Back in 1998, a group of my friends and I all built "Celeron 300A Dual CPU" boxes, to, among other things, play Starcraft under WINE. At the time, with a littl

Back in 1998, a group of my friends and I all built "Celeron 300A Dual CPU" boxes, to, among other things, play Starcraft under WINE. At the time, with a little bit of PCB modification, you could modify the relatively inexpensive 300A CPUs ($150 each IIRC), and get them to run in dual socket boards at 450MHz. I recall the similar CPU rated for 450MHz dual socket being $500 or $1000 each. Windows, at the time, had no ability to run on multi-processor machines, where Linux had pretty good support for it already. So one could run StarCraft under WINE under Linux, spread out some different tasks like graphics from the body of the game engine, and run the game significantly faster under Linux than under Windows.