Can you link motherboards together

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Who are the certified experts? The motherboard is what ties all the pieces of a computer together. It hosts system buses, peripheral-hardware interfaces, and so on. Simplifying a little, today's hardware isn't designed in such a way that it can be shared between multiple, independent systems running on the hardware simultaneously.

There existed hardware add-ons for early personal computers, like the Z SoftCard for Apple II or the Sidecar for the Amiga , but these add-ons were basically whole computers of their own which tied into the graphics and storage of the host system. On the Apple II this was easy as it was a single-tasking design, and on the Amiga it took specific programming not entirely unlike whole-system virtualization today.

So while technically the answer is "yes, with caveats", in practice the answer is "no". You will need to duplicate so many components that you effectively end up with two separate computers, possibly sharing a case if you have one custom made for your setup. That makes it rather pointless for most people, and thus no market exists so at least insofar as I know nobody has spent the time and money to try to do it. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Is it possible to run 2 different motherboards in parallel? Asked 6 years, 5 months ago. Active 6 years, 5 months ago.

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