Geez MishY, a 450MHz AMD CPU ain't THAT bad. My wife's is a 450.
The one I'm on in my den is a 500 AMD K6-2. Of course my new 950 Duron, 7200 RPM IBM drive, 256 RAM is nice.
I think just for the heck of it I'm gonna build a 1.9GHz Athlon a few months down the road...maybe a 2 gig by then.