Imo too high power consumption for 24/7 operation so I wouldn’t use it that way. If I only had this machine to work with, i’d probably use it as a media server or NAS but turn it on only as needed. Wake on LAN to turn it on and configure it to auto turn off.
Tony hawk again? I remember I used THPS 3 or 4 to mod my og Xbox last year since you could run code thought loading a save game through it.