Could I use a 1060?

[JCooper]

My friend has a old computer system and he does a lot of gaming and he wanted to upgrade his GPU, 

His specs now: 

 AMD RICHLAND A10-6800K 4.1 GHZ
ASROCK FM2 MAINBOARD
16 GIG DDR III GAMIING MEMORY
2 GIG RADEON R9 270X PCI EXPRESS 
2 TERRABYTE 64 MEG CACHE HDD
COOLERMASTER G SERIES 600W PSU
SAMSUNG 24X DVDRW
FRACTAL DESIGNS R4 PC CASE
WIN 7 HOME PREMIUM 64 BIT OR WINDOWS 8.1 64 BIT

 

Would he be able to upgrade to a GTX 1060 and run fine? He will upgrade all but he won't be able to get money for ages and his computer is really slow for what he does. 

Please help 

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, JCooper said:

My friend has a old computer system and he does a lot of gaming and he wanted to upgrade his GPU, 

His specs now: 

 AMD RICHLAND A10-6800K 4.1 GHZ
ASROCK FM2 MAINBOARD
16 GIG DDR III GAMIING MEMORY
2 GIG RADEON R9 270X PCI EXPRESS 
2 TERRABYTE 64 MEG CACHE HDD
COOLERMASTER G SERIES 600W PSU
SAMSUNG 24X DVDRW
FRACTAL DESIGNS R4 PC CASE
WIN 7 HOME PREMIUM 64 BIT OR WINDOWS 8.1 64 BIT

 

Would he be able to upgrade to a GTX 1060 and run fine? He will upgrade all but he won't be able to get money for ages and his computer is really slow for what he does. 

Please help 

It'll bottleneck. Wouldn't.

[JCooper]

Just now, Starelementpoke said:

It'll bottleneck. Wouldn't.

So would you upgrade the motherboard,cpu and ram first?

 

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, JCooper said:

So would you upgrade the motherboard,cpu and ram first?

 

Yup.

[JCooper]

Just now, Starelementpoke said:

Yup.

would it work fine with the gpu he has now?

 

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, JCooper said:

would it work fine with the gpu he has now?

 

Yes.

[EPPHO]

Bottleneck and a half

[Shiv78]

I would go i5, h110/b150 mobo and 8GB DDR4 for now, get an 1160 or something next year

[JCooper]

1 minute ago, Shiv78 said:

I would go i5, h110/b150 mobo and 8GB DDR4 for now, get an 1160 or something next year

and all that would be fine on the gpu he has now?

[Shiv78]

Just now, JCooper said:

and all that would be fine on the gpu he has now?

yup

 

270X is still OK at 1080p

[JCooper]

7 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Yes.

Would it bottle neck with a 970 instead?

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, JCooper said:

Would it bottle neck with a 970 instead?

yes.

[JCooper]

3 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

yup

 

270X is still OK at 1080p

would it help with his fps?

[Hamil_P1]

1060 would be bottlenecked by cpu, but if planning on upgrading later I'd say get it. 1060 would be a huge improvement, and when cpu/mobo gets upgraded there will be another improvement. 

psu is fine. especially if you get 1060 over the 970.

 

[Shogai]

As someone with a 970 I'll say the same thing. Definitely 1060 over 970 later, although I love my card as is, but the real issue is the processor. If budget is a huge problem, I'd suggest looking at a couple strong 4th gen i5 or i7s, which would preserve the RAM should it be acceptable as is. My personal biggest upgrades were hopping from an AMD 8150FX to a 4790k and investing in SSDs for glorious load times.