Spare CPUs

[cameronjmcphail]

Good day!

So I am very interested in CPU mining. Very focused on PTS and XPM currently. The thing is I have heaps of random CPUs lying around. Even several i7s but nothing to put them in.

What I was wondering is does anyone know of alternative way of making use of such processing power without having to invest in a motherboard?

It seems to me that there must be a way of running/testing processors that doesn't rely upon M/Bs and can be taken advantage of for mining. Its been too long since I've been in the IT industry and my best googling has simply lead to some really stupid questions and some equally stupid answers. I'm beginning to think that this is one of those questions.

Any input? Dumb dog barking up the wrong tree?

[gigo]

Hi,
Honestly, I don't see any other way around - you have to put the CPU into something that interfaces it with memory, network, I/O devices... MB were designed for that.
Best,
g

[cameronjmcphail]

Cheers gigo.

I really just wanted confirmation of that. The realisation that I can interface miniPCI-e GPUs with my motherboards made me curious to weather or not there was some way of useing CPU's in a similar fashion. It has just been toooooo long since I knew anything about how these technologies worked.

More motherboards it is!

Cheers friend.

[Mexxim]

you could probably look into the used server boards, hence fitting 2 or 4 cpu's to one mainboard. That only works if they have matching sockets, of course