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Is it Possible to use Two Motherboards?

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Old 01-22-2007
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Is it Possible to use Two Motherboards?

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.
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Old 01-22-2007
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Why don't you read a lot more on theory and on hard technology regarding motherboards and systems?
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Old 01-22-2007
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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
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Old 01-22-2007
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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 )
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Old 01-22-2007
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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).
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Old 01-23-2007
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Indeed. Why would you want to have 2 motherboards anyway? Where would you mount them? On the wall?
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Old 01-23-2007
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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.
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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 )
Unless you live in Canada, Vermont or Massachusetts
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Old 01-23-2007
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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.
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Old 01-23-2007
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Unless you live in Canada, Vermont or Massachusetts
Or if you were artificially inseminated, adopted, or the son of a conjoined female twin.
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Old 10-10-2007
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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.
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Old 10-10-2007
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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.
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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.
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.

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Old 10-13-2007
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you're using the wrong terms.... refer to them as servers/masters and slave processors.
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Old 10-22-2007
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dude, just get a quad-core dou like i got
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