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Title: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: VoX on July 13, 2008, 04:35:08 AM

I'm getting 20 PC's or so in the next few days and I'm going to set up a LAN Room in my house. I'm using SmartLaunch which I've payed for and set up already, I would check out the trial for this program as it is amazing! I'm making a custom theme for the client PC too.

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: robin1989 on July 13, 2008, 05:22:49 AM

wow that would cost £555 for 20 pcs in the uk. where you getting your money and arnt you like 13 or something

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: VoX on July 13, 2008, 05:27:08 AM

Quote from: robin1989 on July 13, 2008, 05:22:49 AM

wow that would cost £555 for 20 pcs in the uk. where you getting your money and arnt you like 13 or something

The PC's aren't top of the line, I'm getting them free of charge. They are out of lease and where going to get thrown out so I asked for them and got them. I plan to upgrade them a bit after though

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: robin1989 on July 13, 2008, 05:28:36 AM

yeh but £555 on software

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: VoX on July 13, 2008, 05:34:00 AM

Software is taken care off.... ARRRR!!!!!!!  I'm not leasing the computers, they are out of lease and are where going to be thrown out.

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: H-Sauce on July 13, 2008, 07:10:02 PM

sounds sweet. but just one thing. whos gonna go on em. i mean yoou gonna have loadsa m8s round or what lol. damn, watch that company for more out of lease comps, i want one lol.

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: budgray19 on July 14, 2008, 02:00:43 AM

i hope u have a bunch of fans in that room cause its gonna get hot in tehre
when u upgrade them

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: VoX on July 14, 2008, 02:21:49 AM

Fans too I guess, Depends how hot it gets. I'm thinking of testing it all out on my birthday party, which is on the first of August.

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: ryan0 on July 14, 2008, 03:45:08 AM

ur gunna have to register it as a business and pay tax on it and stuff or u'll get busted by the taxman

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: VoX on July 14, 2008, 05:03:05 AM

It is going to be free! Its really to satisfy me geeky needs and a way to play with my friends too

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: PspKicks316 on July 14, 2008, 05:16:21 AM

How exactly do you plan on playing good games like CoD4,Crysis, etc. on not so good hand-me-down computers?

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: budgray19 on July 14, 2008, 08:51:47 AM

and if all else fails he can recycle the pc's
theres valable metals and what not in the pc's
i could see him recycleing and getting 700 to 1 k

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: TW1NKY on July 14, 2008, 09:22:14 AM

Good luck on your LAN room, if it is set up well it could be great fun.

I got 6 computers from a friend but I can't do anything with them since I don't have spare monitors. :huh:

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: VoX on July 16, 2008, 01:20:41 AM

I've been thinking about it and I've decided in stead of saving up money to buy new components on them, sell 10 them and use the money to buy new components on the others. I've already got enough buyers and will have enough money to make them work great

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: PspKicks316 on July 16, 2008, 04:14:49 AM

That's pretty smart. What kind of computers are they?

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: VoX on July 16, 2008, 06:22:50 AM

I've got some more info on them, they are Acer's, 2.6 or so Ghz, 2GB ram and the GPU is in the Geforce 7 series.

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: PspKicks316 on July 16, 2008, 06:33:30 AM

Wow, that's not that bad! 20 of them too, damn.

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: Reaper on July 16, 2008, 05:55:19 PM

You should definitely do folding@home in your free time, also LOL @ your electricity, I hope that room is phase 3  :hifive:

Title: Re: Starting my own LAN Room/Cafe
Post by: VoX on July 16, 2008, 11:04:20 PM

They will hardly all be on.... maybe. Electricity shouldn't be a problem