Need a bit of help speccing up a budget build for nephew

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I'm a bit out of touch with the 2nd hand market, and my brother has scraped together about £300 to stick together something for his young lad to play fortnite and that kind of rubbish on. We've got a 1080p monitor plus my old gtx970, but the rest is all gotta fit into that budget. So new is out of the equation.

In an ideal world, we'd get him something cheap and low spec, but on a socket that has some decent upgrade options. Like an old AM4 mobo and cpu that he could eventually drop in some more RAM and an old 2700 as he saves up pocket money etc. I don't know if that's feasible in the current market.

So if anyone has an idea of what is best bang for buck, given that it is accepted it isn't going to be amazing, I'd be super grateful. Otherwise we're off to Facebook marketplace to scrounge some old rubbish prebuilt and then have to face all the proprietary Dell PSU stuff if he ever wants to upgrade.
 
I found an old 6700 with 16gb of 3200mhz ram and an ssd (plus a corsair hydro for bling points). Comes with a 970 and all in is 300 quid. Seems decent, although z170 board so dead socket.

If I went new with a 10th gen i3 he gets an upgrade path, but I'd still need to source PSU, HDD, RAM etc.
 
Right, Am4 is looking like the best route in terms of longesvity. Our £300 6700 guy added £100 overnight after getting loads of interest (unsurprising!). Thanks!
 
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