should I move an IMac 8.1 to El Capitan?

Hi, I had a very old IMac lying around (imac 8.1. It has 2 GB of memory and a single Intel processor) and I didn't have Snow Leopard top to get El Capitan on it and upgrade the memory to 4 GB, it's worth the expense and time or is this machine? Or should I just leave it like that? Currently, I use it just because it is really slow.

It would be an iMac in early 2008, and even with only 2 GB of RAM should not be turn slowly. Upgrade to El Capitan will not improve speed - even if you upgrade to 4 GB of RAM.

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