In my experience, you get what you pay for. I've been burned too often by AMD and ATI to really give them much consideration, now that they've teamed up I hear its gotten a little better but you should stay in "their family" and not mix and match Nvidia with AMD. I hear ATI driver support hasn't gotten much better since…
I would rather recommend the Core i5 2500 not sure what the dollar prices are, but in euro it´s about 180 . Oh and one thing to note, the motherboard and cpu you stated mark don´t fit together. The CPU is socket 1156 and the motherboard is 1155.
I am not in a situation of giving advice on computers :) , but this is what I got just a month ago and it is amazing :) - just in case you were wondering what MB and CPU to get and if they would work together : core i5 2500 GA-P67-DS3-B3 2x4 GB Kingston DDR3 1600 And yes from my little research looks like Intel is the way…