This might be crazy...

[crissmichaels]

I'm trying to find out if there's any way of running the motherboard of one computer as a slave of a second one. I have two identical computers (both of them Gateway DX420S), and am currently using both for music recording, mixing, and mastering. Both have 8 SATA ports on the mobo, and both can accept up to 4GB of RAM. Also, they both are running a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU.

One problem with my current setup, though. Each computer has enough power to run either the program I use for recording and mixing, or the program for mastering. They can't run them both at the same time (I usually keep the mix program open in case it doesn't quite sound right once mastered).

Is there any way at all of running both of them in parallel?

 

[Matt1970]

No. What program are you running that won't record and master in the same session?

 

[KenJackson]

What operating system are you running? I think some Linux distros offer clustering, whereby two or more computers act as one.

But I'm surprised that one PC can't keep up with processing multiple tasks at audio speed.

 

[Cerb]

No, you can't.

However, what are the specs of the computers? IE, CPU, RAM, and HDD (actual model number for CPU and HDD, not merely type/speed/size!). It's probably not worth upgrading them much, but the initial models seemed to be E6300 and 512MB DDR2, with some unknown HDD.

 

[mannox]

no and you def dont want to try doing it