ABIT going belly up?

[eits]

Originally posted by: bernse
ABIT going belly up?

answer: yup.

shame, too. i liked their boards better than asus'.... until lately. abit's just kinda disappeared off the face of the earth along with america's reasons for going to war.

any motherboard where you need a floppy drive to update the bios is a piece of shyt in my book.

 

[thesurge]

i remember the athlon thunderbird days when abit was "teh sickness"

 

[The Linuxator]

To be honest I LOVED my ABIT AN7 it was just amazing, and an excellent deal for the money $ 85 ! When I sold my Athlon XP system and upgraded to A64 I looked at their boards and found $ 200 + price tag with all this Fatal1ty hype BS I said to hell with them, and bought me a top of the line VIA based Soltek for $ 90 - and I am loving it!!
I wish the AN7 / NF7 days would come back, but obviously not.

 

[Brutuskend]

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

I had two go bad.

Before that I was a BIG ABIT fan, now....

 

[dighn]

too bad
i've always liked abit. in fact my current rig is using an NF7-S

 

[samgau]

Wow... Guess I've been a bit out of the loop... currently have an nf7-s v2 which seems to be running fine (recent build 3mos) ... but my old rig... bh6 w/ PIII 750 is still running strong, going on 8 years!!!! first built in nov 98 w/ cel300 @450 ... sad to see the day come with no more Abit...

 

[neutralizer]

My IS7 is dying .

 

[LouPoir]

That's not good news -

 

[ribbon13]

Originally posted by: bR
...and all ATI flagship cards.

That's Sapphire.

Bad batch of cheap Chinese capacitors leading to premature deaths of 20 different models of motherboards.
Accounting scandals.
Best lead designer left for DFI.

Hmm. This wasn't predictable at all.

 

[Kenazo]

I tried Abit out a few years ago. I've built two Abit based computers, both have given issues and one died completely. Now I've switched to DFI or Asus, depending on my customer's needs. I'm not surprised that Abit is going down hill, but 96% drop in sales is ludicrious. That can hardly be.

Did they lose a huge OEM contract or something? Who builds MOBO's for Dell, HP, etc?

 

[compudog]

I have an Abit BX-6 rev 2 in my son's computer. It gets used everyday. Never had a problem with it. It is a shame because ABIT tried to innovate and were an overclocker's delight for many board models.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: 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.

There were other jumperless boards before ABIT. When I worked at QDI, we had a jumperless board months before they did, but when we went to Comdex they had a big poster proclaiming themselves to be the inventors of jumperless motherboards.

 

[dexvx]

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

Then you must be new. The Abit BX6 rev1 was revolutionary back in the day. The best Abit boards ever, IMO, were the slot1 Pentium 2/3 boards. After that, they just started a long slide.

Originally posted by: pray4mojo
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.

Whereas you could've bought an Asus P4P800 board (similar to the IC7). Asus has updated it to fit Pentium-M's via a socket, something Abit will never do.

 

[Remy XO]

FATAL1TY!

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: Remy XO
FATAL1TY!

Ha Ha!

 

[misterj]

still using my bp6 that was previously watercooled with dual celeries. suffered a leak and scorched the agp slot a little, but still works great at the office. circa 1997?

 

[Ramma2]

Abit BX6 2.0 with a Celeron 300a... what a combo!

 

[TomKazansky]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
They dropped the ball hard since the NF7-S days.

DFI used to be a part of ABIT. In fact it was the only reason why ABIT existed.

 

[Zap]

Sorry guys, it's my fault. Whenever I purchase a motherboard the manufacturer has a 50% chance of stopping motherboard production. Shuttle announced they would stop doing boards after I bought one (those $25 865PE boards from Mwave). Now Abit's going down after I bought a KN8. Oh yeah, bought a Chaintech and there were rumors...

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
There were other jumperless boards before ABIT. When I worked at QDI, we had a jumperless board months before they did, but when we went to Comdex they had a big poster proclaiming themselves to be the inventors of jumperless motherboards.

LOL, I remember that. I was at Comdex and visited the QDI booth and saw their display. I would press an arrow key and the guy working the booth would change the setting back, so I would press an arrow key again. :laugh:

 

[Gulzakar]

I don't know... the A8n32, a8n-sli, all by Asus, have received pretty crappy reveiws from the community. I have (had, went athlon) and AW8-Max that ran VERY well, no problems at all... a lovely setup. I liked it better than the P5WD2.

 

[Xyclone]

:shocked:

 

[compuwiz1]

Abshit finally going belly up? Who'd a thunk it!! They must not have as many fanboys as they used to. They have been crappy unstable boards for a long time. Back in the day, when I was in the pretested CPU business, many chips that would not dance on the Abit board, danced beautifully on others.