Best OS for 2010 upgrade 2.4 core duo?

So I got my my mini 2010 since then and it has been relegated to a platform of film glorified since 2012 when I got a high-end MacBook.

I have now the need for a desktop computer handle some heavy windows based like HCSS and AutoCAD programs, but rather than spend $1,000 on a good windows based machine, I decided to upgrade my mini. I'll be it bumping 4 g to 16g of RAM and replace my drive dead optical with an OWC data Doubler and 2 TB hard drive. Once I got to the top and do work in that I'll migrate the HD existing more to the datadoubler drive in order to install an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6 G SSD as my main HD. I use boot camp and a play windows 7 copy but also have a copy of parallels 11. I am running Yosemite with boot camp on my MacBook for the same programs.

I'm running Mavericks on the mini and have no problem it contains at the moment, I can still go to Yosemite.

My question is which OS, including El Capitan, give me the faster and more stable platform on this configuration?

Did someone of another similar configurations running?

I found no later versions of the OSX (10: 9 - 10.11) make much difference in the slowness with adequate memory. If you do not want the new features in OS x versions later and apps yo want to run for only requires is not a superior OSX version, I see no reason to update

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