General use computer build

[Brett39532]

Hi guys how is it going. I was visiting my mother the today and we were discussing how outdated her current pc is. After some conversation she asked if i could upgrade her pc now to some more modern hardware. Will you guys please look over what i have listed below and make comments or suggestions for improvement. This computer will only be used for surfing the internet, browser based games, taxes, word processing, and general computing. Existing components from the last build are the power supply, case, hard drive, and optical drive. This was a custom built pc from around 6 years ago.

 

My concerns 

Should i update the 330W power supply currently in the case due to its age?

 

Build 

 

APU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113333

i also considered the a10 but i don't think it will benefit my mother any for general CPU usage

 

MBU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130662

 

RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277

 

I am also considering adding a small SSD for the OS and the few programs she has installed on the computer or considering getting two smaller drives and putting in raid 1 for document safety she does taxes and a big fear is a hard drive failure and loosing all past years information. I will also be switching from windows vista 32 bit OS to windows 7 64 bit OS

 

Can you guys please help me out i really don't want to spend more than around 350 mark or so as this will only be used for general computing and no gaming any help would be greatly appreciated. Its a little different having to do an APU style build considering all my bast builds the CPU or GPU cost more than this entire upgrade does .

[Jvagle875]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1I4ML Should suit your needs just fine. I don't know much about raid so I'm not going to touch that one. I included 1 4gb stick of ram that way if more ram was needed, you can just throw another stick in there.

[skywake]

You can probably go a lot cheaper on the CPU if it's just word processing and flash games. Even a $50-80US Pentium will do although at that price range it's probably better to go closer to $80 than $50. Also I would put an SSD right up the top of your priority list, even if it's the only thing you improve along with a bit of dust removal and removal of bloatware.

 

The PSU should be fine, I wouldn't bother replacing unless you're having trouble with it.

[WoodenMarker]

Psu should be fine. The 6600k is overkill. 

A modern celeron should do fine: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1JnTD

[Glenwing]

Basically computational power is irrelevant since pretty much any modern CPU will handle whatever she does with ease; for that kind of build the two best things you can do for their computer experience is get an SSD, and a solid and quiet case (along with quiet and reliable power supply, but that should be a given for any kind of build ).

 

I'd get a 64GB SSD over a hard drive if that's enough storage for her.  Below 500GB hard drives at $60 or so, HDDs don't get any cheaper.  320GB drives and 250GB drives are around the same price, because the point of diminishing manufacturing costs has been reached.  Whereas with SSDs the main cost is in the chips, so they can continually cheaper even at small capacities.  If she doesn't need 500GB of storage, HDDs don't get any cheaper after that, so pick a 64GB SSD instead around the same price and benefit from the much better speed and responsiveness.