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No point in spending so much on an APU when you are going to use a dedicated graphics card, you are just losing price/performance. The Pentium will do just fine, even an i3, or an AMD Athlon 760K.
For a 7950, you need at least 550 watts power supply 80 plus bronze and (optional) an AMD FX-6300 or any i5 for it to run without a bottleneck, to squeeze out as much performance out of it as possible.

Here is an AMD CPU build for you anyways. It is a little bit over budget that's why I recommend the Pentium build if you can't go over it:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($77.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI A78M-E35 Micro ATX...
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Mr_Venbeer

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This one is more decent and faster:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($63.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($60.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($51.85 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Rosewill CHALLENGER ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($24.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $401.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-25 00:11 EST-0500
 
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Thanks and if I could add a Sapphire 7950HD would that be better than the GTX 750ti?
 
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I, myself, would recommend going for an AMD cpu with this lower end build.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/CMhXdC
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/CMhXdC/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($89.94 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Team Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($118.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Azza SIRIUS ATX Mid Tower Case ($26.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($27.99 @ Micro Center)
Total: $387.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-01 13:58 EST-0500

Tell me how it works out!
 
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Mr_Venbeer

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No point in spending so much on an APU when you are going to use a dedicated graphics card, you are just losing price/performance. The Pentium will do just fine, even an i3, or an AMD Athlon 760K.
For a 7950, you need at least 550 watts power supply 80 plus bronze and (optional) an AMD FX-6300 or any i5 for it to run without a bottleneck, to squeeze out as much performance out of it as possible.

Here is an AMD CPU build for you anyways. It is a little bit over budget that's why I recommend the Pentium build if you can't go over it:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($77.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI A78M-E35 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($58.84 @ Amazon)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($67.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($51.85 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Superclocked Video Card ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Antec One ATX Mid Tower Case ($24.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $421.64
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-01 15:48 EST-0500

I had to change the RAM because prices have significantly increased for all memory :(
 
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