[NCLUG] cheap upgrades

[Michael Dwyer]

Daniel Herrington wrote:
> I've got a Celeron 400 system with 128MB of PC133 SDRAM running Redhat
> 7.3.  I'm finding it a little slower than I'd like for mpeg video
> encoding (it takes about 9 hours to encode 30 minutes for burning to
> SVCD).  Does anyone have any recommendations for a cheap (less than
> $200) upgrade to something around a P4 or Athlon 1GHz?  Or are there
> barebones systems that I should look into instead of upgrading this one?

Although I wouldn't bet the farm on it, you might be able to get a 
significant power boost just by switching from the Celeron system to a 
full Pentium.  I'd find out what the fastest processor your motherboard 
can handle, and go see how much they are at a somewhere like 
Directron.com.  Newegg.com has also been spoken well of, here...