Building a complete slave computer

Gibrril

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Hi all,

Over the recent years I've always built my own computers instead of buying them as a finished package. Yet every time I upgraded my system, I fell victim to having to reinstall an awful lot of software. (every time I needed a new motherboard e.g....)
So I was wondering: is it possible to hook up a seperate computer as a total slave to an already operating pc? The idea is that I can keep using the pc that I currently have, but hook it up to a second unit to use the processor, RAM memory, Graphics Card etc of that second machine.
That way I can upgrade without having to reïnstall.
Is this possible?

Thanks a lot,
Gibrril
 

gaymer1984

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In the way you describe, no. It's possible to offload some of the things you use one machine for onto another, load-balancing effectively, but the kind of technology that would be required to implement true master-slave scenarios would also necessitate you having a home server situation.

This is done in some large organisations where application delivery is done over the network. But realistically, in order to implement this in a home situation, your talking mucho $$$$

For the future, if you get tired of reinstalling, once you've established a hardware setup - why don't you try a partition image? Paragon is a great little piece of software that saves and restores entire images of partitions (especially useful for getting you back to that first reinstall point quickly).

 
You should be able to swap stuff like the GPU without reinstalling anything but drivers, and storage etc.

Motherboard you basically have to reinstall windows anyway - the drivers will be completely different.

Having a blank system image is nice, but only really useful if you've got multiple systems on the same model board.
 

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