{"id":20688,"date":"2026-10-07T12:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20688"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:12:58","slug":"intels-core-ultra-5-250k-plus-is-down-to-its-lowest-price-ever-at-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20688","title":{"rendered":"Intel’s Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever at $145"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI-rewritten:<\/strong> This is a summary of an article from Tom’s Hardware, rewritten by AI (Qwen, running locally) to make it easier to read. The facts come from the original article – read it for the full story.<\/p>\n

Tom’s Hardware • Mark Tyson • October 6, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n\n

Amazon has slashed the price of the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus by 34% off its list price, bringing it down to $145. This is the lowest price ever recorded for this processor, which originally launched at $200 before climbing to a recommended price of $220. The deal has already sold out, though Newegg currently lists the chip at $210.<\/p>\n

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The 250K Plus belongs to Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh family and features 18 cores with six Lion Cove performance cores and twelve Skymont efficiency cores. It operates without Hyper-Threading but offers a maximum boost clock of 5.3 GHz and power limits of 125W\/250W. As an unlocked K-series processor, it allows for overclocking when paired with a Z-series chipset, which includes baked-in frequency improvements.<\/p>\n

In productivity workloads, the chip is 33% faster than AMD’s Ryzen 7 9700X despite costing roughly half as much, and 80% faster than the similarly priced Ryzen 5 9600X. In single-threaded performance, it outperforms every AMD offering tested, including the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X. While gaming performance is slightly lower than expected, averaging about as fast as the Core i5-14600K, the $145 price point makes it a strong value compared to competitors like the Ryzen 7 9700X.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong> Tom’s Hardware • Mark Tyson • October 6, 2026<\/p>\n

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AI-rewritten: This is a summary of an article from Tom’s Hardware, rewritten by AI (Qwen, running locally) to make it easier to read. The facts come from the original article – read it for the full story. Tom’s Hardware • Mark Tyson • October 6, 2026 Amazon has slashed the price of the Intel Core<\/p>\n

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