What happened to ABIT?

[BumbleBee]

who cares about Abit?

RIP DFI

 

[RejZoR]

I never owned a DFI mobo, but I remember they were quite highly regarded among overclockers.

 

[TheLostSwede]

You guys should try asking people that worked there at the time. I know quite a few, but they don't hang out here as far as I know.

From what I've read here, it seems only about a third of what really went on is "public" knowledge and I don't know all the details, but the main reason that Abit went bankrupt was because one of the owners took a fair chunk of money and absconded to China.
This was after the management had done some questionable investments and what not, which they were under investigation for, as mentioned. Without any money and the main owner gone, it's hard to operate a company.

I know some ex-staff are at DFI, Corsair, Fractal Design and what not. The industry isn't that big, so people move on to the next company...

USI only really bought the brand and didn't understand the market they got into. They started to make a bunch of crappy products that they slapped the Abit brand on, hence why they didn't really last long.

A miss Abit as well, they made some truly unique products and they were great to deal with.

 

[vega22]

don't both abit and dfi still exist, just not in the retail chains now?

lanparty boards defined what is cool about building pc imo. the green and yellow one with the thermalright ifx cooling is still a stand out product, possible hall of fame product, for pc enthusiast hardware.

as for others, gone but not forgotten, rip bfg.

 

[BumbleBee]

I never owned a DFI mobo, but I remember they were quite highly regarded among overclockers.

DFI is a saint that can do no wrong

 

[jboydgolfer]

i always loved that Bios splash screen "LAN PARTY" i dont know why. the last one i saw was a PC a old roommate of mine had , he asked me to look at it, and my diagnoses was retirment, and replacement. That was when he became a fellow PC junkie But iirc, i tossed that PC in the Trash wish i had saved it, but i guess if i did that with all the older systems i have "fixed" or replaced, id have a moutain of old tech.

 

[BumbleBee]

DFI UV paint

 

[sneekypeet]

Cleaned and edited the thread of the back and forth about who is right and wrong. Simply put, ABIT couldn't continue making mainstream motherboards! Who cares why, DFI was the better board anyways (OPINION)

Please keep it civil from here on out! Fair warning to everyone!

 

[notb]

Cleaned and edited the thread of the back and forth about who is right and wrong. Simply put, ABIT couldn't continue making mainstream motherboards! Who cares why, DFI was the better board anyways

I care. I've asked the question! And you've just been reported.

 

[sneekypeet]

I care. I've asked the question! And you've just been reported.

Saw it, thanks, I also edited the post I made while you were reporting it. Also you were given sound reasons as to why ABIT is not around. Because you choose not to believe them, can't help you there!
If you cannot be civil and want to try to call someone out, we are going to put our foot down every time!

 

[Ebo]

yeah, Abit in the day made some good products, so did DFI, Epox.

 

[Bill_Bright]

DFI was the better board anyways (OPINION)

I've made builds with both ABIT and DFI and never had a problem with either. As an electronics technician, I tend to be a bit anal about soldering techniques, lead terminations and some of the finer details and it always seemed DFI did a better job in those areas. And while not an indication of quality or reliability, the DFIs just were more pleasing to look at aesthetically.

I forgot all about Epox - or rather EPoX - which apparently is still around. Tyan is another you no longer hear about.

 

[dorsetknob]

Tyan is another you no longer hear about.

Still Big and with good Rep in the server/workstation World

 

[Norton]

I forgot all about Epox - or rather EPoX - which apparently is still around. Tyan is another you no longer hear about.

Soyo made some nice stuff back in the day also iirc

 

[Bill_Bright]

Still Big and with good Rep in the server/workstation World

That's true. They do still make good server boards, which reminds me of SuperMicro.

Yeah - Soyo too.

 

[WhiteNoise]

looking through some old pictures and look what I found...my old Abit KD7 board. I think I had a AMD Athlon 1GHz AXIA in there too.

 

[Bones]

Have several boards from each here.
I also have enough of them I'll never be short a board with either make and also have a working Soyo from way back too - Bought it brandnew in 2002 and it's still kicking after all these years.

 

[R-T-B]

That's true. They do still make good server boards, which reminds me of SuperMicro.

Yeah - Soyo too.

Speaking of which, SuperMicro has been dipping its toes in consumer waters lately...

 

[FYFI13]

They went bankrupt, just A Bit

 

[Solaris17]

I miss Albatron too back in the day miss you socket A

 

[vega22]

this image should be on every page imo

 

[johnnyfiive]

Speaking of DFI...

https://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/2231/station-i7

Still my favorite board of all time, the LANParty UT-T3eH8.

 

[Solaris17]

Speaking of DFI...

https://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/2231/station-i7

Still my favorite board of all time, the LANParty UT-T3eH8.

I had one of those it was my baby.

 

[yogurt_21]

Ah for a bit there EpoX and Soyo were the only board makers with purple pcbs. It was unique and fun to scheme around.

Abit you think of more in the Pentium 4/Athlon XP days Their boards were king back then.

DFI was more in the Athlon 64/X2 days prior to Conroe. Those mosfets were huge and those boards could pump more voltage through nearly everything (northbridge, southbridge, cpu, memory, etc) It was extreme and you could hit max clocks, but it was easy to fry your rig.

In the end Conroe's instantaneous 4GHZ made it difficult for DFI to set itself apart. First AMD stops being competitive and then every jim bob mobo company could hit great clocks on even lowend boards on Conroe.

I really never liked the color scheme of the Lanparty myself. I just couldn't get enough components to match.

Asus/Gigabyte were of course around this whole time but I can't help think that they survived because they could pump out more generic boards than any of the others (and they diversified their businesses)

But it does seem like the best board makers all shut up shop long ago. (that or went enterprise)

 

[qubit]

You guys should try asking people that worked there at the time. I know quite a few, but they don't hang out here as far as I know.

From what I've read here, it seems only about a third of what really went on is "public" knowledge and I don't know all the details, but the main reason that Abit went bankrupt was because one of the owners took a fair chunk of money and absconded to China.
This was after the management had done some questionable investments and what not, which they were under investigation for, as mentioned. Without any money and the main owner gone, it's hard to operate a company.

I know some ex-staff are at DFI, Corsair, Fractal Design and what not. The industry isn't that big, so people move on to the next company...

USI only really bought the brand and didn't understand the market they got into. They started to make a bunch of crappy products that they slapped the Abit brand on, hence why they didn't really last long.

A miss Abit as well, they made some truly unique products and they were great to deal with.

Yeah, I loved that brand as well and got their Guru Clock to go with a couple of their motherboards. Nice little monitoring and overclocking gadget that supported BIOS profiles. Oh and those orange motherboards...
It's disgusting how that company was run into the ground due to fraud/dishonest practices with the money. They were something special.

Simply put, ABIT couldn't continue making mainstream motherboards! Who cares why, DFI was the better board anyways (OPINION)

I remember seeing reviews of some of their boards and the overclocking options were second to none, especially for memory tuning. I don't think even Abit had as many options. I was considering buying one back in late 2011 when I got my current Sandy Bridge system, but they'd just got out of the motherboard business.