ZimaBoard is a SBC with an Intel Celeron Processor ‘Apollo Lake’ N3450 that runs Linux and Windows.
Will ROCK run on a ZimaBoard SBC?
For comparison between this and a (rather average) 10i5 i5-10210U that is on the ROCK recommendation list:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2907vs3542/Intel-Celeron-N3450-vs-Intel-i5-10210U
Draw your conclusions. And of course that’s just the CPU, if ROCK will run generally on this device depends on whether the drivers it needs are in ROCK’s Linux kernel - maybe and maybe not. In any case it will be an unsupported MOCK.
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The rather more correct comparison would be with the minimal spec 5th gen i3. It might work but the processor will be underpowered and elements like Ethernet may not work. Also it has to be a SATA or NVME SSD. Ob board flash memory will not be sen by ROCK.
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Maybe, if one wants to run a minimal-spec ROCK. I took an average modern one that is actually available. The ROCK page recommends a NUC11TNHi3 for small-to-medium libraries, which has an i3-1115G4. Anyway, I provided the link so anyone can plug in their favorite CPU:
If we compare the Celeron in the ZimaBoard, my 10i5, the 5i3 you suggested, and the 11i3 from the current ROCK recommendation:
So the ZimaBoard’s Celeron will probably run with 70% of the performance of the minimal NUC from 8 years ago, as we must consider single-core performance foremost
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I find it interesting that we are still dimensioning Roon using i prefixed processors when an i3 today is way more powerful than when Roon was originally conceived. If the question is, “is it supported?” then the answer is simple but that doesn’t mean it won’t run on the ZimaBoard. I wouldn’t tell anyone to go out and buy an unsupported or untested device but I’d encourage anyone to try it if they have it for the sake of user data. 
If it works report it in the MOCK thread. 
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On the other hand, Roon today surely does much more than when it was originally conceived, and new users probably expect to be able to use the current feature set with reasonable performance, like DSP for instance