The Day Has FINALLY Come!

Okay, so everything's terrible. Nothing's good. [music] What? Wait, this says I actually have good news. Starting with Intel planning their comeback. The AI bubble is real. [music] Memory prices are finally dropping and AMD's forcing Nvidia's hand. Welcome everyone to Gamer Mau. Intel's nextG CPUs look to be the comeback they need. I've been over the specs a couple times now at this point, but as a quick recap, we're looking at an unreal 52 core CPU with up to 288 MGB of L3 cache. So, yeah, Intel's flat going all out when it comes to their Nova Lake CPUs. In fact, according to video cards, the company is looking at calling their higherend models their Core X series. If you remember, Intel actually launched a Core X series of HDT CPUs years ago. So, this would be sort of like a spiritual successor to that. And it actually looks like Intel is planning to market these more in line with the HDT sector, though with some caveats. For example, this is set to come on the consumer Z990 platform, meaning it wouldn't have a crazy amount of PCI Express lanes, support for quad channel memory, or anything like that. One issue, of course, is the power draw. If you remember not too long ago, we saw a rumor claiming that the highest end SKUs pull a crazy amount of power. And according to a new leak, only some boards will support the full power 52 core platform with other boards limiting the performance and power of the 52 core part. Basically, if you do end up getting Intel's highestend model, you'll likely need a really high-end board. Of course, with this type of power draw, that's not too surprising, but that could be an issue when you start comparing boards with AMD's Thread Ripper lineup, because Thread Ripper obviously comes with those extra platform features. Either way, this still is looking pretty exciting. Though, really, it's likely going to boil down to price. Do you think Intel will hit hard enough to gain the comeback they so desperately need, or will they price them way too high? Let me know down in the comments below. It looks like the AI bubble is real as businesses aren't finding it anywhere near as useful as they thought. This story actually comes from a huge new survey done by the National Bureau of Economic Research and it tells us a ton of stuff about AI. The research paper from it is called Firm Data on AI and it's a survey of nearly 6,000 senior executives across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia. So, starting things off, over the last 3 years, over 80% of firms reported no real impact of AI on productivity or employment levels. Here's the wild part, though. Nearly 70% of firms reported using some form of AI. Meaning, this isn't from a lack of trying, but it's just not working. Not only that, but among the firms that are using AI regularly, the average executive in the firm only uses it for 1 and 1/2 hours per week. Now some people are trying to draw parallels to this and what happened during the 70s and 80s with the solo productivity paradox. Basically it said that the reason productivity went down with the full adoption of computers during that time was because they invested in the computers instead of the actual workflows and systems around them. And that can be at least somewhat true here. But I do see a problem with this comparison. For one, early computers replaced entire manual systems in accounting, inventory, etc. while AI seems to just improve part of a task in some way. Second, we already have the digital infrastructure that just didn't exist then. Companies are used to all of these changes already. Basically, AI may not be as transformative as many people originally thought. Of course, it's still very early to say for sure, but it's definitely not looking great so far, and that's good news for PC gamers. And while on the topic of good news, it's finally happening. Memory prices are starting to come down. First up, we have a very nice memory price chart from the German retailer Computer Base. And as you can see, they list pricing on specific models that go all the way back to September of last year. And when going through it, we can see that prices are absolutely [clears throat] dropping. In fact, some of them have dropped substantially from just a month ago. As you can see down here, last month was a whopping 344% higher than back in September, while this month drops that down to 313.73%. Now, obviously, 300 anything% is still wildly high, but to see any kind of drop off is nice. Still, this is in Germany, so it could just be regional. Fortunately, when we look at DDR5 memory prices in the US, we can see something similar with drop offs beginning to happen across multiple configurations and memory speeds. With that said, DDR4 prices do look to be trending up, but that could easily be the delayed response from consumers buying more DDR4 instead of upgrading to DDR5 because of those price increases. Still, this is great news. Unfortunately, when it comes to storage, prices are still moving up. You can see here that ComputerBase also has storage prices going back to September. And while some models went down slightly, overall they went from a price increase of 74.12% to 86.59%. So that's of course bad news, but it's more or less to be expected. Storage prices have only recently been going up and haven't seen the same huge jump that memory has. The question is whether memory prices will continue to drop or if this is just a small plateau before moving even higher. Fingers crossed for the first one. AMD is forcing Nvidia's hand when it comes to nextG GPUs. So, there's been a bit of a back and forth as to when nextG GPUs will actually release. Some have said 2028, others are hoping for 2027. But in a recent video from Warsaw is Dead, he goes over a very important truth. For one, he reiterates that if AMD is ready with their APUs for the nextG Xbox in 2027, then they're ready for nextG GPUs. And remember that AMD's own CEO, Lisa Sue, definitely told us that quote, "Development of Microsoft's nextG Xbox featuring an AMD semi-custom SOC is progressing well to support a launch in 2027." Basically, he's reiterating that AMD will in fact launch nextG GPUs next year. And because of that, there's simply no way that Nvidia wouldn't also launch their nextG cards as well. No matter what they'd like to do, no matter when they'd like to release it, they simply can't. And this once again is the importance of competition. Nvidia will be forced to release at least something to compete with AMD because they can't let them go unchallenged for months at a time.

Memory prices are finally dropping, AMD's forcing Nvidia to launch their RTX 6000 GPUs, the AI bubble is real and Intel's planning their comeback! Stay tuned... ****Items featured in this video available here**** Newegg (Affiliate): https://geni.us/newegg1 Amazon US (Affiliate): https://amzn.to/3b9UjKB ►GET THE MERCH: https://meldstore.com/ ►CHAT ON DISCORD: https://discord.gg/gamermeld ►SUPPORT ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/gamermeld ►GAMER MELD SPONSORS: https://www.gamermeld.com/sponsors X: https://x.com/GamerMeld Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gamermeld SOURCES: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-x-hedt-nova-lake-s-rumor-52-core-full-power-mode-could-push-motherboard-requirements-higher https://www.nber.org/papers/w34836 https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/ai-productivity-paradox-ceo-study-robert-solow-information-technology-age/ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/new-report-shows-ram-prices-are-continuing-to-fall-in-germany-u-s-trends-less-certain-ssds-and-hdds-are-more-expensive-than-ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM9UMWRO3yg TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intel's Comeback 2:11 - AI Is A Bubble 4:02 - Memory Prices Are Finally Dropping 5:54 - AMD's Forcing Nvidia's Hand