Many Thanks to pagalms for sending this in.

Hmm, never really cared too much for Abit motherboards. Although I love their Airpace wireless card!

was about to submit this

abit, just give me a final bios

I'll miss Abit, but haven't had one since my AS8 i865pe board. It is still a great performer...if they would've had a better BIOS team, I think they would've held on for another few months! I'll miss seeing them compete or trying to!

:toast:

I remember they were prominent in the socket 478 days. Shame to see a good mobo maker hit the dust

by: [I.R.A]_FBi;950958

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abit, just give me a final bios

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Yes please!

Wait but all abit produce are motherboards? Where are they heading now?

This was announced a while back. There were rumors about the "big three" in early 2007. ASUS and Gigabyte are next.

I remember several articles right here on TPU on how ASUS is planning slowly to abandon the motherboard market and jump onto the notebook and miniPC/SSF market. EeePC and subsequent desktop versions of EeePC were step one.

Nothing to worry about though, since you can expect the likes of Biostar and similar to fill the vacum.

A have a friend that will buy no other board but Abit. He swears they never break. He will be pissed about this.

by: AddSub;950982

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This was announced a while back. There were rumors about the "big three" in early 2007. ASUS and Gigabyte are next.

I remember several articles right here on TPU on how ASUS is planning slowly to abandon the motherboard market and jump onto the notebook and miniPC/SSF market. EeePC and subsequent desktop versions of EeePC were step one.

Nothing to worry about though, since you can expect the likes of Biostar and similar to fill the vacum.

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Then we'll be left with shit for boards.

Biostar and ECS have turned up good boards in the last few months, DFI expanded from the LANparty LT, UT series to the more affordable and awesome DK (dark) series. Who can forget BloodIron?

Does this mean the Fatal1ty mobos are leaving too? They were the ultimate in performance!
:laugh:

by: CrAsHnBuRnXp;950983

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A have a friend that will buy no other board but Abit. He swears they never break. He will be pissed about this.

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I've only had 2 ABit mobos but both gave me no issue's cannot say about the 1st one as it was like 7 or so years ago but neither have broken down on me.

Shame as i always considered getting a new one each time i build a system for my self.

Abit have always been a good mobo maker, they are just overpriced.

I had the abit digidice SFF....was such a good little machine!

gutted ,ive had 5 Abit boards in total over the last few years ,im running 2 atm on 2 of my 3 PC's :(

The best motherboards I've ever had was the Abit BE6 and NF7-S 2.0. But well, thing's haven't been so well the last few years though.. On the other hand, other brands have picked themselves up a bit. Like Gigabyte.

Could anyone know if J&W will take abit techs & specs? They're MB looks very similar to some abit models.. that's just my impression..

i wouldnt Be Surprised if the Subdivide from USI.

also looks like abit is relocating
"August 25, 2008 - Universal ABIT is moving their Headquarters to a new prime location. The abit Headquarters will move right across the new Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall, where Computex as well as other high tech events take place all around the year. "

Oh well Gigabyte are the motherboard kings, I have ha plenty of Asus MBs in my time and have 2 now, but there bios releases suck, I have only ever owned one abit board in my life, cant say there was anything wrong with it, but the market is only small copmpared to the Mobile pc market these days. The desktop pc is a dying breed.

I miss my NF7. Coupled with a Barton 2500+.

That was a sweet old time

I HIGHLY doubt Abit is going anywhere. In the article cited, it said something along the lines of the company making high end motherboards, which is semi-true, but most of Abit's boards are M-Atx and low cost boards, cheaper than most Gigabyte boards actually. I think this is more pure speculation seeing how there is no press release confirming this directly from Abit. Someone quits their job, ok, so someone else is hired, DUH! It's a way of life in business and retail. EVERYONE is expendable. :wtf:

abit haven't confirmed this yet, so I don't know how this can be taken as "fact". However, things don't look great, as they've been pretty slow to market with P45 and all AMD boards.

If they do cease motherboard production, it will suck, as they are my favourite current manufacturer. My previous favourite (Epox) has also disappeared, so it's a double whammy. I really don't like the looks or layout of Asus and Gigabyte boards, so I guess I'll look to Biostar in the future.

wasnt there an earlier post here about Abit refuting claims that it was exiting the motherboard market???

the whole story started off as a rumour & Abit denied that it was leaving & now theyve U-turned & announced they are leaving the market??????

Possibility splitting from USI, that or selling their stuff to another Board Maker, IP35-Pro and XE were rockin, the P45 looks to the the same way and the X48 variant being awesome, AMD side there is a 750 board but no AMD chipsets.

i have had a frew abit boards, all of them was good, until my AT8 crapped out, so now am a gigabyte user :rolleyes:

Never owned Abit, but it's still surprising since they have been around for a long time. Ever since i had a Gigabyte nforce 2 board i hated Gigabyte because the nforce 2 board didn't post, so i never bought from then again.

Never had a problem with the Abit I had or the ones I've worked with. I think they just don't keep up with the high end feature sets so I haven't had one in a while.

I had a uGuru KV-8 Pro. It was...It did not overclock for shit.

never bought another abit.

man sad day for the geek world

im going giabyte for my next board

Sad to see Abit going away. I have many Abit boards, when they work they just keep working. They OC mad. 90% are gems and work for ever. But if it breaks their RMA process sucks ass. Worst in any industry standard. They will ship a refurb board as replacement. And 100% sure they haven't tested it and its just a repacked one and its broken. I have tried many unopend refurb board from Frys and they are 100% broken, either won't boot or have lots of issues.

In that way I am happy they go out of business for not caring about customers.

I am not a fan of Asus too. Gigabyte is ok, Biostar and ECS rock. ECS have never failed me and I will stick with them. ECS has 3 yrs warranty on all boards and if needed replacement (RMA) they send you newly manufactured board (if they don't have they will manufacture special order or will upgrade you).

by: GSG-9;951566

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I had a uGuru KV-8 Pro. It was...It did not overclock for shit.

never bought another abit.

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sorry. Via boards don't OC much like Nvidia ones.


NF7 and NF8 are my favourites. And now I found a new gem AN52 does easily 300FSB which is high for AM2 standards:D

Loved my abit nf7-s ver 2.0 board

NOOO why abit
i hope the still gona sell that Abit Ix58-MAX

by: suraswami;951706

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sorry. Via boards don't OC much like Nvidia ones.

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True that

Ah...my cheap ass Abit Ip35E is doing pretty well with my q6600 at 3.6Ghz. So long Abit.

Boards have definitely gotten better over the years, and Abit's are no exceptions. Their older 440BX boards were great overclockers but were loaded with PCI IRQ issues if you added certain cards together (SCSI/IDE/Sound). Then there was the whole bad capacitors issue, and I saw about every Abit board from 1999-2002 develop bad caps, including two of mine and several by friends. Abit wasn't alone on being a buyer of these lowest bidder bad formula caps though.

I don't know how much I will miss them. I've had good boards from lots of companies. I think Abit gets a bit more of a good rep than they may deserve, frankly. Abit boards were only really special back during the P2/P3 days when they came up with SoftMenu for jumper free overclocking. That was truly awesome stuff back then. Abit BH6 especially. And as I said, those were also their worst times at the same time! ;) I do still have my Abit BF6 though (that's why I remember the IRQ issues, I still use the board!). Hardware was so much flakier back then than it is today for the most part.

My Abit BH6 still running today,, with a 1gig cpu, I stoped buying there boards when they started using HighPoint for the IDE controllers. I think it's good there ending.

[QUOTE=Frick;951048]The best motherboards I've ever had was the Abit BE6 and NF7-S 2.0. But well, thing's haven't been so well the last few years though.. On the other hand, other brands have picked themselves up a bit. Like Gigabyte.[/QUOT

look to my mobo you find it is a nf-m2s , worst mobo i get , im suffer from it

on old times nothing better than abit , but now i see the abit technology can not go far and can not force other brand's , today best mobo's come with high overclock which is abit have it before but not now , and see abit maybe dying when im look to abit x38 , and the hard point i see i the second slot of pci-e run at 4x only which is other mobo's at least run 8x and the other is 16x