For those who have an old clucker sitting around that is nearly forgotten, why not try a simple upgrade to get you into the latter 20th century? OnePC.net takes a look at the Evergreen Spectra 400 CPU Upgrade, and basically it takes your old Pentium based system and makes it a AMD K6-2 400. Go see if it's worth the trouble. here's a snip:
"So, you wanna upgrade that old Pentium-based computer? The Spectra 400, by Evergreen Technologies, allows you to upgrade a Socket 5 or Socket 7-based computer to an AMD K6-2 400MHz processor. But using something like the Spectra 400 to upgrade just the CPU has its own downsides, too."