Fun!
Years ago I had a maxed out IIci 601/66, 128MB RAM, RasterOPS 24bit video card(with video capture), PAS 16 sound card, and Ethernet (sometimes I pulled the sound card for the FWB SCSI card and external RAID).
OOOOOOoooooohhhhh I tried to get my hands on that in college for $0, to do basically that. Had a friend that worked in one of the computer labs, we were going to try to bridge the administrative Appletalk network to the dorm Appletalk network. Just so we could monkey around on the network...
G5 iMac has been rescued from being recycled. turns on, gives me the gray apple screen but just a constant spinning gear. sounds like corrupt data/failing drive? pulled the drive out and realized I don't have an SATA to USB adaptor any more (well just have one for 2.5" drives). next trick...
yeah that's a bit. pulling about 200w on my '13 trashcan, most of that is the monitor, 78w with the display off. still not media server friendly like a mini. the '09 I'm using as a server in the basement is drawing 30w and that includes the smart network switch and external HDDs. But...
from what I remember(been a while) with the rasterops video card in my IIci, it could play live video on the screen smooth, but recording was highly dependent on the speed of my drives/SCSI bus, not the processor speed.