I bought a new 35' Ultra Wide QHD screen mainly for work / school to hook up onto my laptop: BenQ EX3501R

But I also have an old PC that I could upgrade to play some games on (Mainly Fortnite lol)

Currently it has:

Asus P6T SE Motherboard
I7 920 CPU
12gb of ddr3 ram
samsung SSD
gtx 1050 ti

Stuff is pretty old but still works well

Guess I cant just drop a 1080 ti in here and expect it to work great right?
What else should I upgrade to be able to play on 3440x1440 with decent settings

Another option would be to get a 1060 and scale the screen down to 2560x1080 when playing games?
Would that require any other upgrades besides the gfx card?

This post was edited by Jynthe on Mar 9 2018 07:10am

i think it just depends on ur psu but give me ur 1050 ti if u dont want it?

What power supply do you have in that desktop computer?

As for the vid card needed to drive that monitor, a GTX 1080 at minimum. And yes you can run the monitor at lower resolution and use a less power full card, like a GTX 1070.