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Dual computer setup with 2 full motherboards in one case

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Posted · Original PosterOP

I want to build a dual computer setup in one case that has two full motherboards but I can't find a case or anyone on YouTube that has done it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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You obviously havent searched very long or hard... Here are but just 2 examples... 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, fshawn85 said:

I want to build a dual computer setup in one case that has two full motherboards but I can't find a case or anyone on YouTube that has done it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

For what purpose?


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I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

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You mean two full ATX motherboards? most of the options on the market only support a full ATX and a mini ITX

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Posted · Original PosterOP
22 hours ago, Streetguru said:

For what purpose?


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I want a high end gaming computer and I need powerful work computer 

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4 minutes ago, fshawn85 said:

I want a high end gaming computer and I need powerful work computer 

You can have that with just one build though depending of what you do with your work computer.

Don't forget to quote (arrow bottom left of the message) or use name tag (@name) for us to see your answer.

 

 

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My computer

CPU : I7-8700k  4,7GHz 1,275v

CPU cooler : Noctua NH-U14S

GPU : Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64

Motherboard : Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra

RAM : 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3466 MHz CL16

SSD : Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2,5" + Sabrent Rocket 1TB M.2

HDD : Seagate BarraCuda 4TB 3,5" 5400RPM

Case : Phanteks ECLIPSE P600S Black 

PSU : Corsair HX Platinum 850W

Others : Noctua NF-F12 PWM chromax.black.swap x3 top exhaust

Noctua NF-A14 PWM chromax.black.swap x3 front intake, x1 rear exhaust, x1 on the CPU cooler

Noctua NA-HC6 chromax.black on the CPU cooler

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Wife Computer

CPU : R5 3600 4,2GHz 1,33v

CPU cooler : Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition

GPU : Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 8GB

Motherboard : MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX

RAM : 16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport AT 3200MHz CL16

SSD : Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250 GB 2,5"

HDD : Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM

Case : Fractal Design Define C TG

PSU : Corsair TXM 550W

 

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Posted · Original PosterOP
15 minutes ago, Plouffe said:

You can have that with just one build though depending of what you do with your work computer.

I do video editing and CGI, I would also like to steam when I'm gaming 

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So the Intel version :

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $484.99 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler $88.99 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard Gigabyte Z390 AORUS ULTRA ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $240.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $339.99 @ Newegg
Storage Sabrent Rocket 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $249.98 @ Amazon
Storage Sabrent Rocket 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $249.98 @ Amazon
Storage Intel 660p Series 2.048 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $204.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $255.79 @ Amazon
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB AORUS XTREME Video Card $1299.99 @ Amazon
Case Cooler Master MasterCase H500M ATX Mid Tower Case $229.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $105.99 @ Best Buy
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $3751.67
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-23 04:23 EDT-0400  

 

And the AMD one :

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor $499.99 @ Best Buy
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler $88.99 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard Gigabyte X570 AORUS ULTRA ATX AM4 Motherboard $299.89 @ OutletPC
Memory G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $339.99 @ Newegg
Storage Sabrent Rocket 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $249.98 @ Amazon
Storage Sabrent Rocket 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $249.98 @ Amazon
Storage Intel 660p Series 2.048 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $204.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $255.79 @ Amazon
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB AORUS XTREME Video Card $1299.99 @ Amazon
Case Cooler Master MasterCase H500M ATX Mid Tower Case $229.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $105.99 @ Best Buy
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $3855.57
  Mail-in rebates -$30.00
  Total $3825.57
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-23 04:23 EDT-0400  

 

No dual setup but should be way overkill for gaming. And it will handle video editing and CGI in 4k.

Don't forget to quote (arrow bottom left of the message) or use name tag (@name) for us to see your answer.

 

 

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My computer

CPU : I7-8700k  4,7GHz 1,275v

CPU cooler : Noctua NH-U14S

GPU : Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64

Motherboard : Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra

RAM : 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3466 MHz CL16

SSD : Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2,5" + Sabrent Rocket 1TB M.2

HDD : Seagate BarraCuda 4TB 3,5" 5400RPM

Case : Phanteks ECLIPSE P600S Black 

PSU : Corsair HX Platinum 850W

Others : Noctua NF-F12 PWM chromax.black.swap x3 top exhaust

Noctua NF-A14 PWM chromax.black.swap x3 front intake, x1 rear exhaust, x1 on the CPU cooler

Noctua NA-HC6 chromax.black on the CPU cooler

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Wife Computer

CPU : R5 3600 4,2GHz 1,33v

CPU cooler : Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition

GPU : Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 8GB

Motherboard : MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX

RAM : 16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport AT 3200MHz CL16

SSD : Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250 GB 2,5"

HDD : Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM

Case : Fractal Design Define C TG

PSU : Corsair TXM 550W

 

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22 minutes ago, fshawn85 said:

I do video editing and CGI, I would also like to steam when I'm gaming 

What software? Does it use multiple GPUs?

What's your budget/country for everything?

What's your monitor set up?

You're going to want 2 difference towers, A for noise, B for separating the heat generating components.

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

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What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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Posted · Original PosterOP
8 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

What software? Does it use multiple GPUs?

What's your budget/country for everything?

What's your monitor set up?

You're going to want 2 difference towers, A for noise, B for separating the heat generating components.

I'm using bryce and lightwave 3D, I don't have anything right now but I wanted to take my work home. 

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20 minutes ago, Plouffe said:

So the Intel version :

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $484.99 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler $88.99 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard Gigabyte Z390 AORUS ULTRA ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $240.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $339.99 @ Newegg
Storage Sabrent Rocket 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $249.98 @ Amazon
Storage Sabrent Rocket 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $249.98 @ Amazon
Storage Intel 660p Series 2.048 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $204.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $255.79 @ Amazon
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB AORUS XTREME Video Card $1299.99 @ Amazon
Case Cooler Master MasterCase H500M ATX Mid Tower Case $229.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $105.99 @ Best Buy
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $3751.67
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-23 04:23 EDT-0400  

 

And the AMD one :

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor $499.99 @ Best Buy
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler $88.99 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard Gigabyte X570 AORUS ULTRA ATX AM4 Motherboard $299.89 @ OutletPC
Memory G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $339.99 @ Newegg
Storage Sabrent Rocket 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $249.98 @ Amazon
Storage Sabrent Rocket 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $249.98 @ Amazon
Storage Intel 660p Series 2.048 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $204.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Enterprise Capacity 10 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $255.79 @ Amazon
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB AORUS XTREME Video Card $1299.99 @ Amazon
Case Cooler Master MasterCase H500M ATX Mid Tower Case $229.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $105.99 @ Best Buy
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $3855.57
  Mail-in rebates -$30.00
  Total $3825.57
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-23 04:23 EDT-0400  

 

No dual setup but should be way overkill for gaming. And it will handle video editing and CGI in 4k.

Thanks that looks doable

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Posted · Original PosterOP
1 minute ago, fshawn85 said:

I'm using bryce and lightwave 3D, I don't have anything right now but I wanted to take my work home. 

I'm in the US, I don't want to go over 10k

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14 minutes ago, fshawn85 said:

bryce and lightwave 3D

Bryce 7 is available to both Mac users and Windows users. Animators with a Mac will need at least 700 MHz (1 GHz or more recommended)


How old are those software suites? I can't find any info on weather they support modern open CL or Cuda even, it looks like they are entirely CPU bound, and I don't know how many CPU cores they need.
 

Is that really all you need to run? What hardware is in your work PC? Why not like...use blender or something?

The streaming PC doesn't need to be more than like $1200-1400 for an R7 3700X + RX 5700


It appears that lightwave supports a ton of CPU cores at least, Threadripper 3000 is coming out very soon
https://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php/153673-How-many-CPU-cores-can-Lightwave-use

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

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What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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