ABIT CLOSING doors for good..

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: nRollo
Isn't this actually good news in light of the nature of their products in more recent times? I've read some real horror stories about them in the last few years.

No, I've run more abit boards than most & contrary to what you have obviously read in the last few years abit made some very good mobos & a few average ones but I can't think of a genuinely bad one (imo the 2 nearest would be the Fatality F-I90HD & the FP-IN9 SLI but I tend to lay the blame for those mostly at the foot of the chipsets).

 

[nyker96]

man my ip35e will be outta warranty!? and i got two of these!

 

[Modelworks]

They are not totally gone, just gone from the motherboard business.
Found this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...motherboards,6715.html

Just this week, Tweaktown received word that USI would dissolve Abit entirely on 31st of December. This would mean that the expected 3-year warranty period would need to be handled by USI directly, or not at all. Fortunately, after being contacted by Hardware Info, Universal Abit sales manager Fernando Benito ensured the community that, while the company will no longer produce motherboards, it will not be closing down entirely.

?ABIT will definitely continue to manufacture products, these will not be motherboards and we have not got a 100% clear picture yet on what products will be made... Products now made by USI that are not sold to OEM's will get the ABIT branding.?

Abit claims that despite the cease in motherboard production, it won't be going anywhere. But the abit that we all know will soon become only a memory, as it is shifting focus from enthusiast hardware to consumer electronics, such as the FunFab digital photo frame that was unveiled at Computex; a change that is clearly noticeable just from looking at the company's home page
.

Also was talking with a friend who is an engineer in that area and he said they are just shifting their market to consumer products. Things like SSD based laptops, mp3 players, peripherals, etc. So away from the enthusiast market and more to stuff they could sell off the shelf at places like walmart.


This is more like they will become:
http://www.abit.com.tw/index2.html

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Diogenes2
Did anyone else run dual Celerons on a BP-6 ? That was a honey ..

Yep,
Ran dual celerons . Also ran slot 1 celerons with the pins drilled out and wires soldered to enable smp. That was one risky procedure. Still cringe at it, was using an asus board I think.

 

[Shooks]

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: Shooks
Really sucks, I loved Abit boards

Isn't this actually good news in light of the nature of their products in more recent times? I've read some real horror stories about them in the last few years.

I liked them as well back in the day, but motherbpoards are a very critical component- not where you want inconsistency.

I never had a single problem with Abit boards, and my current rig is an IP35-Pro and I love this thing. Always had good overclocking results with their boards, sad to see them go

 

[amheck]

Bummer, I liked them too. Strange timing for me.....I just found out my 11-month old IP35-E has a bad RAM slot. Was working fine for all of 2008 and then a few weeks ago stopped booting. I guess I'm going to put it in for RMA asap. It'll still boot with 2 sticks, but I guess I'd rather have all 4 of them working.

 

[jscedaz]

Originally posted by: nyker96
man my ip35e will be outta warranty!? and i got two of these!

They said they would honor the warrantys for 3 years after closing.

 

[brencat]

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: Shooks
Really sucks, I loved Abit boards

Isn't this actually good news in light of the nature of their products in more recent times? I've read some real horror stories about them in the last few years.

Actually, Abit's engineers were always top notch -- as evidenced by how well their boards overclocked. It was their Bios group, as well as customer service in the past couple years that kinda fell down.

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: brencat
as well as customer service in the past couple years that kinda fell down.

depends where you are, European service has been top notch but it did seem that North America wasn't at the same level.

 

[mxnerd]

WTF! No wonder 3 months ago when I send in IP35 and basically it was sent back with nothing touched. No doc, no explanation.
I made several phone calls and no one answered, just like a non-existing company.

It's actually good news to me. I don't have to go through a long list of vendors to search new motherboards anymore. Only Intel, Asus and Gigabyte will be on my list.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: brencat
Actually, Abit's engineers were always top notch

Wasn't one of their best engineers (or BIOS guys) snatched away by DFI?

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: brencat
Actually, Abit's engineers were always top notch

Wasn't one of their best engineers (or BIOS guys) snatched away by DFI?

That would be Oscar Wu.

RIP Abit.

 

[Puffnstuff]

It's a real shame seeing that abit has powered my best pc's over the years. Our last abit mb, the high end x38 quadgt didn't hold up like boards of the past with the lan ceasing to function at 1gb a few months after we got it and its still under warranty but never sent in. Abit led the way in bios based ocing forcing it to become mainstream and I'm grateful for it.

 

[evident]

I love my IP35-Pro. i switched from my problematic gigabyte ep35-ds3r to IP35-Pro and it's been fantastical. it sucks that there will be no bios/ driver updates to it in the future and if the thing breaks, i'm screwed.

 

[Tret]

Sucks for them. I really enjoyed their boards.

 

[conlan]

Sad day...back in the BX days, Abit was the king.

 

[nyker96]

RIP Abit!

 

[spittledip]

Very sad.. My KN8 Ultra is still working very well. I liked Abit alot.

 

[FalseChristian]

I can't believe it. I've always used Abit mobos when available starting with my Abit BH-6, (300A Celeron at 450MHz) then an Abit ST-6 Raid (Tualitin Celeron 1400MHz at 1680MHz) and then the Abit NF7-S (Athlon 2400+2.0GHz at 2.4GHz). All of them were reliable and the best for overclocking IMHO.

 

[taltamir]

i stoped caring when they went down the toilet. which was years ago. I am not surprised at all, failed companies are bound to go bankrupt, and we could tell they were failed long ago.

 

[Tequila]

This is really sad news

My first Abit board was the BP6 and I still have such fond memories of ordering the BP6 + 2 celeron 366 OC'd to 450. I think that was around '98-99? Not exactly sure.
I had just installed Win NT so being able to use both cpus for seti was pretty cool

I still have that board around somewhere collecting dust but only one cpu still alive. I should break it out and see if I can get it up and running again.

 

[idiotekniQues]

bye abit!!!

with a mere two vowels and two consonants,

you touched so many!!!!!!

 

[humanure]

sorry to see them go, had some great abit boards.

 

[M1A]

Way too many Abits boards here and only one that had a cap problem that had to be returned and only after almost a year. So much for new bios updates though..........
Now have to decide what ship to jump aboard hahah.
Sorry to see you go ABIT
many will miss you.

 

[SilverTrine]

Sad day...back in the BX days, Abit was the king.

BX6 rev 2 was the board back in the day. The features on the BIOS were unmatched. Abit was never the most reliable though and when Asus and MSI caught up in features it was all downhill for Abit.

One of their Athlon I boards I had was flawed it produced memtest errors and heavy instability with even approved sticks of memory. I know this because I kept sending them back to Abit. The third board they sent was brand new and not a refurb and it still produced memory errors and instability. Factory design flaw.

Still I'd have an Abit board every day of the week over a Soyo board those were sub-PCChips in quality.