It will be sad news if they can't get their financial troubles straightened out. I've owned 5 Abit boards over the years - BX6, BP6, SE6, BD7 and a KV8. The first 4 are all still working today. I had great experiences with the BX6 and the BP6. The SE6 and the BD7 were fairly solid but unexciting products. The KV8 was complete garbage unfortunately. It never worked quite right (unstable, even with 3 different PS). I ended up giving it away for free to a friend who had all the parts to build a system except CPU and MB. He bought an A64 and ended up building a pretty nice rig around it. Of course, it would still crash randomly on him from time to time and the board finally gave up the ghost 3-4 months later. He RMA-ed through me and got another KV8, which died on him after another 3 months or so. At that point, he just went out and got an Asus board and ended up having no further problems. Either ABIT's QC has been slipping or their decision to go with a lot of VIA chipsets is hurting their boards.