I bought a 10 year old PC that was loaded with Windows 7 and hardly ran at all. Installing Lubuntu converted it into a usable machine. I have doubled the RAM to 2 GB DDR2 667 MHz, doubled the number of memory channels to 2, doubled the processing power to a Core 2 Duo E6700 (Passmark 1694) and installed an SSD. Performance with Lubuntu 18.04 is now pretty good. Boot time is 20 seconds. Firefox takes 5 seconds to load, and most web pages load very quickly. Installing U-Block Origin has helped for sites with lots of adds. Nonetheless, some websites load slowly with Firefox (e.g. Google News with all its little pictures). The motherboard is an Intel D945GCNL with GNA 950 graphics, and has a PCI Express x16 slot. I am using the original 1024x768 monitor. A GT 710 is relatively cheap, and should be easy to install. Would it significantly reduce the load time for complex web pages?
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