For a thousand bucks of CPU, motherboard and RAM, anyone with a modicum of clue building x86-64 industry standard PC hardware could set up something based on Ryzen that runs circles around that. Probably at least quadruple the performance in any integer or floating point benchmarks.

$659 ryzen 5800X

$250 motherboard

Reasonable, but not exciting. Cortex-A72 is quite old by now. Just compare EC2 a1 instances vs. the newer ones.

Just compare how much such an exciting AWS instance would cost in a month.

You can't compare it to owning a whole machine for several years, having bought it once.

That puppy is on my wish list if tax refunds are a thing this spring.

This looks what I was searching for. Thank you!