[John Rogers]

Speed, speed, speed! I have been using Asus motherboards, AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPU (video card) for several years now, actually a lot. Figure to build a machine that would be a high end gaming machine since it will be used for graphics both serious and games too. Look for a small shop run by a family from Vietnam or Korea or Japan as they give great service:
- Multi-core CPU such as Intel I9. You can use two or three cores to do one thing and two or three to do something else and all run fast.
- GPU such as the fastest Nvidia card you can find.
- ASUS motherboard that will run 64 bit Windows 10 with 64MB RAM at least.
- DVD reader/burner
- 2 or 3 terabyte sized hard drives, one SSD drive for the OS for speed, the other for applications and backups.
- The fastest internet access you have in your area and use another router on top of the box the ISP gives you for extra security. No Wifi if possible otherwise set certain NIC access only.
- 40 inch flat screen video/tv set with HDMI input ( they are cheap now as I just bought a 50 inch 4k Vizio set for $200).
- Largest case and power supply with several fans for cooling.

This won't be cheap BUT it will last for 4 or 5 years so the cost will even out. She'll learn a bunch doing this.