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DFI Mashes Two Systems into One, Rolls out Hybrid Motherboard

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Wouldn't this be the same thing as running a virtual machine... just not so... virtual?
 
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hat said:
Wouldn't this be the same thing as running a virtual machine... just not so... virtual?
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not really. you cant shut down a host and leave a VM running, for example.
 
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wahdangun said:
but MS always say that oem license was tied with motherboard and they never say SYSTEM, so by the logic you just need ONE license for ONE motherboard despite it have TWO system
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Nope. It comes down to the HAL (hardware abstraction layer). Clearly, with a different chipset, processor, BIOS, etc. the HAL is entirely different... identical in software terms to an independent machine.

No way would MS let you use one license on both ends of this.
 
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hat said:
Wouldn't this be the same thing as running a virtual machine... just not so... virtual?
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Not at all.

When your only running the atom part its only 30w used.

so you can leave the atom part running all the time downloading your bits and bobs, and just power up the 775 bit for gaming and video editing etc.

One of these would be awesome for me but way to expensive at the moment, hopefully this sort of thing becomes mainstream.
 
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i would like this board to replace my gaming rig and atom server and put it all into one case.

my main problems with this board is i would use the atom cpu for data storage and server dutys and the 775 chip for a main pc.

the main problem with this motherboard is that there is a lack of bandwidth between the 2 computers gigabit is just not enough! a pci-e link would be ideal with 250mb bi directional bandwidth you could setup raid on the atom and use iscsi to connect to it from the 775 machine then you would have a raid array running on an (almost) fully independent storage system that would be imunne to crashes or corruption on the main computer.


they should have put a modern socket and chipset instead of the 775 p45 combination. i5 would be the best combination for this as it only needs 2 chips cpu and southbridge.
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Gb is plenty in most cases. Most file transfers over single hard drives don't saturate Gb to begin with. Not until you get into crazy fast storage setups, or multiple, simultaneous access does Gb become a bottleneck.
 
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pantherx12 said:
Not at all.

When your only running the atom part its only 30w used.

so you can leave the atom part running all the time downloading your bits and bobs, and just power up the 775 bit for gaming and video editing etc.

One of these would be awesome for me but way to expensive at the moment, hopefully this sort of thing becomes mainstream.
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i hope so too - its like an advanced version of the laptops where hte video card turns off and runs off a crappy low end intel onboard, to save power.
 
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