Need advice on a budget system for a friend

[Galion]

He needs a upgrade but his budget is really tight, he plays smite, rocket league, pub g, LOL and overwatch and some mmorpgs. His budget is $400, I was thinking a raven ridge 2400G should do fine but not sure if it'll run at 1080 if I give him a old 950ti from my spares pile

[Lurick]

I would go with the 2200G over the 2400G and just overclock it a bit.

Something like this should work out well:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($98.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ Newegg Business)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($70.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($54.95 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Corsair - SPEC-05 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($21.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $400.28
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-26 07:26 EDT-0400

[Galion]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

I would go with the 2200G over the 2400G and just overclock it a bit.

Something like this should work out well:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($98.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ Newegg Business)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($70.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($54.95 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Corsair - SPEC-05 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($21.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $400.28
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-26 07:26 EDT-0400

No need for the 950ti? I chose the 2400G cos of his school work needs the cores for Adobe edits 

[Lurick]

2 minutes ago, Galion said:

No need for the 950ti? I chose the 2400G cos of his school work needs the cores for Adobe edits 

If adobe can take advantage of hypethreading/SMT then go with that and drop the HDD.

Do you mean 750Ti?

[Galion]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

If adobe can take advantage of hypethreading/SMT then go with that and drop the HDD.

Do you mean 750Ti?

LOL typo yes 750ti

[Jack Rollins]

If you were going to choose a Graphics Card, I would recommend going for a used GTX 970.

You can get them cheap for around $150 on eBay and the price for performance ratio is amazing.

They are very close to GTX 1060's.

However it will add to the overall cost, but it is worth it.

[Lurick]

2 minutes ago, Galion said:

LOL typo yes 750ti

Yah, I would start with the 2400G and see where that puts him and if he need some extra horse power then give him the 750Ti but the 2400G is about 10% behind a 750Ti.