It depends a great deal on how disciplined your daughter is about backing up and organizing projects. The graphics card upgrade is definitely worth it for someone working with graphics, obviously, but the hard drive upgrade wouldn't be quite so important if she invested in an external drive for projects (which take up a lot of space) and religiously backed up that external drive to another one (a separate drive, not another partition). Since I think you have to do the whole package at once, you probably should -- it should help the machine stay relevant to her work longer, which is important to the overall value of it, and it will increase the resale value when it is time to move on (which will probably come quicker than you think -- graphic artists tend to be power users, so they'll want/need something ever more powerful in less time than a typical home user).