Freeman's Box
 

Hey whats up, it's T77!

I have owned my Tempest for about 3 years now and it has come a long way from a stock case. I have been a huge fan of Valve's Half-Life story since 1998 and I have always wanted to build a rig in honor of Gordon Freeman. Tell me what ya think?


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This is where I dork out when I'm not bmx'ing:)
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Mods I have performed:

Cable management, painted interior case satin black/Orange, sound dampening on base and side panel, cut holes in motherboard tray for the 8pin power connector, backplate and another hole behind drive bay, cut front and back fan grills out for better airflow, cut hole on bottom so I could flip the psu, modded white cathode kit to orange color, replaced the blue leds from front bezel/hdd status light to orange leds, Soldered orange leds in the 2 front AC. Ryan fans, added H.L.2 decals,

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Do you see the face?;)
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I wrapped a transparent orange adhesive film around each cathode.
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wow dude that looks crazy!

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Brother, I think it's a thing of beauty, you should be a proud builder 4 sure :thumbsup:


Cept for the thumbprints on the gpu's ;)

Thank you punx


Yes I am very proud of my work!

lol! I was hoping nobody would have noticed that, thanks kal.:blush:

Dude! I had that desk....

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Your is very prettied up. Not comparing... just showing I had that desk too and made the most out of it :) (bottom section was for storage drives. PSUs. HDDs and ODDs. Top section was for mobo obviously.

My 2nd desk mod :)

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lol! I modded my desk as well, I cut the last 7 or so inches off the right side so it would fit next to my main desk in another room. Your desk mod is much more impressive though.:thumbsup:

No way homey, yours is more aesthetically pleasing fo sho.

Mine was just an ancient extension of being frustrated on being confined by cases. That was an age old athlon XP rig lol

Would like to see your mod though? Mine was separated from the wall because of a PCI wireless card.

All I did was cut it shorter, here is an older pic where you can compare it to yours.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...ot/deskmod.jpg

Nice looking build. You really pulled off the orange theme nice.

Excellent build, man.

I have a tempest case, they are fun to build in! :thumbsup:

Man this is some sweet build mate. ;)

Thank you for all of your comments, I really appreciate it!:D

sweet system bro!

As a HUGE Half-Life fanboy, can't say enuf good stuff about that case dude ... absolutely awesome :thumbsup:

Still waiting for Chapter three to come out ... I'm also totally in love with Alex :D

yeah dude!
i got like at least 3 copies of every Half Life games on steam lol:laughing:

Haha that's awesome! Hey any of my fellow HL fans happen to have the original Half-Life 1 Box and/or cd?

Nice work man :thumbsup:

Diggin the HL2 theme :clapping:

pretty sure I got 1/2 life 1, but don't think I'd be willin to part with it :P

sorry dude