Google software engineer Kenton Varda has a pretty great house. Not because it’s all clean and new and rather large, but because it’s been built specifically with LAN parties in mind.
The house has twelve “fold-out computer stations”, with six each in two rooms (for team play!), and which normally just look like monitors placed in a wall. Move some wood panelling, though, and they transform into little PC gaming stations, each packing the following hardware:
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500
GPU: MSI N560GTX (nVidia GeForce 560)
Motherboard: MSI P67A-C43 (Intel P67 chipset)
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB DDR3-1333)
Monitor: ASUS VE278Q (27″ 1080p)
The stations all run off a network, so he doesn’t have to tinker with each individually, and even have security that can send images to his phone when he’s out of the house.
In addition to the PCs, he’s also got two big flat-screen TVs with “a selection of game consoles attached”, but people are in a PC state of mind “we usually end up streaming pro starcraft matches to these”.
Amazing.
LAN-Party optimised House [Kenton's Weekend Projects, via Reddit]
Chazz
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 6:30 PMDo want.
InformedGamer
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:40 AMNeeds better chairs, but this is definitely going in the “Want-to-have-when-I-build-a-house” list
Neo-Kaiser
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 6:38 PMHe really wants that smell in his house regularly?
Chazz
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 6:53 PMWith his income, I’m sure he can afford a decent supply of febreze or something.
Nuddy
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:03 AMhahaha too true!
Pariah
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 7:24 PMWant.
ST
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 7:36 PMall that money on a pretty cool setup, but such crappy chairs
Nyquist
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 8:55 PMAnd then he remembered he only has 5 friends.
Effluvium Boy
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 10:18 AMStackable for easy storage.
Hooray for Logic!
Boomzzilla
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 7:41 PMLAN parties, so 1990′s do modern games even support LAN?
Andy
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 7:48 PMthe good ones yes the bad ones no.
Robby
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 8:29 PMI knew skyrim was missing something…
Pariah
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 10:15 PMBeen living under a rock, I see.
chugs
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:20 AMclearly google engineers get paid some good money.
Harli
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:35 AMoh. my. god.
ChoM
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:57 AMAwesome. I always imagined myself doing something similar when I can afford to build my own house.
clint
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 10:25 AMi did do that, not as neat though. The hardest part is finding games that support lan. Too many gaming sessions on my lan are eating up too much of my internet usage…. grrr.. The classics always come out because they just work. AOE2 FTW,