Support:Systems/BIOS/Dell

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Dell BIOS

The Dell BIOS Key is : F2

Dell organise their BIOS settings in a tree menu and the mouse is enabled.

Dell T7610
BIOS Section Setting
Performance Intel Speed Step Enabled
C States Disabled
Intel TurboBoost Enabled
Hyper-Thread Control Disabled
NUMA Disabled
Dell T7910
BIOS Section Setting
Performance Intel Speed Step Enabled
C States Disabled
Intel TurboBoost Enabled
Hyper-Thread Control Disabled
NUMA Disabled
Engineering Configurations Pcie LinkSpeed Gen3 (see below)

Pcie LinkSpeed
It is important that certain slots and card combinations are configured for maximum performance.
Set to Gen3 for graphics cards, RAID cards and (potentially) other high performance cards.
You will need to know what cards are in what slot