Quote Originally Posted by Dedman View Post
I use my older computers as a render farm. If I'm doing a really big image with lots of CPU intensive effects I boot up a couple of computers and let them share the load (network rendering, the software shares out sections of an image to work on depending on the machines specs, pretty clever). I haven't needed to do since building this rig, but it sure helped out in the bad old days when I was messing with animation . Not sure if you can do that with sound apps. Check newegg.com for parts prices, might still be cheaper to buy from the US.

Cheers mate, I seem to remember reading an article in one of my magazines about using two computers together, I think the article was in a magazine called Computer Music, the idea was to use one computer to run the DAW and the other to do all the DSP for the plugins, something along the lines of what you're talking about in your post, yeah I reckon that is pretty clever, you get more processing power that way.