ABIT going belly up?

[bernse]

Sorry if this is a repost - did a search and couldn't find it..

LINK

I had no idea..? Possibly bankruptcy for them?:Q

 

[Sphexi]

Nnoooeees!

I love my IC7-G

 

[Nikamichi]

R.I.P. Abit

 

[StrangerGuy]

They dropped the ball hard since the NF7-S days.

 

[TwiceOver]

That sucks.

Big fan of ABIT boards.

 

[n7]

yeah this is too bad

 

[mercanucaribe]

I had an Abit go bad, and never bought another.

 

[tfinch2]

Abit > *

 

[Leper Messiah]

holy crap. Yeah, they really dropped the ball on the A64s when they plugged via instead of nVidia for their enthusiast stuff.

But 96% percent drop in sales?! OMGWTFBBQ?

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I had an Abit go bad, and never bought another.

I had one that didn't work from the beginning. Returned for an ASUS. Never bought ABIT again, been buying ASUS for 4 years now.

I know they've had some good boards, but personal experience wagers heavy in my purchasing.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

I've always been an Asus fan. Abit's boards just aren't what they used to be.

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I've always been an Asus fan. Abit's boards just aren't what they used to be.

 

[Yzzim]

I've had lousy luck with Abit boards. Had a couple crap out on me and others where various devices have stopped working (onboard sound, floppy, etc).

I remember hearing a while back that RMA of their boards took upto a couple months in some cases.

Needless to say I try to stay away from them and have used mainly Asus in my main rigs.

 

[slpaulson]

I like my current Abit board, and I've never had a bad one.

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah
holy crap. Yeah, they really dropped the ball on the A64s when they plugged via instead of nVidia for their enthusiast stuff.

But 96% percent drop in sales?! OMGWTFBBQ?

ABIT lose wif VIA

 

[Udel]

<- DFI works for me.

 

[pray4mojo]

I've never heard anything good about Abit except their NF7 boards.

 

[sash1]

meh, asus ftw!

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: pray4mojo
I've never heard anything good about Abit except their NF7 boards.

Abit has had a bunch of fantastic boards in the past, remember that they've been around longer than just the past two or three years that a lot of people have gotten into building during. I'm running an IC7-G still, that I've had for oh...almost 3 years? It runs 24/7, and the only problem I've ever had was that the northbridge fan eventually started to wear out, which I replaced with a Thermaltake blower.

As far as onboard sound/video going out, who uses those? I can see people using the audio, but most of my friends around the local area opted for a more expensive but much more fulfilling Audigy 2 or MWave board.

 

[Fish11]

ASUS rules so sorry bout their luck

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I've always been an Asus fan. Abit's boards just aren't what they used to be.

 

[daniel49]

I like abit boards no problems here

 

[Perknose]

Wow. Big blast from the past. I remember when Abit boards were the overclocker's shiznit. They were the very first with jumperless OC'ing, IIRC, and had many other firsts. Celly with a BE-6 ftw!

This sad news brings a tear to my eye.

 

[jadinolf]

Quite a surprise.

 

[Nikamichi]

Originally posted by: Koing

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I've always been an Asus fan. Abit's boards just aren't what they used to be.