Amd a6 6400k or athlon x4 860k
The 860k is just slightly worse then a i3 4330 in gaming performance. If you were to OC the 860k to say 4.4 to 4.6GHz, then you should expect to see nearly identical performance to an i3 4330 in games that support 4 cores or more.
The 860k by all accounts is a good buy.
For GPU, i would suggest going with Nvidia. While AMD has better options at this price range, raw performance wise, with such a low end CPU (this applies to an i3 aswell), you want to maximize your performance by exploiting the better CPU overhead that Nvidia graphics drivers have. The difference between AMD and Nvidia, just from this CPU overhead, can mean that even with "inferior hardware", Nvidia cards may give you as much as 5-10 FPS more due to using the CPU more effectively.
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