Two-Story Row House, Continued
TriGem was not stingy with the controls. Besides power-on and reset buttons, the front features various controls for audio and video playback. There is also a SYS Info button that activates certain system information in another display, including CPU speed, hard drive capacity, CPU temp, available memory and fan speed. If you don't press the button, the display changes automatically every second. One nondescript yet completely intriguing button is labeled CPU Clock . Pushing it once halves the speed of the front-side bus of the CPU. That causes the processor to run slower and hence gives off less dissipated heat. Pushing it twice lets you overclock the CPU to some extent. To do this, however, you must first activate and configure turbo mode in the BIOS. We had no problem overclocking the FSB on our test CPUs by 10 percent - without the small form-factor PCs getting any louder.
A Birdseye's view of the interior with and without board
Drives are housed in the "downstairs" compartment of the KL-I915a
