idea 2 small =1 big

[Anomic]

The question is, is it Possible to make two smaller Pc's and have them work together as one bigger Pc.

Like 50+50=100 kind of thing.

For example:

We have a budget of a $1000 and we decide to make two smaller less powerful machines

for $500 each,

Buying the same parts for both.

Will we be able to some how sync them and be just as powerful as one $1000 Pc.

We will be using the Pcs for gaming, streaming, video editing, with some general work as well.

[UGame_]

I don't know if you can, but I'd still go with a single, more powerful machine. Plus, if you've seen Linus' 2 gamers one rig, you can install 2 Operating System's on a single rig.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Well.... Yes and no. I've done it before with Raspberry Pis (6 of them), but that was for very basic mathematical tasks, not gaming or anything like that. 

Even if you did get them to work together, it would share the same issues as SLI, dual CPUs, link aggregation and so on have, where they don't scale 100%. You'd be more likely to get 150% performance, rather than the full performance of both systems combined. 

It would be a pretty cool project if you could get it working (would likely have to be done on Linux), but I wouldn't try it for a practical solution, or with $500 systems. Maybe if you were spending $100 on each system or something. 

[thekeemo]

I mean it can work for rendering dont know about other tasks

[givingtnt]

24 minutes ago, Anomic said:

The question is, is it Possible to make two smaller Pc's and have them work together as one bigger Pc.

Like 50+50=100 kind of thing.

For example:

We have a budget of a $1000 and we decide to make two smaller less powerful machines

for $500 each,

Buying the same parts for both.

Will we be able to some how sync them and be just as powerful as one $1000 Pc.

We will be using the Pcs for gaming, streaming, video editing, with some general work as well.