This House Was Built For LAN Parties

[Demon_Skeith]

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".

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sweet house.

 

[froggyboy604]

I wonder what operating system does his computers uses since he does not state it in the post. Makes me wonder if he is using some Linux operating system, or a secret Google operating system which he uses on his computer for testing.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I doubt the guy would reveal that.

 

[froggyboy604]

I agree he won't reveal a secret operating system which Google is working on since it won't be a secret anymore.

He also does not talk about his hard drive size, speed, and brand which makes this post kind of mysterious.

He might be testing out a super fast online hard drive which can connect to a computer from anywhere in the world to play games, and run apps a web server owned by Google, or himself.

This line in the story:

"The stations all run off a network, so he doesn't have to tinker with each individually".

This could mean it runs off a super fast broadband internet since the internet is also a network. Plus, he does not state his Network speed, type (wired, wireless, fibre) and location of the network.