[Xen-users] AM2 Motherboard Hardware Recommendations

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Hi All,

I've recently persuaded one of my colleagues to buy my old Athlon XP 3000+ 
system that I use for running XEN.  (Sucker! :-))  I'd like to replace it with 
an AM2 system so that I can do some experimentation with fully virtualised 
systems (Windows 2003, OpenBSD, etc.)  Has anyone got any hardware 
recommendations for AM2 motherboards that they've used successfully with Xen?  
I'm going to pair it with a 3800+ X2 as they've plummetted in price since 
Intel announced their Core 2 Duo processors.  Hurrah for competition! :-)

Also, what's the performance on the forcedeth network drivers for the NV5 
chipset like?  Can you get anywhere near gigabit speeds?  I saw some benches a 
few weeks ago that put the broadcom chips as the best performing network 
chipsets under Linux.  However, I've not seen any Am2 motherboards with 
onboard broadcom network controllers.

Cheers,

Steve.

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