| Thursday, August 28 2008 |
It is confirmed that abit, maker of high-end and gaming motherboards will exit the business of motherboards. The production is to stop by the end of this year. HEXUS.channel has confirmed this as fact from sources close to South East Asian distributors, all of which will be notified by their abit sales contacts from today onwards.
The company will continue to sell motherboards till the end of the year and will honour RMA and warranties for three years subsequently. This first made news as rumours back in May, and back then abit responded that they had no intentions of leaving the market, apparently because they weren't intended to move out back then.
Source: Hexus.channel
The company will continue to sell motherboards till the end of the year and will honour RMA and warranties for three years subsequently. This first made news as rumours back in May, and back then abit responded that they had no intentions of leaving the market, apparently because they weren't intended to move out back then.
Source: Hexus.channel
User comments
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.
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).
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-9sorry. Via boards don't OC much like Nvidia ones.
I had a uGuru KV-8 Pro. It was...It did not overclock for shit.
never bought another abit.
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
i hope the still gona sell that Abit Ix58-MAX
by: suraswamiTrue that
sorry. Via boards don't OC much like Nvidia ones.
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.
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
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