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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

Vendors push Intel's promised performance-boosting firmware for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs — 0x114 beta BIOS updates coupled with the new CSME version 1854v2.2

Intel Corporation Gigabyte ASRock Asus
Arrow Lake motherboards for pre-order.

Intel partners have started to deploy BIOS patches for Z890 motherboards featuring the 0x114 microcode coupled with the updated CSME 1854v2.2 firmware. The patches serve as the last piece to Intel's Core Ultra 200S (Arrow Lake) performance puzzle, with the newer CSME and BIOS combo promising additional single-digit increases in gaming performance. Interestingly, vendors are pushing the update ahead of Intel's projected timeframe in January, at least if we're talking about the beta releases (via Harukaze and HXL).

For the uninitiated, Team Blue's latest Arrow Lake chips were plagued by several underlying issues that Intel promised it'd fix by December. In a report issued a few days back, Intel reportedly addressed four of the five root causes that held back performance.

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