Need help to upgrade my friend's rig

[Leychee]

He's on a tight budget (around 300€), and living in France. He doesn't mind if his new components are second hand.

 

His current build is 

• i5 3570 (dead, stock cooler's dead too)
• GTX 970 (he'd like to keep it)
• 8GB RAM DDR3
• ASRock H77 Pro4/MVP mobo

and a new PSU and case he bought very recently. 

What could be improved under 300€, while keeping the GPU? Is it possible to get a new mobo, CPU and RAM for that budget?

 

Edit: he will be playing Minecraft, GTA V maybe, Fortnite, and some other games that worked fine with a 970.

 

Thank you!

 

[Slottr]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	€130.41 @ Amazon France
Motherboard	ASRock Fatal1ty B450 GAMING K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard	€98.95 @ Amazon France
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	€74.56 @ Amazon France
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€303.92
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-14 17:18 CET+0100

 

[Juular]

17 minutes ago, Leley said:

new PSU he bought very recently.

Which one ?

For 300 EUR obvious choice would be AMD R5 3600 with MSI B450 A-Pro\Gaming Plus and 16GB 3200\3600MHz kit, might be just a bit over budget tho. Or R5 2600 for a bit cheaper.

[Leychee]

6 minutes ago, Slottr said:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	€130.41 @ Amazon France
Motherboard	ASRock Fatal1ty B450 GAMING K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard	€98.95 @ Amazon France
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	€74.56 @ Amazon France
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€303.92
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-14 17:18 CET+0100

 

Looking great! Thank you.

5 minutes ago, Juular said:

Which one ?

For 300 EUR obvious choice would be AMD R5 3600 with MSI B450 A-Pro\Gaming Plus and 16GB 3200\3600MHz kit, might be just a bit over budget tho. Or R5 2600 for a bit cheaper.

Cooler Master - MWE 650 BRONZE.

Thank you for your suggestion!

[Leychee]

14 minutes ago, Slottr said:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	€130.41 @ Amazon France
Motherboard	ASRock Fatal1ty B450 GAMING K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard	€98.95 @ Amazon France
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	€74.56 @ Amazon France
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€303.92
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-14 17:18 CET+0100

 

Could we maybe get a R3 3200G instead? Delivery's faster and it's a bit cheaper.

[Juular]

14 minutes ago, Leley said:

Could we maybe get a R3 3200G instead? Delivery's faster and it's a bit cheaper.

It's 4-core tho and you'll need more expensive motherboard for it.

[Slottr]

21 minutes ago, Leley said:

Could we maybe get a R3 3200G instead? Delivery's faster and it's a bit cheaper.

No point. You have a graphics card and you’d be losing cores 

[boggy77]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	€130.41 @ Amazon France
Motherboard	ASRock B450M Pro4-F Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	€86.89 @ LDLC
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	€69.95 @ Amazon France
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€287.25
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-14 18:29 CET+0100

 

[Leychee]

Thanks everyone for your help! Went for an R5 2600, Gigabyte Aorus and 16GB of RAM.