Dual Machines

Dystopialbond · 02-08-2009, 03:33 PM

Not entirely sure if this is the proper thread but ill give it a try.

The idea I am having is to get two sepearte micro-atx systems and get them to operate together under 1 monitor and keyboad+mouse. Like dual cores and dual channel ram work only two seprate computers to lighten the load of the other.

Computers will have be micro-atx 2gigs ram (1066 dual channel) and AMD Phenom X2's for cores, rest is hopefully irrelevant to what im asking.

The question i have is how do you get the two computers to share eachothers load? rather than one just being an overpriced hard-drive carrier and the other struggling to hold its weight?

My first thoughts were just two OS's (xp or vista mostlikely xp) and just network them together but then they wouldn't share active loads like if i was playing crysis on one the other would just idle. Anyone have and advise for this idea?

**linderman** · 02-08-2009, 04:32 PM

yeah ............your idea wont work ......... at least not like you have expained it ....

although that is what the "mission" of the quad core is; now if software could only harness the power of the quad ........... like photoshop and auto cad do !

anyway ........... IMHO youre thinking of this the hard way .............. cryiss can be run on max settings with a good high end dual core cpu and high end video card ?

02-08-2009, 03:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dystopialbond Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Dual Machines Not entirely sure if this is the proper thread but ill give it a try. The idea I am having is to get two sepearte micro-atx systems and get them to operate together under 1 monitor and keyboad+mouse. Like dual cores and dual channel ram work only two seprate computers to lighten the load of the other. Computers will have be micro-atx 2gigs ram (1066 dual channel) and AMD Phenom X2's for cores, rest is hopefully irrelevant to what im asking. The question i have is how do you get the two computers to share eachothers load? rather than one just being an overpriced hard-drive carrier and the other struggling to hold its weight? My first thoughts were just two OS's (xp or vista mostlikely xp) and just network them together but then they wouldn't share active loads like if i was playing crysis on one the other would just idle. Anyone have and advise for this idea? Last edited by Dystopialbond; 02-08-2009 at 03:34 PM.

02-08-2009, 04:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,432 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Dual Machines yeah ............your idea wont work ......... at least not like you have expained it .... although that is what the "mission" of the quad core is; now if software could only harness the power of the quad ........... like photoshop and auto cad do ! anyway ........... IMHO youre thinking of this the hard way .............. cryiss can be run on max settings with a good high end dual core cpu and high end video card ? __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial