External Appearance
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That front view gives most of the game away in terms of integration and implementation, if you look closely. The exhaust port for the CPU cooler is clearly visible and you can see by looking at the bottom, where there's a stealthed 5.25" drive bay and a drop down port and bay cover at the bottom, that TriGem don't place the drives over the mainboard area like Shuttle do. The CPU cooler's exhaust port also tells you that there's no ICE-style cooler in the TriGem either. I'll show you the cooler shortly.
A close up of the exhaust port reveals a warning not to cover it up.
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If I were to show you the other side you'd see the same cutout holes for airflow, one for the top section of the chassis' internals, one for the bottom.
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The rear of the unit shows you the connectivity options. You've got jacks for connecting to the CODEC driven by the HD Audio controller, serial and VGA stacked on top of each other, parallel, S/PDIF optical input and output ports, three USB2.0 HighSpeed ports and a powered FireWire400 port, Gigabit Ethernet port and PS/2 for mouse and keyboard. The S/PDIF pairing and VGA output are the notable items and I'll discuss those on the specification page. You can also see the outlets for the PSU's fan and cutouts for air to flow in the drive area.
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Dropping down the front port cover on the bottom of the chassis shows you another unpowered FireWire400 port and two more USB2.0 ports, along with the cover for the external 3.5" bay (which you can see removed in that picture and closed here). To the right side of that grouping is the microphone input and headphone jack ports.
Larger than a G-series XPC, it's more comparable in dimension to a P-series XPC or something recent from Soltek. Not too big is what I'm trying to convey. Smaller isn't always better remember. I've skipped talk of the obviously AV-component-inspired main front panel for a separate page that it certainly deserves. Read on. But before you do so, let me give you fair warning that the page is very image heavy. I apologise to our readers on a narrowband connection, but you really need plenty of pictures to see what the KLOSS is like in action.
