Who doesn't dream of a room in their house, spacious and perfectly equipped with everything you need to enjoy video games? The reality is that most of us have to settle for modest rooms in which to lie down and play, but that was not the idea Kenton Varda and Jade Wang had in mind.
The American couple moved to Austin, Texas, in 2019 so they could work closer to their positions at Cloudflare, but a plan popped into their heads. Between 2021 and 2023, they began to shape an additional construction to their house that was designed by Richard Varda, Father Kenton. What is its functionality? Host a gigantic LAN party where there are no limits for video games.
The story, revealed by The Vergereports that up to 22 high-end PCs, kilometers of wiring and a hidden track to play Dance Dance Revolution It has been the result of all the work. Each team has a Gigabyte Windforce RTX 4070, 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5600 RAM and an Intel Core i5 13600KF CPU, so there is no problem when it comes to performing with any title.
Although the couple did not want to reveal the exact figure, the truth is that they have let it slip that it is around seven figures, so we are talking about practically a budget of 1,000,000 dollars. You can see the entire place from top to bottom with plenty of photographs and imagine what happens there, since the guests mainly play Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Overwatch and, especially, Deep Rock Galactic.
All computers are connected remotely in their own air-conditioned room, allowing each installation to be done once to be distributed to each PC. Varda and Wang estimate that The complete hardware cost $75,000. and the furniture, the same. It is not the first time that Kenton has attempted a project of these characteristics, since in Palo Alto, California, he did the same with a 130-square-meter property, but finally sold it because he could not integrate it with the rest of the house.
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