What linux to put on a 2007 laptop?

Question

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I have an old laptop from around 2007. Asus f5rl series. Initial parameters rozetka.com.ua/5706/p5706/.
I added 1 die for 1 gig, now 2 gigs of RAM and 2 cores of 1.4 GG each. I also changed the hard one to a more voluminous one slusar.su/zamena-vinchestera-na-noutbuke .
Worth XP and Xubuntu 14.04.
In piggy everything works fine, no complaints. But in the crysk it gradually starts to warm up + and terribly slows down online video. The same thing was observed when using Mint 17. Somewhere I met an explanation that old processors are heated on the new Linux kernel. Is it true? And if so, which distro to put in order for the laptop to work normally on the existing parameters?
Just not knopiksy and pappy. I would like from such Mint, Xubunt, Lubunt or Fedora, which work normally on old hardware.
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Install proprietary driver for Radeon Xpress 1100

Answer 2

Some Linux 2007

Answer 3

On an even older copy (2005), I have ArchLinux, which is updated daily. The last core - everything flies.
WM Openbox.

Answer 4

The solution came naturally. Installed the latest Ubuntu-Mate. I can not get enough of the speed and stability of work. Problems that arose were solved quickly and without tambourines.
Thanks anyway for the replies. Got some interesting ideas. Thanks to all.

Answer 5

I have one at home. And nothing, the gentochka is spinning. True, I compile at work, I pull purely binary packages home.

Answer 6

manjaro or gentoo... the main thing during installation is to choose a light graphical environment, lxde or openbox

Answer 7

I think, instead of throwing between distributions, you should first look at why the laptop is heating up. Maybe the coolers are not controlled by the BIOS? Maybe some kind of program on python eats percent?