I don't mean to bad mouth AMD but if you go that way the simple fact will be you will have a 2nd rate machine , both in cpu and gpu . Intel and Nvidia blow the doors off anything AMD comes up with , the days of AMD being king of gaming are over . With the Intel machine you future proof yourself and have room to significantly upgrade . While the R 280 is quite a bit better by the numbers , it also is power hungry which means heat which means failure . I have the gtx 750 ti 2gb card and it is awesome for such a low power card , being able to run most games on very high .