Intel is boosting the performance of its Arrow Lake CPUs for free

is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Intel continues to work on getting better results from its Arrow Lake CPUs, now with a free update that it says will boost gaming performance. The company announced that the update, an overclocking profile called “Intel 200S Boost,” is available for unlocked Intel Core Ultra 200S-series processors “paired with compatible Intel Z890 motherboards and appropriate Intel XMP” RAM modules. The new profile follows previous tweaks, such as a BIOS update from March that The Verge’s Tom Warren found gave the Core Ultra 9 285K CPU inconsistently improved gaming performance. After testing the new update this week in multiple games and configurations, Tom’s Hardware reports “an average improvement of 7.5% over the officially supported memory speeds.” Intel says that the 200S Boost profile “allows users to achieve higher fabric, die-to-die, and memory freque ... Read full article.