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Originally Posted by tommytgunnz  really i thought there was a way to do it i am building a computer for my truck for music and videos and to show off my graphics.....i heard you could combine two mother boards...maybe i heard wrong or misunderstood |
Yes you can, but this is highly complicated to set up but perfectly doable. In Windows this also works out very expensive because you need to buy Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition with full licensing to beable to Cluster 2 Motherboards together. This normally only takes place in a server environment not a personal computing environment. You can also set up a cluster in linux for free. Photos of a cluster of Mini-ITX motherboards can be found here -
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ this configuration is using FreeBSD and a MPICH to cluster the motherboards together. I guess if you installed a graphical front end onto FreeBSD it could be suitable for some proccesing such as GIMP etc... Cluster generally happen throigh a network as shown here.
Although if your talking about running two proccesors than you can on one board. Some require two sockets to run dual CPUs, but others just require 1 socket but need CPU boards with two CPUs on them. However the compatibility of these are unknown to me so check carefully before purchasing.