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KLOSS KL-I915A - SFF With An Edge

Posted by timothy on from the smallish dept.

Kez writes "Shuttle have been synonymous with SFF for a long time now. It would take a lot to make them topple from the top spot, but that doesn't stop companies from trying. Take TriGem, with their new KLOSS KL-I915A system. The interior of the chassis is cleverly partitioned to aid cooling and installation. It has a front display which shows everything from CPU speed to which particular device failed the BIOS power-on self test (which beats a sequence of beeps or LEDs any day.) Add to that an LGA 775 motherboard, and TriGem just might be on to a winner. HEXUS.net have a review."

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  1. Re:What is it of which you speak? by yotto · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thank you for posting this, I was starting to think that I was the only one who had no freaking clue what the post was talking about.

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  2. Kloss? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Henry Kloss might have a pretty big problem with this -- I actually assumed this was a Henry Kloss designed or endorsed product until I noticed the TriGem branding, and the fact that KLOSS appears to be an arbitrary fake acronym seems like some pretty sketchy marketing to me.

  3. My nit with reviews these days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well, that was a decent overview for a review. My nit with reviews these days is that they tend to leave out some critical information; namely, the BIOS booting options.

    Does the BIOS *actually* support booting over the Ethernet and/or a USB device??? Both are now critical IMHO, especially for a serious IT environment. And for the home
    environment, where one has lots of systems. Doing installations, and customizations, by hand is just too primative.

    PXE boot is required for automated imaging (for example, via Kickstart). USB is darned useful in that regard as well. But the motherboard manufacturers just don't seem to understand this.

    The BIOS manufacturers do, to a certain extent. But all too often I've found that the mobo manufacturer will ship a stripped down version of the BIOS, which makes the board useless to me.

    So, please, if you're going to do a review, kindly include this information. It is very, very useful. Thanks.

  4. Re:Slashadvertisement? by unts · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The submitter (me) could have hidden the fact that he was from HEXUS, but what difference does it make? It's down to the slashdot staff to decide what gets posted, nobody else.

    So you don't find the article interesting... fair enough. Half of the stuff I read on slashdot I find boring, but the other half is great. You can't please everybody all of the time.

    /soapbox

  5. That unreliable? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    It has a front display which shows everything from CPU speed to which particular device failed the BIOS power-on self test

    Are these things really that unreliable that this is necessary? I mean, yes, BIOS beeps are a little cryptic, but the frequency with which they should need to be used doesn't really warrant the expense of putting anything more friendly.