should i get a cheap card or a cpu + gpu as i am on a budget
depend on your budget and how hard you wanna play games.
i get your drift so i may just get the a-10
until later when i got the cash
I think the A10 is the best bet. You can always OC the GPU cores for more performance. I believe they should get up to 950MHz on stock, but don't quote me on that.
Just built my brother a desktop with the Trinity A8-5600k and he is running BF3 at 1920x1080 maxed with no filters. If you are going to go with an APU I high suggest you get some decent ram because it makes a huge difference on the APUs. My brother's desktop is running 1866.
Example of what I'm talking about: