Upgrading cpu/gpu

[BASgamer]

Looking to help a friend upgrade his computer, has a power supply,8g ddr3 ram, hd, and a windows license already. Looking to spend about 200 for 1 purchase adn 130 the other for the cpu, motherboard, and gpu. Plays league of legends and dungeon defenders 2 atm but not many graphically intensive games. So was wondering if anyone had any ideas what to spend the money on with this coming black friday/cyber monday sales. Thank you for your time.

Edit: found out 2 diff peopel purchasing the parts one spending 200 the other 130

[Stanislav]

i dont think you will find anything for sale since the price range is low.

just go to a store near you and look up what you can find.

a good gpu these days is a gtx970 and its 350$ (ish)
motherboard is like 80-140$

and a cpu is like 200-500$

you will have to get some of the cheapest stuff they even got.

[BASgamer]

it doesnt have to be any where near top of the line like that. It's just his parts are quite old so looking for ok items. Like the puppy/dolphin pieces you'd normally see in the builds of the month on here

[Deleted]

Don't think you can make it much better than that.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card ($179.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $344.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-22 09:34 EST-0500

Would be good to know the exact model of the power supply tho, you don't want to explode your new parts do you?

[BASgamer]

think the psu is a 650 80+ gold seasonic

[Malevskiy]

get gtx 970 for 300$. I have it and i love it. played witcher 3 and playing wow on maxed with 60 fps

[Deleted]

Check for Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals, but at the moment, Kos' proposal is the best one here.

[BASgamer]

ran into an issue found out it's 2 people buying it for my friend one is spending up to 200 and the other 130. Assuming the 200 is going towards the cpu/motherboard and the 130 is towards the gpu

Also how would these parts compare to the ones in the puppy build on the setup of the month here

[Deleted]

They are better than puppy for gaming, a lot better. Now back to that "issue" well you can't do much with it. You won't fit those as you like so...130 for gpu is going a couple tiers below proposed one. Get the 2 friends together and buy them.

[BASgamer]

i did find out what he currently had if it helps at all to show what an upgrade would be
Cpu: amd phenom II x4 965 3.40ghz
gpu: nvidia geforce gtx 285

But yeah its for christmas. Already tried to get them to go in on it together and i dont know if i can get that to happen, they seem to want to say "hey i got you this" clearly defined, so a backup plan if i cant get them too would be nice.

getting a better cpu and a decent gpu id think might be best since swapping out the gpu later would be much easier, but anything that fits that price issue would be a nice help
also we have a micro center with 6% sales tax near me if there is an option there

[BASgamer]

heres a few options id like to ask peoples opinions on, probably going with the cpu/mobo above

Might just give them $10 bucks to make the gpu $140. Would any be better then these for the same price or lower
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon R9 270X 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 $139.99
MSI Radeon R7 370 4G 256-Bit GDDR5 $139.99
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 760 2G 256-Bit GDDR5 $139.99
GeForce GTX 950 2G 128-Bit GDDR5 a few to select $140 or under

did find a r9 380 dont know how this brand/clock compare to the rest i found
XFX Radeon R9 380 256-Bit GDDR5 Double Dissipation $142