Combine PC's for more speed?

dhphoto · 25 Jan 2017 at 13:53

I have two i5 HP Desktops, identical in every way except I have upgraded the processor on one to an i7-2400. Both have 8 gig of RAM.

Is there any way of combining the power of these two computers to give more performance?

I cannot think of any way of doing this but thought it was worth asking.

David

wedrum · 25 Jan 2017 at 13:54

haha excellent

hornetstinger · 25 Jan 2017 at 13:55

Stick them together with glue.

Biz.Kid09 · 25 Jan 2017 at 13:55

It's not possible, what kind of performance benefits are you looking for?

StarShock · 25 Jan 2017 at 14:03

only really practical thing I can think of would be if you wanted to stream some games on twitch, you could stick a capture card in one. and use one to play games on and the other to run the stream. But no, you can't combine them.

ZXSpectrum · 25 Jan 2017 at 14:38

The only way to combine performance would be to set up something like a render farm/cluster.

SC0TTRS · 25 Jan 2017 at 14:44

dhphoto said:
I have two i5 HP Desktops, identical in every way except I have upgraded the processor on one to an i7-2400. Both have 8 gig of RAM.

Is there any way of combining the power of these two computers to give more performance?

I cannot think of any way of doing this but thought it was worth asking.

David

Not with the these two desktop's unfortunately, but people have been doing it with Raspberry Pi's for a while now.

DONOHUE07 · 25 Jan 2017 at 14:54

Wish it was!

But it's not

Skiddley · 25 Jan 2017 at 15:28

It is totally possible, it's just dependent upon the activity you wish to perform, and whether it's technically feasible to parallelise it.

The question the OP raises is somewhat open-ended.

dhphoto · 25 Jan 2017 at 16:13

Skiddley said:
It is totally possible, it's just dependent upon the activity you wish to perform, and whether it's technically feasible to parallelise it.

The question the OP raises is somewhat open-ended.

I am looking for a performance increase to use Photoshop and Lightroom, I don't ever game.

SoundsGood · 25 Jan 2017 at 16:19

Yep sell one and use the money to upgrade the other

IceWind · 26 Jan 2017 at 10:10

you could do a small distributed network that offloads tasks to the other PC to perform tasks for video rendering etc... but to be honest you would be best flogging them both and getting yourself a single beefy system rather than mess around doing that.

dhphoto · 26 Jan 2017 at 15:13

IceWind said:
you could do a small distributed network that offloads tasks to the other PC to perform tasks for video rendering etc... but to be honest you would be best flogging them both and getting yourself a single beefy system rather than mess around doing that.

Thanks, thought so

Jae-So · 26 Jan 2017 at 22:10

SoundsGood said:
Yep sell one and use the money to upgrade the other

I was gonna say this lol.

Legend · 26 Jan 2017 at 22:50

Don't be daft, you need another 4 PC's of comparable power, then you can join them together and they will be an almighty unstoppable force! Like this basically...

stewski · 26 Jan 2017 at 22:54

Legend said:
Don't be daft, you need another 4 PC's of comparable power, then you can join them together and they will be an almighty unstoppable force! Like this basically...

Love it.

dhphoto · 27 Jan 2017 at 14:16

That is exactly what I need

foster grant · 27 Jan 2017 at 14:31

2Pcs together

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18766995

Marcoloves360 · 29 Jan 2017 at 16:33

This is the best one I heard in ages ahah

edscdk · 29 Jan 2017 at 16:34

wedrum said:
haha excellent

twist OP is running esxi on one pc with 5 servers and the 2nd server is running as windows, so he could convert them both to esxi and have 3 servers on each!