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by princeduderg

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Ok i have 2 dimension 2400's and i was wondering if i could use the processors from both of in one of them or is it possible to use two motherboards and run one operating system

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by jamesrl

While Dell did and does make some desktops with dual CPUs, its fairly rare, and they have to use a chipset which supports dual CPUs.

More than ten years ago I used a Dell at work that used a Pentium Pro processor, and it would accomadate 2 CPUs. They did this by using a low end server chipset. Similarly my current Dell desktop (precision 470) can run 2 Xeon processors.

But your system and the vast majority of motherboards cant and wont. And I don't know a way to run the same OS across 2 Mbs either.

James

by maniacman

You'll be left with one machine that has both CPUs' running, but you'll effective be leaving the second machine without a CPU, so use it for spare parts. Regarding running one OS across two machines, I have yet to see anything like this done as there is currently no way to bridge two motherboards to create a single bus. If you can figure out how to do this and it works, you should patent it and become a multi billionaire, but I'm sure the PC manufacturers have thought of it and realized it can't be done using current technology.

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