What to upgrade?

[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.

[Xaring]

He needs a new CPU. But it wont be a cheap upgrade. I'd recommend getting a r5 3600 on an B450 board and 16GB ram... So at least 400€. The GPU is still plenty powerful. An SSD upgrade wouldnt be a bad idea either.

[DailyProcrastinator]

I'd also recommend a CPU upgrade to the R5 3600, wich means new motherboard and RAM, SSD upgrade is well overdue though. Also, what PSU does he have?

[seagate_surfer]

With the launch of AMD's third generation Ryzen CPUs, remember that there was also a reduction in the market price of first and second generation processors. The recent drop in price (combined with excellent performance), makes the 2200G an option with a good value for money available today. It comes equipped with integrated Vega 8 graphics that show similar performance to that of the GT 1030. This, in turn, means that it has the ability to run AAA games of low intensity at 50 + FPS in low / medium configurations. Perfect for any basic level PC compilation, and play less intensive games like CS: GO, DOTA 2 and LoL: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

 

An economical power supply of course: Corsair CX Series 450 Watt 80 Plus Bronze.

 

And finally, an economical B450 motherboard that supports third-generation Ryzen CPUs would also be good in case they want to upgrade later. A basic and economical motherboard like the MSI B450M PRO-M2 Max.

[boggy77]

If you only have $100, get a used i7-4790

If you have $300, get a ryzen 5.

[seagate_surfer]

  

On 2/26/2020 at 3:43 AM, boggy77 said:

If you only have $100, get a used i7-4790

If you have $300, get a ryzen 5.

Used CPUs, it is still an option if you have no problems with used devices and need to save bucks. I would only not buy used HDDs...