Have a old ass pc with 2 gb ram and windows 10 and runs very slow

[fathom pelican]

Memory utilization is 90% with task manager open
Specs: optiplex 380
Core 2 duo e7500
ddr3 1333 2gb

Os: windows 10 21H2

[somber meadow]

Buy more ram?

Use windows xp till then?

[fathom pelican]

Getting 2 more gb tmr

Any more optimizations?

[somber meadow]

Buy 8gb ram

[fathom pelican]

Max support is 4gb

sadly

[languid ledge]

Sell the whole system and get something remotely modern

[somber meadow]

Downgrade to windows 7 or use windows 10 debloated edition

[languid ledge]

You shouldn’t be pouring any kind of effort into a core 2 duo machine

[fathom pelican]

We have a pc with the same exact specs in my school (same e7500 and 2gb ram) but with windows 10 1809 or 1803 iirc and has 50% util with like chrome tabs open

so where the fuck do I get that outdated ver of windows

[languid ledge]

.

[burnt ice]

sell the whole system as an authentic collectors item

[fathom pelican]

If I sell that machine the max I'll get is 5k inr and I'll get nothing with that

[somber meadow]

Bro, did u steal it from your school?

[somber meadow]

Bro, give it back to school

[fathom pelican]

very worn physical condition

[burnt ice]

still, sell it as that

[fathom pelican]

This is a optiplex and my school uses thinkcenters

[burnt ice]

or keep it as a streaming pc and buy a new one

[fathom pelican]

I'm not a streamer

[fathom pelican]

Can you link me to any debloated versions?

[fathom pelican]

Sadly, I dint have the means or the cash to get a new system atleast until 2nd half next year

[languid ledge]

If money is that tight you definitely shouldn’t be putting money into a machine that can barely run the OS

[somber meadow]

Just google windows 10 gaming os or something similar

[low saffron]

Those can be quite sketch and vulnerable. O&O ShutUp 10 does the same thing without putting you at risk

[fathom pelican]

Please send me a link

[low saffron]

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

It's free and straightfoward. Lets you disable lots and lots of bloaty features on windows
However, you're still greatly limited by the 4gb ram. You can only do so much there.
I would advise checking out linux if you're willing, it is much snappier on old systems like that.
No matter waht, do not spend any more money maintaining such an old machine

[fathom pelican]

Will consider linux

[outer wraith]

2GB is pretty much dead end on Windows, 4GB is barely tolerable for simple tasks.

On Linux with say lubuntu 4GB becomes a fair bit to work with though still not luxurious especially on the mechanical hdd I bet that system has

[low saffron]

An SSD is a worthy upgrade that you can take with you whenever you get a newer system

[buoyant phoenix]

and a 256GB SSD is like 20ish bucks

[fathom pelican]

I'm getting a 4350g (or it's successor of it ever get released to public) next year

based system

16 gb ram
500gb ssd

I know am4 is a dead end but I'm not going to upgrade it ever

[low saffron]

AM4 is deprecated but that doesn't mean there's no upgrade path

Especially if you're starting out with 4350g

Buying a 5800X3D two years from now would still be a massive upgrade

It's all relative

[tight granite]

could probably get away with a lightweight linux build like arch on that system

[low saffron]

Yes

[tight granite]

but probably don't try to build any aur packages

[burnt ice]

i mean youtube, twitch and stuff, just for watching

[burnt ice]

save up and buy 7600x and save up even more for a big bang on your gpu

am5 seems to stay for 5 years or so, is worth t

[whole hatch]

You can use an OS Named Atlas OS

Or tiny10

[fathom pelican]

Instead of buying a am5 platform I could pay like half of my intermediate college fees

if I get a pc
I'm not changing out anything unless it's necessary for the next 4 years

[fathom pelican]

For me there is no upgrade path

[low saffron]

If you're running a 4350g on the platform, there is most definitely an upgrade path