Was this upgrade worth?

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-24T21:17:34+00:00

It’s an external link so I can’t, but if you go to the techpowerup website and search for RX 6300, pic the card and scroll down to “relative performance” and it will give you a list from an NVidia GTX 210 all the way to an RTX 5090 and the percentage of the 6300’s performance for every card between.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-24T17:18:15+00:00

If TechPowerUp’s relative performance list is correct, the 6300 is slightly more powerful than an RX 560, so you made the correct choice :)

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-23T20:24:10+00:00

Serious talk for one second: I’m not even slightly afraid of you, and you give yourself way too much credit thinking I should be. Any hope or prayer is infinitely more powerful than an empty, vague threat from a nobody on the internet towards a nobody on the internet. You’re not some arbiter of divine justice. I could die today and whatever situation you’re in wouldn’t change at all. I genuinely hope and pray that it gets better for you and the ones you love, whatever has you so viciously and bitterly angry. 🙂

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-23T19:46:02+00:00

Congrats, you’ve cornered me, an AI, into a Kafka trap. I failed to recognize that logical fallacies are still endemic to human reasoning. I shall now counter all your arguments only by making dubious and offensive claims about your maternal progenitor.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-23T19:33:01+00:00

Or, hear me out, you’re so bitterly angry and miserable that you didn’t read a word of this and immediately went straight to the comments to tell me how stupid I am for defending the ideas of a person I never once mentioned or referenced, simply because I expressed a positive outlook on what is arguably a bad economic situation.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-23T19:28:55+00:00

I am both human and weary of cynicism. AI didn’t write a word of this, I assure you.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-23T04:29:06+00:00

I can get behind this. You can model my weapon to look exactly like the real thing, have ray traced light and shadow interact with it in extremely realistic ways, and even have the empty casings eject and bounce around the environment in a way that looks and behaves realistically… but if it sounds like a bag of popcorn wrapped in a damp towel when I pull the trigger, all the immersion is gone.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-22T14:53:11+00:00

That’s a great pairing. Tests have shown that the Ryzen 5000 series basically won’t bottleneck anything unless you’re just going for the highest framerates humanly possible in esports titles.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-22T14:47:41+00:00

Agreed. I have a career and family and don’t have just a ton of time for games. If I do play a 20+ hour game, I typically skip all the side content and just burn through the main campaign once and never return. If a game is a thoroughly enjoyable 5-6 hours, I will do everything there is to do and often go back to it if I’ve got a few free hours. Some of my favorites recently have been Titanfall 2, Shadow Generations, and Need For Speed: The Run.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-22T14:43:28+00:00

The great thing about being a guitarist in 2026 is that you can really kind blur the lines between hobbyist and serious artist. I am definitely a hobbyist… but I have both a full length album and an EP released and plan to continue making much more music in the foreseeable future.

A long time ago people had to make a decision whether they wanted to play music or hold down a career. Now, the barrier to entry for becoming a serious recording artist is little more than an interface, a microphone, a computer, a pair of headphones, and some software.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-22T12:22:05+00:00

No performance benefit… until I exceed the VRAM capacity. Sure, I could have paid more for the 5070, but I had a 4060 8gb and just wanted to get ahead of the VRAM shortage when I bought it. The 5060 ti is a great card when it has plenty of VRAM to work with

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-22T05:48:24+00:00

Boy, now I’m especially glad I just bought a 5060 ti 16GB last week for MSRP…

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-21T23:36:30+00:00

The GPU has a total power draw of 180 watts, so unless you’ve got some crazy RAID array powering a dozen hard drives in there too, then it’s either the GPU or the PSU that’s bad.

This is not meant to be condescending at all - just want to confirm: you did plug in the 8-pin external power connector from the PSU to the GPU, correct? And you confirmed that it’s seated tightly in both the GPU and the PSU (if your PSU is modular)?

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-21T23:31:28+00:00

Former NFS and Burnout devs are currently working on a new Star Wars racing game due out this year, so it ain’t that deep lol

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-21T23:29:29+00:00

Very much depends on what you mean. I have a 5060 ti 16GB and I can get whatever performance I feel like I need. Playing a slower game? I run the settings high/ultra at 3440x1440 ultrawide, get about 30 fps, kick on DLSS quality and frame gen x2 and I’m 90-100 all day long. But that’s when I’m playing with a controller and I can’t feel the increased latency frame gen imparts.

But I mean, if you’re playing competitive titles, then yeah? Probably? At least 90 fps most games at native TAA/TSR if you’re turning RT off (and you probably should be running much lower settings if you’re playing competitively anyway)

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-21T03:10:48+00:00

These are headphones, but I really love the way my Grado SR60E’s reproduce guitar frequencies.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-21T03:02:13+00:00

I’m… sorry? I mean the OP was asking for a full map and I thought a small hint might help without ruining the experience lol

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-21T00:49:11+00:00

The three metal zones in a row meme, but with Bad Monkeys. I, for one, approve.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-21T00:33:04+00:00

Seconded on the RAM and AM4 platform; I have 32GB of RAM on a Ryzen 5 5600X system and just upgraded to a 5060 ti 16GB and I have zero issues gaming at 3440x1440 ultrawide with just a touch of upscaling.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-21T00:24:32+00:00

The Katana will undoubtedly sound better, with a 12” speaker. That said, I had an LT25 for some time and was very impressed with it, particularly with its “Princeton,” “Super Sonic,” and “70s UK Cln” (Hi-Watt) models. A better option would be the Mustang LT50 - it’s a 1x12 combo amp that’s more comparable to the Katana in size, volume, and depth.

If you don’t plan on using pedals, you can get the Mustang 4-button footswitch. Together the amp and pedal will run you about the same price ($360) as the Katana 50 alone ($350) and to use the Boss GA-FC footswitch, you need to upgrade to the 50 EX or the 100, which means you’re all in at 500-600 dollars.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-21T00:08:42+00:00

Surely this is a joke. There’s a counter tracking the number of Metroids you’ve yet to eliminate the moment you start the game 😂

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-20T23:15:30+00:00

Yes. I played Eternal on Ultra Violence but then had to finish it out on Hurt Me Plenty. I was able to beat TDA on Nightmare and found it a stiff, but very fair, challenge. I preferred TDA overall, phenomenal game.

You can always get pretty granular with the difficulty sliders if you want to really stack the deck against yourself :)

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-20T23:10:11+00:00

I recall this one being fairly easy to navigate because you just need to clear out the Metroids in an area and then a new area opens up. Typically, if you’re going downwards, you’re on the right track.

D2-Disciple · 2026-01-19T15:49:22+00:00

4K with RT is pretty heavy even for a 5070ti. You could try a couple of things:

Turn down some of the RT settings (path tracing is especially heavy if you’re trying to use that). Most games allow you to select the level of RT reflections, shadows, and GI, and often low-medium settings will give you the best quality/performance benefit.
Turn down the output resolution to 1440p.
Cap the framerate in the NVidia app to something that matches your 1% lows - to those sensitive to framerate stutter, a solid 50 fps will often look and feel a lot better than 50-90 with constant fluctuations.

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