$300 Ryzen Build?

[fields987]

I'm wanting to spend around $300 for dedicated hardware. I've looked at Protectli and Qotom and for that price both seem like they have components that are either discontinued or several years old. I found this article for a $300 gaming build using a Ryzen 3200G and was wondering if it would be suitable for OPNSense + Sensei and maybe suricata on WAN? This is for home use, ~30 devices. 100Mbps vdsl, but would like it to be capable of gigabit if I upgrade. I've already got a i350-t2 for lan/wan.

https://techguided.com/best-gaming-pc-under-300-dollars/#11

Thanks!

[opnfwb]

That should work and give you the overhead you need. I think the main issue is that the hardware will use an order of magnitude more power and would require active cooling.

For instance, I run a passively cooled J3455 CPU with OPNsense and it can easily push gigabit. I have not used it with Sensei or IPS, so I can't give you feed back there. However, the power consumption is very low. With a quad port I340 NIC and a DC/DC power supply, the system uses 10-11watts. Contrast this with most AC/DC desktop PSUs and lower efficiency desktop hardware, and they will easily consume 30-40watts idling, and nearly double that during load events. Just things to consider if noise/power may be an issue over time.