How to adapt old hardware for web surfing and watching YouTube videos?

Question

Iron

Greetings.
There is an old build:

• Motherboard EP-8RDA3+
  
• Processor AMD K7 1250Mhz
  
• RAM 2GB
  
• Video card GeForce 6600 GT
  

I wanted to adapt this fossil simply for surfing the Internet and watching videos on YouTube. Well, look at the pictures, print them in Word. Initially, there was win xp, very shabby for years and incomprehensible software, that's why it was decided to put it all over again. Since there was a flash drive with win 7 at hand, it was installed for the sake of interest. Surprisingly, everything turned out the way it should. And it would be possible to end here, but the videos on youtube are terribly slow. Video is running at 1fps. The CPU load at this moment, of course, is 100%.
I would like to know in advance whether the installation of win xp will save the situation, or will such hardware not pull YouTube?
The browsers were Firefox 40 something and K-Meleon 75.1 (since there is no support for sse2, these are almost the only adequate options).
PS Of course, I could install yes and check, but there is no free time for this.

Answer 1

Try downloading this video from YouTube and watching it through the same MPC-HC or VLC, and it will be seen there whether you have hardware support for H264 or not.
Well, either immediately install Firefox with the h264ify plugin and try this.

Answer 2

No way. It is because of Internet surfing that this is the most costly task for home and office computers.
If you still decide to rape a corpse, then Win7 has no alternatives.

Answer 3

If the percentage is single-core, then nothing will help, try to find a processor on ebay for your socket, see the cpu-z program, the main thing is that the number of cores is more than one, and preferably the core frequency is higher

Answer 4

Stop raping the corpse :)
And donate it to the nearest kindergarten - let him work there with a typewriter, because that's all he is still capable of. Watching a video is a very resource-intensive task.

Answer 5

Of course, the percent is already "purely for printing", if it is possible to find a hobya of 2.2 GHz, then it would be ideal
. - if possible - it's better to install ssd - kingston uv500 at 120 would be ideal
Put Win7 Starter or maximum base / home
from browsers to pick up what by typing

Answer 6

It will work, but not on Win7.
Win7 needs 4GB of memory for it to turn at least somehow.

Answer 7

I see a trend that people like to be in pain when using old, very old hardware, nothing will help, they do not have hardware decoders to comfortably watch, and there is not enough core power. Nothing will come of it. Go to Avito, I beg you

Answer 8

It could have pulled the task, but the input-output interfaces are painfully slow - network, hard, RAM ... I recently tested P4 2.1 GHz single-core iron and without hyper-trading with ddr1, the Internet pulls there with pain and conditional multitasking tolerably YouTube at 240r and 360r without brakes ...
If you are looking for the minimum workable hardware for trouble-free Internet surfing for the current day, then you need to look in the direction of 2 nuclear stones and 2-4GB of RAM at frequencies from 800MHz and higher, with gigabit network and at least a SATA 1 hard drive, as well as focus on Linux / Windows 7 and older. I love XP, but due to the collapse of support by the developers and the release of new software, I have to refocus on something more modern