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Any dual-nic SBC should be fine. My roommate & I run it on a i3 dual-nic small machine, but that's almost overpowered. prior to that I ran it on a vm on proxmox, worked fine mostly, just a bit of a headache setting up the networking initially.
If you're buying a PC for OPNsense or pfSense, look for one with Intel NICs. Realtek NICs tend to be unreliable.