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Load a copy of Linux Mint on it. It will scream again. Adding an ssd drive will do the trick as well.

Build you own. It's like putting legos together, and there are complete youtube videos that show you how.

Get x2 the computer at 1/2 the price

- How To Build a Gaming PC in 2023 for $900 - Step-by-Step Guide
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUu7N8tq4RE

Take your time and check out MANY of other builds before you decide. You can get most of it delivered to your door vis Amazon.com

I don't know but I would recommend an m.2 drive as your main drive and also as your operating system drive

How about you don't upgrade at all and simply replace Windows with Linux? You'll save tons and your computer will run as new again.

It depends on price and what you want to run. Some get hot but you can actually raise them up a bit to keep cool.

You need to know what programs you want to run. That makes a difference as to what to buy

When you narrow down some choices

You can check performance metrics

https://www.userbenchmark.com/PCBuilder

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/

Make sure it does not have bitlocker on it or any Microsoft bios limitations

There was a time where I would say just build your own. And if you still care about that stuff. Go for it. It will be a fun endeavor. Don’t cheap out on a case or you will slice yourself a lot.

Or spare yourself all the trouble and just buy a cheap laptop or tablet. Park that thing near your favorite chair and you can effectively shitpost in the evenings on upgoat like I do. The tablet is hardly an operating system. Android. Apple. It’s all the same crap when you’re just browsing the web. And the Photo Album will slowly fill up with memes and, in a few years, you’ll have plenty of content to re-post.

I built a computer some years back but I don’t play games anymore. So it gathers dust in the basement. Oddly the graphics card sits on a shelf in my office. Been there. Done that. Computers are gay.

Any hardware will suffice. It’s the software that slows the computer in the modern era. What a shame because we live in a time of luxury with the amount of available memory, storage, and processing power.

My iMac is 11, I have 283 tabs in Chrome, and I can run Telegram at the same time. Never had a problem with OS updates, but finally reached the end of updatability this past summer.

Also have a year old windoz gamer, which effectively died after a few months due to some "driver" bullshit. Stick with a Mac.