Mid Level Gaming System Upgrade

Hey guys i just thought to upgrade my system, i am planning to get a good motherboard in price between, Rs 2500 - 3000 (45 $ - 55 $), , so would you guys please help me choosing which is the good one, i would prefer Intel one, because have heard that, AMD one's are not good for games :noway:,purchasing graphics between Asus NVIDIA GeForce EN210 1 GB & Asus AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5450 1 GB ,and dual core processor, , so tell whether these upgrades are good enough to play games like nfs run , hot pursuit, mw1,2,3, battlefield 2,3, gta 4, mafia 2 these are all games i wish to play, although i am a mid-level gamer, not a hard one.

Thanks in advance for your replies..

 

Whats your overall budget and are we talking US dollars?

 

You are wrong on something; AMD CPU's are better on price/performance for gaming. The flawless point on AMD is the ATI video cards because Catalyst drivers doesn't have a good support for OpenGL games; on DirectX games the support is nice but Nvidia is better.

I own an AMD A8 3510mx APU, which is a Quad Core CPU 1800~2500 GHz with and ATI video card 512 memory with a clock up to 444 MHz. With that machine i have play the three COD MW at full settings (Max res size 1366*768), Frostbite engine (Battlefield 3, NFS The Run and newest EA games) is a bit more challenging so i must set video settings to HIGH if i want at least 30 FPS. GTA IV can run at medium~minimum video settings at 30FPS. I don't have Mafia. The flawless part of my machine is the CPU speed; not the video card.

With that example i want show to you that AMD machines aren't "bad", in fact, some AMD machines are better for gaming that most Intel ones.

Since you call yourself a middle range gamer, you can set up a middle and decent machine with a 300~400$ budget:
AMD A10-5800k = 120$ on Amazon.
MSI A75MA-E35: USB3.0/1866MHzRAM = 64$ on Amazon.
4GBx2 (8Gb at 1600MHz) = 46$ on Amazon.

The rest is up to you. A 400w power station could handle all that, but if you prefer an dedicated video card and multiple drives you must set a powerful one.
A 7200 HDD will make a great job, however, the SSD newest models are recommended to install the OS, programs and if big enough, the game you are playing; for storage let the HDD.

 

u=i have to agree with the guy just a bouve mye but if you can get one still get the radion 5770 its a power full beast im runing one now