[SOLVED] Upgrades for new (older) PC?

[Burner1061]

I'm getting my mom's desktop because she uses a Chromebook now. It's an HP Pavilion p7-1534 which is a huge upgrade from my Gateway E4610D lol. It's completely stock and has an AMD A8-5500 APU with AMD Radeon HD 7560D graphics and 8 gigs of DDR3 ram. I don't want to pay for a new motherboard so could I get some recommendations for upgrades? I find the best CPU is the AMD A10-5800K but I may be wrong so I'm asking here. Thank you in advance.

 

[rgd1101]

upgraded to a ssd yet?

 

[Burner1061]

upgraded to a ssd yet?

no. It has a 1TB hard drive

 

[USAFRet]

1TB SSD and a fresh OS install.
Without a full rebuild, that is the best option you have.