Here. Main PC what installed Zorin Pro.
I think gamers on this forum might have a better idea than myself.
I have NVidia card just because that what I needed for running Hackintosh. My next built will have an integrated GPU since I am planning to run Linux only.
On this PC i can also running Hackintosh Catalina or Big Sur.
I have installation on pendrive with Clover what I remember.
Starting from Maverick, I went as far as High Sierra.
But Apple getting more and more intrusive which I could not take any more.
Luckily at around the same time the input system in Linux made a vast improvement so I came back to Linux. Input system is the only reason I went to Hackintosh due to my RSI.
I refused to buy a genuine Apple product since I saw so many of my husband's colleagues paying a high price for maintenance of their Mac.
I refuse to own any machine which I cannot service myself.
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Always problem was warranty service a Monitor,battery in laptop also most important small disk. Big price for name and security also for rendering a video and production a music. Linux this years will be more practice. Why? Do you think people trash a laptop or desktop PC because someone put TMP 2.0
People seeing that price don't buying that also someone sayed it will be last version W10. Really? I tested many distribution but people can decide if want donate some operating system linux. I choose a Zorin.
There is a new thread you might be interested to participate:
When I read about the amount GB he has available, perhaps ChromeOS would be an option. It only needs aprox. 8GB.
An alternative for ChromeOS which I have installed on usb is Cloudready.
I watching this all thick laptops and chromebook with SoC processor.
Then I wondering this is for me thablet (nettbrett).
For me this old PC is like exit emergency.
I don't playing a games to much.
Last time I started more interesting a linux.
Maybe I am not to young like him but new experience with linux is a part my life.
It's nice to see how he also revolutionized his glasses when he got older.
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He sayed join to Linux is a "big revolution"
@FrenchPress yes it is....but I would like to put some life in it. Ran great with XP many moons ago. 
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That reminds me of my now diseased XP machine. It had a Pentium CPU and I could cook a egg on it 
I think it succumbed to its own heat.
For 32 bit CPU, you need to look for Debian based distros.
Ubuntu no longer supports 32 bit architecture.
If you could tell me how much RAM you have, I can recommend some distros I know.
Intel had to learn the lesson the hard way, that they couldn't keep up the status quo, in production of their CPU's. The way that Intel competed against AMD in the past, was by producing chips with higher frequencies that would be AMD. They continued this process well into the P4 32-bit days, and single core 64-bit days of the 2000's.
Up until the Intel Extreme chips were made, they were the ones that got the hottest of them all. And these were also the chips that spawned early days DIY janky water cooling systems that leaked, just trying to cool those CPU's! People were becoming avid overclockers by then too, pushing the limits, till they fried their chips.
So what did Intel learn to do things better? Pushing frequency just makes them hotter. So the better way, was to add cores. First it was dual core, then quad core, then hexa core, then octa core. And now there are chips that have 12-core, 16-core 24-core, 32-core, its crazy!
When you add more cores, it allows the chip to handle parallel multi-tasking operations. This speeds up response time, allowing information to be handled more efficiently. Which in turn makes CPU's more efficient. Which allows you to drop temps, which equals extended chip life.
Gaming is generally what really pushes the frequencies. But for the longest time, games wouldn't utilize more then 1-core. It literally took 6-years before games started using like dual core, and another couple years before they started using 4-cores - 6-cores.
This is why in modern day, they say the sweet spot for gaming notebooks is 6-core CPU's. However, for the hardcore gamer, gotta go for the 8-core.
Actually I have a pre-Ryzen CPU in my submachine.
It is AMD FX8350 Black edition 8 core 4.0 GHz.
Be earnest with you, I'd rather not switch that one one on a hot summer day 
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Yes but we have two type games old and new for new architecture processors and gpu. I don;t believe this all thick laptops with SoC processor are gaming or chromebook.
I bet older laptops with cpu and gpu are better from this new thick SoC.
I wonder if your build of hardware are compatible with each other. like the voltage of each (cpu, ram, motherboard) etc. compatibility with everything.
Poor Bourn's GPU was getting so hot you could fry an egg on it. IMO that is too hot. When his GPU had been getting that hot, it really should have been water cooled. And no, I am not joking either.
Its common practice to water cool high end gaming GPU's that tend to get super hot otherwise, especially though if your going to do overclocking. Well, I think the air cooler was probably not enough to cool the GPU.
And if he didn't have enough case fans inside his case to generate solid airflow, ya, the GPU could have taken a strong thermal hit. And don't forget, its not just the GPU itself that can overheat. The VRM could overheat, your mosfets, capacitors, VRAM.
You just never know unless you were to have the card tested by an electrical engineer who is a wizard with circuits and knows how to use a multi-meter. Truth is, I know my way around a multi-meter, you have to, in order to be a mechanic.
But, I am not an electrical engineer, I don't know all the continuity, resistance, ohms values of all the stuff on the PCB for testing, so thats why I say, tested by an electrical engineer, deffinetly. But most of us, would just toss the GPU and get a new one. I would very strongly caution buying used, because when you buy used, you can buy into other people's problems.
You don't know the history of the GPU, how the previous owner took care of it, or abused it. You don't know if its been zapped by static electricity, you just don't know. And sometimes a GPU can seem perfect fine while rendering 2D. But as soon as you start a 3D process, the computer goes to blue screen. !!!YIKES!!!
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If its about crashing of games I give a bit example. My spec is 4gb ram intel hd 5500. core i3. When I play games here that is in 3D, it will starts to heat. The game will starts to load slowly. Same with Blender (so goodbye with 3D life journey for a while) and when I try Genshin Impact, my character didnt move. Yes. Games takes a lot of graphics. The more the graphics are, the more the process data etc that the computer is computing in the background. That's why we have now "gaming pc" thing. That this spec is the quality for gaming.
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Agree. That's why this time, when I buy stuff for upgrading first time, I checked on the sellers review. I don't want second hand thing. It might cause fire all of a sudden. 
but the last thing I would try to replace are those things like GPU. It cost a lot. Its better to buy new one than upgrading if the problem lies with this stuff. (Well at least in my place where I live in)
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