[dannychuckle]

some top end software can utilise distributed PCs to speed up encoding (like Think does!). You're better off getting a dual CPU machine to be honest though, assuming your encoding software can make use of two CPUs. Linking systems using Ethernet isn't particularly practical for most applications as the delay in waiting for data to travel between PCs is a big bottleneck.

If you want to do it for fun, have a look at Beowulf tho - but you're gonna have to learn to use Linux instead of Windows so you'd probably want to have another PC for Windows (I don't think dual-booting would be practical for that).

In the mean time, are you running FaD?

HTH
Danny