Intel DMI Link Frequency option to force the link speed between the processor and south bridge
to run at slower speeds. Doing so can reduce power consumption, but can also impact system
performance.
NOTE: You can configure this option on systems with two or more CPUs.
Procedure
1. From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > BIOS/Platform Configuration
(RBSU) > Power and Performance Options > Intel DMI Link Frequency.
2. Select a setting.
• Gen 1 Speed
• Gen 2 Speed
3. Save your setting.
Enabling or disabling collaborative power control 93