A Reddit user known as Motor_Attention1865 built a PC water cooling system that routes coolant to an external 240mm radiator outside in winter, keeping excess heat from warming their heated-floor room. An Arduino Mega with temperature probes and a Python script controls a three-way valve, opening it to send coolant outdoors only when needed and keeping the coolant above the dew point to avoid condensation. The heavily watercooled PC itself includes a delidded Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, an RTX 4070 Ti Super, and watercooled RAM, alongside internal 120mm and 360mm radiators fed by an EK Kinetic D5 pump.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-11
Amazon has cut the price of Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus by 34%, bringing it to $145, its lowest price yet. The 18-core, 18-thread chip originally launched at $200 before its MSRP rose to $220, and it was part of Intel's revamped Arrow Lake lineup alongside the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-06
Tom's Hardware ran Capcom's new RE Engine title Onimusha: Way of the Sword through its built-in benchmark across 31 CPUs, from Intel's newly released Core Ultra 7 270K Plus down to AMD's decade-old Ryzen 7 2700X. AMD's X3D chips outperformed flagship processors by roughly 10%, while the 270K Plus underperformed compared to Intel's older Raptor Lake Refresh parts, and AMD's newer 12-core Ryzen 9 chips also lagged unexpectedly.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-03
Walmart has discounted the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme prebuilt desktop by 21%, dropping it from $1,769.99 to $1,399. The system pairs Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB VRAM), 16GB of DDR5 memory, and a 1TB SSD.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-03
After AMD held all ten spots on Amazon's best-selling CPU list, two Intel chips have broken through: the newly released Core Ultra 7 270K Plus at #6 ($290) and the older Core i7-14700K at #9 ($312). The 270K Plus offers strong multi-core and single-core performance, trailing only AMD's $569 Ryzen 9 9950X3D among the top 10, while the 14700K remains popular for its compatibility with both older LGA 1700 boards and DDR4 memory.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-24
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