Reviving old Macs, good or bad idea

Of note, although in general I have found the M1 macs to be 3-4x as fast running general apps (including FileMaker Pro) I have also found a situation in which running FileMaker Server is about 3x slower than under FMS18 on Intel.

I see this when running complex calculations updating thousands of records - See FMS19.6.3 poor performance on M1 mini / Ventura