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Is it Possible to use Two Motherboards?

Discussion in 'Overclocking, Cooling and Modding' started by lehsstudent, Jan 22, 2007.

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  1. lehsstudent Newcomer, in training

    Ok can you connect two motherboards and have 2 cpus 1 hdd 1fdd 1 vga and so on. this (in theory) would allow you to split the information in half and give each mobo have the numbers to crunch and increase speed.
    Please tell me if this is possible.
  2. raybay TechSpot Addict

    Why don't you read a lot more on theory and on hard technology regarding motherboards and systems?
  3. Computer~freak~ Newcomer, in training

    i did some searching and it is inpossible to have two motherboards working together but you can have two computers in a custom case you would but it would have to be a big case you would need two everything even two power buttons but it is still inpossible to make two motherboards work together
  4. agi_shi Newcomer, in training

    Think of it this way.

    - Mothers can have more than 1 child.
    - A child can't have more than 1 mother.

    (Child being the processor ;) )
  5. Jesse_hz Newcomer, in training

    What asi_shi is saying is that if you want two or more processors in the same system, you will need a motherboard that supports multiple CPUs (2 CPU slots).
  6. MetalX TechSpot Chancellor

    Indeed. Why would you want to have 2 motherboards anyway? Where would you mount them? On the wall?
  7. SNGX1275 TechSpot Special Forces

    Not for Windows. And you can't do it the way you described at all. But technically you could connect 2 systems together and have the workload distributed between them equally.
  8. gavilan Newcomer, in training

    Unless you live in Canada, Vermont or Massachusetts
  9. HPCE_Larry Newcomer, in training

    If your making a behemoth cluster thats sort of what your doing. You would just need to use a linux interface and write a custom program that made use of the different processors. For all practical purposes, its not possible.
  10. twite TechSpot Paladin

    Or if you were artificially inseminated, adopted, or the son of a conjoined female twin.
  11. Above471 Newcomer, in training

    Load Balancing?

    Is it not possible to use Load Balancing Techniques to share the load? The techniques used in server farms? Obviously it would be, but im more curious about load balancing an application, such as resource hungry CADs, Graphic Utilities, and Graphic intense Video Games.
  12. SNGX1275 TechSpot Special Forces

    Thats pretty much your answer. I don't know it well enough to go into much more detail, but you can cluster computers together with certain operating systems/environments, but its something you only find in places where lots of computing power is needed and dorm rooms of computer science nerds.
  13. Tedster Techspot old timer.....

    you're using the wrong terms.... refer to them as servers/masters and slave processors.
  14. Intel-FREAKIUM Newcomer, in training

    dude, just get a quad-core dou like i got
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