In article , Yousuf Khan
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Well, I was looking at a couple of upgrades for a friend's computer. I
built the computer for them several years ago, so it's now time for a
few performance upgrades. The system currently consists of a
Haswell-generation Celeron, and using just Intel graphics. So the idea
is to upgrade that processor to higher end 4th or 5th gen (Haswell or
Broadwell) Core i5 or higher, preferably i7. And also to upgrade that
graphics to a lowest-end graphics card, because they got themselves an
ultrawide monitor.

The first thing I look at is the disk. If it is rotating rust, I upgrade
to SSD. That alone improves performance a lot.

The disk is fine, it's actually one of those hybrid SSHD's with a small
SSD caching a 1TB HDD.

it may be fine, but an ssd will be a significant improvement, by far
the easiest and most cost effective upgrade.

hybrid drives are only slightly faster than a regular drive except in
the unlikely scenario everything is running from cache.

The important upgrade here is the graphics card,
they really need something that will accommodate their ultrawide
monitor's resolution natively.

how wide is ultrawide?