Question What is an ideal desired gaming frame rate, and game video quality? What CPU and GPU would achieve that has the lowest price?

[davidl41]

Trying to figure out what is a good goal for gaming FPS and video quality. Are you aiming for 100+ FPS with low and mid quality graphics settings in gaming? Or, mid and high setting with 80fps?

Would a GPU and CPU combo achieve 100+ FPS on a mix of low and medium settings and cost no more than $500 for graphics card, and no more than $200 for a CPU? If not, which specific combo would you recommend that is under that budget?

 

[CountMike]

Trying to figure out what is a good goal for gaming FPS and video quality. Are you aiming for 100+ FPS with low and mid quality graphics settings in gaming? Or, mid and high setting with 80fps?

Would a GPU and CPU combo achieve 100+ FPS on a mix of low and medium settings and cost no more than $500 for graphics card, and no more than $200 for a CPU? If not, which specific combo would you recommend that is under that budget?

"Gaming" is too wide term to answer a question like that. With some games (mainly action and shooters). FPS is more important than graphics quality and details, you simply have no time to admire graphics quality and details. for role playing you want as much realism as possible. Online gaming presents different conditions.
Also have to match monitor resolution and frequency.

 

[alceryes]

Trying to figure out what is a good goal for gaming FPS and video quality. Are you aiming for 100+ FPS with low and mid quality graphics settings in gaming? Or, mid and high setting with 80fps?

Would a GPU and CPU combo achieve 100+ FPS on a mix of low and medium settings and cost no more than $500 for graphics card, and no more than $200 for a CPU? If not, which specific combo would you recommend that is under that budget?

The best BF/CM deal may get you a CPU and GPU for around $500 that will run some games at 100+FPS, but your question is way too vague.
First let's start with the parts you have. We need to know what motherboard and monitor you plan to use. Also, a minimum of an SSD drive is needed for most games to not stutter during loading of assets.

 

[punkncat]

Reading between the lines a bit here seems to indicate that you could have a budget around $7-800. As asked above it would be handy to know if you have a monitor and other peripherals.

Looking back at AM4, or 12th gen Intel would be fairly easy to find a pretty decent build with that budget. The issue here is going to be that it is instantly obsolete. There is no upgrade path out of AM4, and 13/14th gen Intel have that power/BIOS issue which leave a lot of folks (including me) reluctant to try them.

You might be able to squeeze an AM5 Ryzen 5 build out of that budget with some judicious choices and think that would be the approach I would take first.

As far as value for money goes, in relation to graphics cards, I would consider looking at RX 6xxx or 7xxx models.

Are you near a MicroCenter? They have some attractive bundles that might work well for you.