Iirc Linus from Linus tech tips benchmarked a pc build like the one suggested in the article. It didn't come out great. But even for simple tasks, those CPUs m

Iirc Linus from Linus tech tips benchmarked a pc build like the one suggested in the article. It didn't come out great. But even for simple tasks, those CPUs might not even have hardware accelerated crypto (aes-ni instruction set iirc). And are probably less efficient than modern CPUs. Long story short: I wouldn't bother unless performances power bills are not a problem.