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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
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Hassam Nasir

MSI releases first final BIOS with Intel's promised performance improvements for Arrow Lake

The MSI MEG Z890 Godlike.

MSI has released a final, stable BIOS for the MSI MEG Z890 Ace, just days after a handful of vendors started to push beta versions of Intel PR5-compliant BIOSes for Intel's Z890 motherboards (Credit: g01d3nm4ng0 at X). While the underlying issues inherent in the platform have already been addressed, Intel promised additional gains through a BIOS update accompanying the 0x114 microcode and updated CSME firmware by January. With verification approaching completion, other partners will likely push their final BIOS updates shortly.

Arrow Lake suffered from poor and inconsistent performance across the board at launch. Shortly after, the firm assured users of a fix by late November or early December. Almost two weeks ago, Intel released a report underlining its progress, stating that four of the five root issues that held back performance have been addressed.

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