Goodbye abit???

[chuckm]

Rumors have been circulating, this may mean it's true;
http://arstechnica.com/journal...g-motherboard-business

 

[nyker96]

that's too bad :[ I love my ip35-e.

 

[toadeater]

No IP45 Pro then I guess?

http://www.3dnews.ru/_imgdata/img/2008/03/11/76891.jpg

 

[JPB]

Ya, that is kind of sad. Back in the day I bought a Abit AN8. Great board. Still going strong in my dad's PC after 5 years or so.

 

[Sylvanas]

Well I could see this was coming. A shame really, my IP35-E is pretty good still.

 

[nerp]

I loved EpoX. They're gone.

I got this IP35-E, one of the notable boards of a generation. Abit seems to be dying.

Hmm. Who should I put out of business next?

 

[Falloutboy]

shame to see them go if true. always been the company I look at first when building a new rig. although Biostar as of late has become my number 2, they are cranking out some very quality boards at a good price

 

[n7]

*waves*

 

[Capt Caveman]

Noes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pugh]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
shame to see them go if true. always been the company I look at first when building a new rig. although Biostar as of late has become my number 2, they are cranking out some very quality boards at a good price

agreed

 

[FireTech]

Old story re-hashed. Previous discussion here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2212778&enterthread=y

It does seem the abit forum is currently dead but the abit websites are still up and running.

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: FireTech


It does seem the abit forum is currently dead but the abit websites are still up and running.

you are using an old url (abit-usa.com)?
try http://forum.uabit.com/

 

[FireTech]

Cheers Heidfirst, when did it change?
I've been logging in nightly to that 'old' url for months without a problem.

 

[Heidfirst]

they have been running side by side for iirc at least a year now.
However, last weekend there were some changes (possibly due to server crashes or possibly they just felt that they no longer needed both). At any rate since then forum.uabit.com has been working but forum.abit-usa.com not.

 

[wizzard0003]

Originally posted by: Heidfirst
they have been running side by side for iirc at least a year now.
However, last weekend there were some changes (possibly due to server crashes or possibly they just felt that they no longer needed both). At any rate since then forum.uabit.com has been working but forum.abit-usa.com not.

Also, the email system is broken on the new address...

You won't get any notification emails and new members can't activate
their accounts because they never get the activation email...

Hopefully they will fix that soon...

\\//_

 

[chuckm]

Just another sign of where they're headed?

 

[gplracer]

Every epox I ever bought or built for someone else (20+) eventually died with bad caps. I never bought another one.

 

[Zapper48]

That's a shame as my IP35 Pro has been absolutely flawless.Can't say the same for DFI though.

 

[OCChronic]

Abit used to be great during the mighty AMD AthlonXP days but they haven't put out anything since that impressed me. I've seen a lot of their mainboards fail due to bad caps and the perfromance always lagged slightly behind the likes of ASUS and DFI because their BIOSES were less polished. My Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD looked like an awesomne board but the ATI chipset had horrible chipset/memory latency & bandwidth performance and it died after 9 weeks. I RMA'd it and got another brand new replacement which also died within 3 months. Both went into standby mode and never returned. Since then, I've been running with Gigabyte boards without a hitch and I'll never buy an Abit board again.

DFI has dropped the ball lately too because their Core 2 boards lacked important BIOS settings like Trd and FSB strap settings, even on X38/X48 chipsets which are supposed to be the performance kings of the INTEL lineup.

 

[MrCrispy]

I'd buy an Abit over Asus/GB/MSI anyday. They make rock solid boards and have always been reliable in my experience and those of my friends.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: nerp
I loved EpoX. They're gone.

I got this IP35-E, one of the notable boards of a generation. Abit seems to be dying.

Hmm. Who should I put out of business next?

Buy a Nehalem. (evil grin)

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: OCChronic

DFI has dropped the ball lately too because their Core 2 boards lacked important BIOS settings like Trd and FSB strap settings, even on X38/X48 chipsets which are supposed to be the performance kings of the INTEL lineup.

Your kidding me?!?

I dropped $500+ on a pair of DFI X48 boards, and only now am I hearing all of the bad things about them. I haven't built the systems yet, otherwise I guess I would find out myself. :|

 

[OCChronic]

DFI and Abit boards are usually the tweakers dream/nightmare with their insane amount of memory/voltage/etc. settings in their BIOSes. Unfortuantely, this time around, they left out important settings like 'Trd'/'Performance Level' & 'FSB STRAP' in their BIOSes, even on top end OC'ing models.

Also, because you can push these baords really hard, they fail early because the components aren't up to the strain, like an ASUS or Gigabyte board. I'm not a fan-boy of any one company but right now they have my attention and buying dollars.

If you like extreme overclocking, go with a Foxconn 'BLACK OPS' mainboard, which Anandtech reviewed and it can COLD boot at -110C. =) I own 1 Gigabyte x38 and 1 Gigabyte G33 board and both work really well for overclocking but I think ASUS has it nailed down as far as layout, cooling, stability and BIOS implementation.

 

[Skott]

I'm kinda surprised they lasted this long after their financial problems in the early 2000s. Since then they have had some good mobos and some bad ones. They werent quite as good as they once were overall IMO. The market is so competitive and profit margins smaller now than before that once a company starts to stumble like ABIT has its hard to get back up and stay up. A shame too. Less competition and choice now.

 

[wizzard0003]

Possibly some good news about uabit...

http://forum.uabit.com/showthread.php?t=141366

This, if true, could be a good thing...

\\//_

Edit:
Looks like they've also released an IX48 board in
Europe and they are instock and on the shelves...

http://forum.uabit.com/showthread.php?t=141365

Hope they've got a 790GX/SB750 lined up for release
soon...