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Connecting Two Motherboards Together


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sure, General may be on crack, but he may be on to something else...

 

Many motherboards only support up to 3GB of memory, 400MHz BUS, ATA133 or SATA, and many other things that ONE mobo can do...

 

Imagine getting a second body. You either double what you have or relieve some of the stress on what you are doing...

 

Of course, there's always duct tape to connect two motherboards... or a Beuwolf system, but that's way over my head...

 

General, if you figure something out, share everything you learn!! awesome potential but fairly unrealistic..

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You would need to do a LOT of modifications.

 

Remember, your motherboard has the BIOS, IDE controllers, AGP/PCI controllers, math co-processor, North bridge controller, south bridge controller, etc that normally talks to the CPU. - If you were to attempt to connect 2 motherboards together, you'd first need a way for the CPU to communicate with EACH component on the 2nd board... not to mention getting the CPU to recognize it's all there. Then you'd need a way to power the 2nd board, which would mean another PSU would be needed, and you would have to wire the two PSUs so they would both turn on when the power button was pressed.

 

I'm sure it could be done with enough time, but it'd be more trouble IMO than it'd be worth.

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You would need to do a LOT of modifications.

 

Remember, your motherboard has the BIOS, IDE controllers, AGP/PCI controllers, math co-processor, North bridge controller, south bridge controller, etc that normally talks to the CPU. - If you were to attempt to connect 2 motherboards together, you'd first need a way for the CPU to communicate with EACH component on the 2nd board... not to mention getting the CPU to recognize it's all there. Then you'd need a way to power the 2nd board, which would mean another PSU would be needed, and you would have to wire the two PSUs so they would both turn on when the power button was pressed.

 

I'm sure it could be done with enough time, but it'd be more trouble IMO than it'd be worth.

the think the main idea was to get the dual cpu effect...buying a dual cpu m/b would be so much easier.

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