Question Two Motherboards one pc?

[C_type.23]

I know you're first reaction is no, absolutely not you noob. But hear me out. I know you cant have two motherboards using one CPU. That's not what I'm asking. Can you have two separate motherboards (each with their own cpu) powering one computer? It sounds like a stupid question, but think about it.

 

[CountMike]

It would be like two computers working together as one and that's hardly practical. Making a computer/rendering farm requires special hardware and OS.
With CPUs with so many cores and threads you can make it to run many separate programs at same time, displaying on many monitors.

 

[C_type.23]

Well, I'm asking because people do sometimes use two computers, they just network them and have them spread the computing power evenly between them. I just want to skip this step. Say I have only one functioning computer, but two that turn on and everything but I cant get them to work. Theres no way to simply add on a motherboard and make the two (or more) motherboards function as one? No rearranging of wires or nothing?

 

[C_type.23]

Nothing?

 

[Gam3r01]

No, what you want to do is not possible.
Closest you can get with consumer hardware is a dual PC system in one case.

 

[CountMike]

Well, I'm asking because people do sometimes use two computers, they just network them and have them spread the computing power evenly between them. I just want to skip this step. Say I have only one functioning computer, but two that turn on and everything but I cant get them to work. Theres no way to simply add on a motherboard and make the two (or more) motherboards function as one? No rearranging of wires or nothing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

Parallel computing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

https://computer.howstuffworks.com/parallel-processing.htm
As you can see, wiring is least of your problems.

 

[R4DIO4CT1VE]

Well yes, but probably not in the way you want. The only consumer level setup like that is when people stream using a different PC than the one they're gaming on.

Servers, data centers, and other large computational setups do what you are interested in doing kinda, but these setups are complex and expensive. You would be better off selling the PC parts and buying a computer with more cores/ram/stronger gpu.

 

[jsmithepa]

but think about it.

No need to think. Not any novel idea.

U want two distinct Mobo and somehow MERGED them, and have them automatically distribute the work load.

The industry offers you multi-core CPUs, basically many processors on one CPU die. Previously, u can still get them, 2 CPU mounted on one Mobo.

There are specialized parallel discrete processors setups, but these are industrial, custom, don't ask if u don't have usd$20 million.