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I'm not sure if I understand your question. Do you want to upgrade individual hardware components, or upgrade to Win 10 (for free)?

IIUC you can't do a clean install the first time. You have to "upgrade" first, because MS checks your Win 7 license info. Then after Win 10 is first installed you can THEN perform a second, clean install.

Amazingly enough I just now downloaded a new Win 10 update which patches core Sandy Bridge processors. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4497165/kb4497165-intel-microcode-updates

My Dell Latitude e6420 laptop runs Windows 10 just fine. But it has an i5 Sandy Bridge processor, not a i3 Sandy Bridge like yours. Original ship date December 2012. I added another 4 GB of RAM to give it 8 GB total. Win 10 ran better with the increased RAM. Sandy Bridge is a 2nd gen. core...