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Adequate hardware for Sophos home UTM?

I have an AMD64-3800+ on an MSI-7184 motherboard with ATI Radeon XPress 200 chipset and 2 Gb PC3200 Ram that I would like to build a Sophos UTM for my home network.

My home network has:
5 Win7 desktops,
3 Win7 laptops,
1 Win7 HTPC,
1 WHS backup server,
1 HDHomeRun Prime TV server for DLNA appliances ( PS3 & TV's)
4 iPhones,
1 iPad,
1 Xbox 360,
1 OOMA VOIP.

I have a max of 3-5 users at one time, normal usage is 2-3 web browsers and 1-2 gamers.  TV viewing and recording comes through cable TV system and not the internet.

My internet bandwidth is solid sustained 50Mbit download and 5 Mbit upload.

Will my proposed hardware work without creating network bottlenecks?  Do I need to run it in a VM?  It seems this forum prefers running Sophos in a VM.  

If this hardware is not sufficient, then I would probably use a Pentium G3258 on a MSI H81M-p33m motherboard with 8 Gb Ram.


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  • I would go with the pentium.  Running it inside a vm is an option and not required.  I prefer it for several reasons i have detailed before..[:)]

    Owner:  Emmanuel Technology Consulting

    http://etc-md.com

    Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner

    PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng, 

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  • I would go with the pentium.  Running it inside a vm is an option and not required.  I prefer it for several reasons i have detailed before..[:)]

    Owner:  Emmanuel Technology Consulting

    http://etc-md.com

    Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner

    PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng, 

    Other addons to follow

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