Not sure if I can post links, but there is a neat way to turn several Raspberry Pi's into a super-computer. If you chained several of them together, you could potentially create a piece of hardware capbable of adequately running EQ for cheap. Here's the link to ZDNet, but a google search will locate several of them.
http://www.zdnet.com/build-your-own-...ds-7000015831/