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CrowhammerCrowhammer Registered User regular
edited April 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
How do I EASILY frankenstein one computer to another so they run as one unit?

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  • ZeonZeon Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Ummm... you need to be more specific. Do you want to network them together so they share computing power, or do you want to take parts from one and put them in the other?

    If you want to network them together and share resources, you'll have to look into a linux or BSD distro that allows that.

    If you want to take parts from one and put them in the other, take out the parts you want, remove whats in those slots on the other computer and put them in. Fairly straight forward.

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  • CrowhammerCrowhammer Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    looking to network to share computing power. What's BSD?

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  • ZeonZeon Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Why do you want to do that? Are you running like massive scientific calculations or something? Cus you wont be able to play games or do anything "useful" with those.

    http://superuser.com/questions/72226/linux-live-cd-for-distributed-computing-projects

    Just google for "distributed computing distro" and following the links. Theres really too much to go over here.

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited April 2011
    All computers are not the same. There's no universal "computer thingy" that you can accomplish all computer tasks universally. You need to post the specifications of your computers (hardware and OS), what resources you have at your disposal (are you handy with a soldering iron? Can you purchase equipment within a certain budget?), and what your final goal is (if it's "so I can play better games", you are probably barking up the wrong tree).

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  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Yeah, why do you want to do this and what makes you think you can do it easily? Are you helping SETI out or something? Otherwise there's no point.

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Even if there were an easy way to do this (which there isn't), I don't think there's much consumer-level software that could take advantage of such a setup.

    If you just want to play better games, or just have a better-performing PC, this is absolutely not the way to go.

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