The chipmaker’s new overclocking profile, dubbed “Intel 200S Boost,” is only for unlocked Core Ultra 200S-series CPUs when paired with Intel Z890 motherboards and compatible Intel XMP RAM.

According to Intel, this magic tweak allows punters to squeeze out “higher fabric, die-to-die, and memory frequencies” supposedly ideal for “low-latency workloads like gaming.”

The company insists that the update won’t void your CPU’s warranty.

This follows a March BIOS update that Tom Warren at The Verge noted gave the Core Ultra 9 285K only “inconsistently improved” gaming performance. This week, Tom’s Hardware benchmarked the 200S Boost in a handful of games and setups, seeing a modest 7.5 per cent improvement over stock memory speeds.

The supported silicon list reads like a who's who of Arrow Lake's finest: Core Ultra 9 285K, Ultra 7 265K, 265KF, and the budget-friendly 245K/KF chips. As for getting this wonder-profile working, Chipzilla’s recipe is as tedious as ever: update your BIOS, fumble through menus to enable the profile, restart, stress test, nervously monitor thermals like it’s a countdown to a SpaceX launch and pray it that there is no unexpected disassembly (at least that is my experience of overclocking).

Of course, some motherboards and RAM kits will throw a wobbly, so Chipzilla has a page listing what might work.