Is Intel 4400 good enough for YouTube and web surfing?

[atxcyclist]

I am doing a refresh on my mother’s old computer, but have a conundrum with the video device options. I’m using an i3 4150, which has HD 4400 integrated graphics, but I don’t know if they’re good enough for 1080p YouTube and HTML 5-laden websites. The market is flooded with OEM R5 340x cards right now that are cheap, and looking at one of those as an option if the integrated graphics are not suitable.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yea the igpu will be more than enough for this use case. Id say the biggest thing for performance here is having a ssd, and 8gb+ of ram.

[YoungBlade]

I use an i5 3320M on my laptop. It doesn't have trouble with 1080p YouTube, even at 60 fps, nor does it have problems browsing basically any site. The i3 4150 is more powerful in every respect, so it'll be fine.

[atxcyclist]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea the igpu will be more than enough for this use case. Id say the biggest thing for performance here is having a ssd, and 8gb+ of ram.

I’m limited to a two DIMM board, but I’m going with a 2x4GB 1600 kit from my stockpile of parts. I am also installing a good SSD with a DRAM cache, so storage should be plenty speedy for her needs. 
 

This is an upgrade from a tired old Phenom II setup, so not a huge step up in performance but the hardware is newer.