Advice on build

[azteched]

I'm looking to build a new PC for my mum - nothing fancy, just office / web / email / maybe some photo editing. I'm rather out of touch with current hardware, and would like to know what sort of processor & motherboard would be the best choice - perhaps a Sempron?

A motherboard with graphics, sound and LAN onboard would probably be most suitable, I suppose - are the nForce boards still any good? (running an old nForce2 here).

Thanks.

 

[ryansm]

I just built a PC for my mum for the same thing, although not photo editing, she wanted to do some design. (flyers and stuff)

I put together a :

Sempron 2800+ AM2 (comes with HS/Fan)
1Gb DDR2 PC4200 (generic stuff)
Asrock AM2NF4G-SATA2 AM2 microATX (Overclockers do similar ones made by Asus and Gigabyte etc...)
80Gb Sata Hard Disk
DVD RW Drive
Memory Card Slots (could be handy for photo editing)
and A Cheap Micro ATX Case with 420W PSU!

The motherboard has 7.1 audio, Integrated NV44 graphics DX9.0 VGA, Pixel Shader 3.0,which shares 128mb of memory and a PCI-e slot incase you want to upgrade the GFX.

All this cost me under £200 delivered, and I got a mouse and keyboard. Works perfect! Now she wants a TFT though, cause they look pretty!

 

[semi-pro waster]

You might actually be better looking at secondhand systems, the uses you describe will be covered by any PC that is say 1.2ghz, 512mb Ram and up. A new PC will probably cost you more and be overkill but if you want that then what ryansm describes is a good option.