Two Motherboard System?

[hitori]

Is that even possible? I'm curious because I have two old windows 98 boxes lying around. They're both old cheap systems, one is a Gateway and the other is a HP. My goal is to combine the two systems and make a decent one. I was thinking of using linux as the OS. I haven't the slightest clue of how I would fuse the two boxes.

 

[voyagerfan99]

I don't think it's possible with two different motherboards.

It probably may not even be possible even if they are both the same.

My vote is a no go.

 

[hitori]

so would two mobos equal two different computers?

 

[Kornowski]

Yeah, you can't combine them to make on system.

You're right, two MOBO's = Two computers

 

[Synesthesia]

Actually, Ive seen a two mobo system before. It was really weird, but it worked. They were two separate computers, but he somehow had them share the same resources, and wrote a program that split up the workload between the two.
Both mobo's were inside the same case.
Its pretty advanced stuff.

 

[Bob Jeffery]

Yep pretty advanced lol. Hard to do...pretty expensive too.

 

[Geoff]

It can be done, but not with consumer desktop boards AFAIK.

 

[Rothzael]

They require extra engineering to share BUSes and the like.