Blue Iris imo is a better surveillance software than Surveillance station from Synology, much more tweaking and less expensive if you run multiple camaras, but Synology is easier to setup and use, the only thing lacking imo is hardware on Synlogy...
I'm not completely sure, but the motherboard might not boot if no GPU / iGPU is present to pass the the bios check, i would crosscheck this to avoid needing to use your GPU, personally i would prefer to buy an intel cpu with iGPU, not that much...