Should You Put TWO CPUs In Your PC?

Why aren't dual-CPU setups more common?

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[morgan]

You can put as many as you like but if your board only takes one they are just going to rattle around.

[RayMak]

It's like having two wives in one house

[dgreatll]

It's always "Two CPUs in one Board"
It's never "Two Boards in one CPU"

[Andrecio]

Next project: build 2 entire computers in a single tower case and make them work together

[guillaumejoop]

The fact that it's called a MOTHERboard makes the child fighting analogy so much better

[TiagoMorbusSa]

It WAS long ago that single-core was common.
You're just old, Linus.
We all are.

[FaTeWRLD]

Hey, you should collab with Linus Tech Tips!

[Prophetli]

Back in 2001 I've bought a dual CPU system (MSI 694D Pro Dual Socket-370 Apollo Pro133A ATX, 2* Pentium III 800MHz), which was an absolute beast at the time. I was running Multiple Game Servers at a LAN-Event, listening to Winamp while gaming Counter Strike at perfect framerates. PC just didn't want to slow down a bit.

[baggarwal]

Instructions unclear, thermalpasted 2 CPUs together

[billraty]

<3 Adding a 13th subwoofer to your car couldn't make your neighbors more upset than they already are. LOL!

[bambinone]

Ahh, this takes me back to the Abit BP6 dual Celeron system I had in college. My flatmates and I used it as a server for file sharing, Quake/TF game servers, etc. Good times!

[yoyofargo]

"it wasn't that long ago that just single core cpus were the norm"

Buddy that was over a decade and a half ago.

[AspectStudio]

I always cram two CPU's in my motherboard whether it likes it or not... Sometimes more.

[ja]

Linus: I'm glad that you asked..

No linus, at this point you pop up every time i scroll down youtube and grace me knowledge I don't even know i need.

[varixis]

POV: trying to talk to the salesperson at the computer section 0:00

[mini-_]

This feels like a "Two cooks running the kitchen" scenario.

[drabberfrog]

Just duct tape the second CPU to the one you're actually using and use it as a heat sink.

[jewlouds]

The main benefit of two CPUs is the increased RAM that you can install, as well as potentially more PCIe lanes depending on the chipset.

[ordinosaurs]

Back in the early 2k, I was rocking a dual Super sparc Sun workstation, and while the speed of each core was ridiculous, CPU cache and SMP combined with a much faster I/O bus made for a wonderfully smooth obsolyte machine to work on.

[iliasiosifidis]

"Can't make your neighbors more upset than they already are "
:D
Just loved it