An engineer creates a LAN Party House with 22 gaming computers

If you’re young, you might not be familiar with the term, but many years ago, LAN parties were very popular as they were large events where gamers came together to connect to the same network and play games or do whatever they want. These events were more social than they seemed at first glance, and not only were you going to spend hours playing and downloading, but you were also meeting people. LAN parties may not be as common now that all the games are available online, but a software engineer wanted to set up Great LAN party at home and after spending a lot of money, he was able to realize his dream.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world play video games, and it is estimated that almost half of the world’s population has played them or spent minimal time playing them. This figure has increased dramatically over the years and its significant growth is mainly due to mobile phones, which a large portion of the population has access to, as well as events such as the pandemic, which has seen a significant increase in interest in gaming. If we go back to a time when games weren’t so popular,
meetings between PC players They were something memorable, tiresome and in some sense atmosphere of nostalgia.

An engineer is investing over a million dollars to create the LAN Party House, a real gaming house.

Before we had high-speed internet, computers with multi-core processors, and long before RTX GPUs capable of running ray-traced games, LAN parties were a fairly common occurrence. There were great events that continue to be celebrated in a certain way (even in Spain), but here we are talking more about an event.
LAN party at someone’s home with a fast Internet connection and free space. Across the table or several of them, those who arrived with their heavy PCs began setting them up and connecting them to the same network. Once everyone was prepared, games could be created and everything was much closer than with the current online model.

Kenton Varda, software engineer and current CTO Cloudflare Workersfelt that note of nostalgia inside me and decided to spend over a million dollars to transform his home in Austin into an impressive LAN party venue. This is a project that It cost him 3 years of worklong-term salary and
selling my old house to be able to afford it.

He has 22 computers costing about $75,000 and hosts events every two weeks in which he participates in Deep Rock Galactic and UT 2004.

Named as LAN Party HouseThe truth is that this house is the envy of every gamer. On his website we see that the house is owned by Kenton and Jade, a couple who live with their two children. In total they have 22 “slot machines”, which are essentially PC with monitor and peripheralsassuming cost approx. $75,000. Each of these computers is equipped i5-13600, 32 GB RAM and RTX 4070in addition to the other components that make them work.

The history of this project is interesting and everything is explained on their website, but in essence they bought a house
130 square meters in Palo Altoits value increased, and its sale eventually brought in a large profit. Thanks to this they were able to buy much larger home in Austin, Texaswhere he was able to build the LAN party of his dreams and, as we can see, he even has a huge terrace, his favorite place. Every weekend he organizes one of these parties and they usually play games like Deep Rock Galactic and Unreal Tournament 2004to remember the old days.