Is the i3-2100 suitable for a 1C client or do I need to build a new one based on the G5420, Ryzen 3 2200G or i3-9100?

Question

Computers

All good. At work, they asked me to allocate a computer for one of the retail outlets. First, I figured out how much a new system unit costs if you take it from us, then assemblies on the g5420, ryzen 3 2200g and i3-9100 will cost 21k, 26k and 28k, respectively. And then I remembered that I have an old system unit lying around in my bins that no one uses, i3-2100 with an old 320GB HDD and 2GB DDR3. And so I thought - if I throw in a 4GB DDR3 chip, a 120GB SSD, will the system work faster? and so I asked why he was lying around, they said that he began to slow down after a couple of years and therefore bought another one. Will the slightly improved i3-2100 be enough for the 1c Retail 2.2 client application and work with mail, excel?
PS I ask you not to kick too hard, of course I understand that before people used to sit in offices on single-core celerons with 1.5 Hz, I myself remember playing Aion on stump 4th. But at work, it’s so customary for us, as soon as something starts to slow down a little, they already begin to think that they need to buy a new computer, which they do.

Answer 1

On SSD + 6 Gigabytes of memory and i3, although the old generation, retail will work fine ...
SSD-shnik only for 256 is more reliable, such as Samsung / Plextor

Answer 2

Well, depending on how it will be used and how heavy the client is.
For a warehouse workstation for pure input-output information and smaller machines abound

Answer 3

Many old computers slow down due to HDDs, which are usually 5-7+ years old, often changing to a new hdd / ssd helps, if you add up to 8 GB of memory, then most likely it will still work fine.

But at work, it’s so customary for us, as soon as something starts to slow down a little, they already begin to think that they need to buy a new computer, which they do.

If there are no problems with money, then do it. It rather depends on what a person is used to working with and how it is customary in the company.

PS I ask you not to kick too hard, of course I understand that before people used to sit in offices on single-core celerons with 1.5 Hz, I myself remember playing Aion on stump 4th.

Well, you understand that everything depends on the person. From personal experience, now many people believe that desktop systems on hdd are dead, although everything works quite fine on new screws (I felt the real difference only in the system boot speed, the rest is generally trifles), but you can’t convince people anymore.