Misteran

My friend has this PC for quite a while and it's not really great on the game he wants to play, Fortnite that is. He doesn't have a job and has a small budget to upgrade this old rig, so any suggestion will help. Thanks in advance. Here's the specs as far as I could extract from what little time I had on it. CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz GPU: Geforce GTX 1060 6GB RAM: Apacer Technology 78.C1GET.9K10C 8GB 1600MHz Storage: Seagate ST500DM002-1BD142 500GB 7200rpm Motherboard: Asus Z87-A (version Rev 1.xx) I would say he has his graphics card on the latest driver update and uses "DriverEasy" every once in a while to see what's poppn' In Fortnite's most optimized release, he could get ~144fps max, 100 average, and often heavy fps drops running on 1600x900 100% resolution, everything minimum. Fortnite would take about 100% CPU, 50% max gpu usage, and 2.5GB of Ram usage. I checked some videos with this graphics card and they could easily get 120fps average without drops below 110. But that was 6 months ago. I can get more info if you need to know more, so just let me know what's missing here.

It's a 720p. He doesn't want to get a 1080p or 1440p monitor for my sister. My bad, I should've mentioned the monitor in the post.

Old monitor. Whole setup is basically old. My parent's friend thought it was a good idea to just bump the graphics.

The issue is my parent wanted to use as little as possible for 'her', so do you think increasing the AA and post processing will help make it more GPU bound or only resolution works?

By how much, a big boost or just a little jump a 4th quad core?

My father gave my sister's old pc to a friend to be upgraded so she can play games on high quality. Well, all he did was upgrade the graphics card from a Geforce 500 series to a GTX 1060 for a low price. The new specs are: GTX 1060 6GB (new), Core i5 4460 (same old), 8GB of 1600MHz if DDR3 Ram (same old), some motherboard that was cool for the old specs. I feel like the GPU is really bound by the older specs. I mainly play Overwatch and Fortnite and I have really high fps drops when capped on 60-120fps (all low, 720p full res, texture from low to epic) on Fortnite but not so much on OW because of how lighter it comparitively is. I mainly check the cpu usage in task manager and when in a match I always have 100% CPU boatload and 30% to 60% on the graphics card part. What do you think about this and please help me with some suggestions. Thanks everyone!