These are modern CPU's that I mine on, I just said you can mine on anything made this decade..
The I-3 and I-5 Intel series is solid for mining CPU coins. I can mine things such as Bytecoin and Monero, that are CPU coin. I use hardly any electricity, because they draw such little power. I have basically an 8 core, I series miner, they run at a steady degrees 135-145F mining CPU coin at less than 280w. (The 2 Modern Laptops=probably the same as my Ps4) My power bill is always low anyway, I do not ever pay more than $60 a month, this added maby $4 a month. I also have a larger GPU mining tower, but that is now sitting because believe it or not, right now the CPU based coin mining is more profitable for me. I have 8 modern cores CPU mine, with less power, than my GPU miner that is over 650w and is mining ETH in a an over saturated situation where my rates are lower. I have made more than $1000 mining CPU coin, as opposed to my GPU tower than only got me in the same time frame $640.
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Yeah That is a good point, I actually make with my setup between the 2 Laptops with 4 threads each running at %80 load around $130 though lately per month because of the Monero price increase above 100 usd. I feel like I hit a jackpot pool also, and these are spare rigs..
I would love for some people like you though that actually know alot about crypto (I can tell you know whats up) to revisit Monero CPU mining, its the best right now %100!! I feel like it is a complete hidden gem I have 1gb per core x 4 plus 2 machines so 8 cores with 1gig each mining happy at 140f average and a total of 280w of power. They have been running like this for many months now.
AES not needed
Here are the steps I take to install CPU miner, my CPU doesn't support AES as well:
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev automake build-essential git
$ sudo apt-get install libtool
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/LucasJones/cpuminer-multi.git
$ cd cpuminer-multi
$ echo "autoreconf -i" >> autogen.sh
$ ./autogen.sh
$ sudo CFLAGS="-march=native" ./configure
$ sudo make
$ ./minerd -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://xmr.minercircle.com:80 -u -p x
AES is and cant be software driven with Opencl