Need to Upgrade an S939 System

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My family are using my old S939 system at home (my mums house) and its getting on a bit. The motherboard has already failed and I replaced it, but now the same thing has happened again.

Im going back to the UK in 3 weeks (I work abroad) and I need to sort it out for them. Current system is:

Athlon X2 3800
3GB PC4000
ASUS nforce4 SLI
8800GTS 320Mb.
250Gb HDD

Ive got about £200 max to upgrade, shall I replace the CPU/mobo/RAM with some 2nd hand C2D parts?

Or shall I buy them a Mac Mini (2nd hand)? I just want something for them to use thats minimal hassle, because Im not in the UK to sort out these sorts of problems for them. Any advice would be appreciated :)
 
could go with either of the following, take it the PSU is okay ? :

Asus P5QL Pro Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.98 (£56.50)

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.60GHz (800FSB) - Retail £52.99 (£46.08)

Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX Dual Channel (TWIN2X4096-6400C5C) £33.99 (£29.56)

Sub Total : £132.14
Shipping : £9.50
VAT : £21.25
Total : £162.89

Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £70.99 (£61.73)

OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3G16004GK) £57.99 (£50.43)

AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 240 2.8GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £45.99 (£39.99)

Sub Total : £152.15
Shipping : £9.00
VAT : £24.17
Total : £185.32
 
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