nforce2 board - is it asking for trouble?

[Louis Munro]

Hi,
I will soon be replacing my old pc and I'm looking for advice about the motherboard I should be buying. I'd like to run both windoze (for the games) and FreeBSD on it.
Having a rather limited budget I have been looking at some boards with integrated graphics. The only one that seems decent to me is the Asus A7N8X-VM (see http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7N8X-VM&langs=01) but it uses the nforce2 chipset and an integrated Geforce4 MX GPU. 
I've read some of the posts on the list that mention people having problems whith that chipset such as no onboard ethernet support, which I'm willing to live with (I have two other PCI cards I can use for that) but some comments have me confused: should I expect more problems or will it be fine using 4.9 stable and later? Will I have AGP support, 3D acceleration under XFree86 etc? 
Or am I setting myself up for trouble down the road?


Any advice is appreciated,
Louis