Is the AMD A8-5600K good for a budget performance build?

Hi! I am hardwarenerdPH. I am a new user here. I mainly registered to ask a question, though I will participate in future forum discussions.

Is the AMD A8-5600K (Trinity) APU good enough for a budget performance and gaming build?

I'm used to not gaming at high settings on the latest games, however my setup is starting to show age. My current PC setup is a Pentium Dual Core running at 2.7 GHz. I also have the NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT graphics card (which, according to the Tom's Hardware Graphics Card Hierarchy, is in the same level as a GeForce 6800, or Intel HD Graphics 3000), 2GB of RAM, and a 70 GB OS HDD.

Yeah, that sounds like a pathetic setup to the users here in First World countries, but here in Southeast Asia the economy isn't booming (and China is not part of Southeast Asia people, I live in the Philippines) and we live on a fairly average income. At least average in our country, but I'm no so sure how things are going in the first world countries.

I do have an Xbox 360, which we payed for in credit, but there is more you can do in a PC, like 3D rendering - which I do occasionally - and gaming with mods. The one thing the Xbox cannot beat the PC is in mods. No matter how optimized your games are to the Xbox, you can't mod them as extensively as a PC game.

However, the aging of our old Pentium setup is starting to show even in BROWSING. This thing can seriously slow down Chrome - and it's not load times. Even if pages are fully downloaded, scrolling is getting choppier. Even PowerPoint is draining system resources.

So, I've been researching for a budget upgrade that improves performance without making us break the bank. I've found the AMD A8-5600K. So that I won't confuse the other countries' Tom's Hardware users, I'll use USD prices here.

The A8-5600K has the AMD Radeon HD 7560D, which is not only better than my GeForce 9400GT, but also better than the Intel HD Graphics 4000 (which is several steps above the Graphics 3000 my 9400GT matches) and is on par with the 7800 GTX (which, admittedly, is actually pretty impressive for this third-world guy).

And it's only $99.99. Couple that with a good MSI $49.99 MOBO and $24.99 DDR3 cards (my current mobo uses DDR2), and it's actually a cheap upgrade compared to the difference from my previous upgrade. In THAT upgrade, I got to my current config, which is still better than my Pentium 4 3.1 GHz + NVIDIA 7200 GS setup that we got a LONG time ago.

So, with the quad-core 3.6 GHz processor, plus the built-in GPU being faster than my old one, is it worth upgrading? I know that, with the gains, it's theoretically a good upgrade, but I've heard that people had problems with AMD in the past, and while I don't see a lot of Trinity reviews with THAT negativity, I still had to consult the people here at the forums to make sure that I didn't get a flaw in my research. With the economy over here, I still can't afford to spend $175 just to have hiccups and bad service.

Thank you. And by the way, ever wonder why I keep on mentioning "third world" and our economy? Because I've seen past threads where many answers were like "Save $300 and buy a Core i5." With our situation, saving THAT much isn't that feasible anymore. Those answers aren't helpful.