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If you are going to play the "latest and greatest" games or have applications that can offload processing to the cards it can make a world difference. Some applications in particular image and video editors can harness the GPU processor in particular if they are doing any 3-D rendering.
For average use surfing the web, email, basic image/video editing it's unimportant, spend the money on CPU, RAM or drive space.
Depends entirely on what the computer will be used for, if you're just doing internet/email and document editing you won't notice a difference. If this is your case I would suggest putting the extra money into an SSD.
What GPU is it using. The R7 430 has a 4 GB version and it's an awful card. There's also a 4 GB version of the RX 480 which is a pretty decent lower mid-range card. Whether or not you care depends what you're doing.
As everyone else is saying, your choices all depend on what the computer will be used for.
You don't buy a car that looks pretty, but has massive off-road tires, huge spots and grilles, but will be used as a downtown-only daily commuter.
If you do graphic design, top-end games, CAD, then focus on the graphics card.
If you store huge files, get a motherboard that has the latest (IE: fastest) BUS external and internal. IE: USB3 and SATA6, and buy huge internal and/or external drives that exchange data this fast.
If you run calculation-intensive programs, then get a top CPU and pay extra for latest massive RAM for your motherboard.
If you use it to surf the net, hit Facebook, and stream TV and Movies, then get a pretty cheap PC and pay to get a fast Internet connection.
Word processing, email, calendar only? Keep your XP.
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