GNS3 Box Help

So I decided to slap together a dedicated box for my GNS3 lab. ubuntu and a bunch of physical NICs.

I am looking for direction on a cheap board and NICs to buy. From the looks of it it's just cheaper to buy some used dual port NICs. But I discovered my A+ knowledge is lagging. I am forgetting how the keying works on PCI.

Say I snagged this network card
Intel Dual NIC E139761 PCI Network Card 711269-006 PCI | eBay

would it work in this motherboard?
ECS Web Site

They keying is visually off, right? And 64bit PCI is out of the question on desktop motherboards, right? Servers only?

Any recommendations would be great. (plus a good link to catch me up on PCI!)

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Daniel333

Nevermind, felt stupid just for asking the PCI thing. Figured it out.

Still, any motherboard/NIC recommendations would be appriciated.

MickQ

Not sure about NICs, but Asus motherboards have always worked beautifully for me.

cleveoh

If want to go cheap get a couple of 5 port usb pci cards and D-Link USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet DUB-E100 adapters. You can get the cards for under $10 and you can usually get the adapters for cheap on Ebay, I picked up a lot of 10 adapters for $20.