Say Goodbye to Abit

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:11 pm

Wow, closing their doors for good. I haven't bought an Abit board in years, but I never had a problem with any either.

http://www.techpowerup.com/79191/Shutte ... er_31.html

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/10853/exc ... index.html

blackworx · Post by **blackworx** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:07 am

Was gonna post this in the "so what happened in 2008" thread. It's a shame, as they were a very innovative company in their time. Their uGuru hardware control was light years ahead of the competition and an absolute boon for silencers.

I've heard that many of their former engineers had already gone to Biostar. Looking forward to some equally innovative stuff from them in the future.

SlaveToSilence · Post by **SlaveToSilence** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:44 am

That sucks

i love Abit & their uGuru

Riffer · Post by **Riffer** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:51 am

They lost a lot of ground with the exploding capacitors and never really recovered their full status after that.

Despite that, my current build is my first ever that didn't at least start with as Abit board.

SlaveToSilence · Post by **SlaveToSilence** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:55 am

so who's next best after abit for silencing motherboards with fan control as good as the almighty uguru?

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:19 am

Biostar kicks serious arse. The only place they are behind right now is AMD boards with 4 PCI-E x16 slots, otherwise high quality and OC with good prices.

I still boot my Abit BH-6 once in a while to get some info on the HD.

Monkeh16 · Post by **Monkeh16** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:31 am

I'll miss Abit. Only used them once, for my latest machine, but.. Superb board.

Time to look for cheap Abit boards on sale.. I fancy an IX48.

blackworx · Post by **blackworx** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:45 pm

aristide1 wrote:Biostar kicks serious arse. The only place they are behind right now is AMD boards with 4 PCI-E x16 slots, otherwise high quality and OC with good prices.

That's very good to hear, as I really didn't want to end up with an Asus or Gigabyte next time round. I know Ace-A-Rue over on xtremesystems was championing Biostar, but I haven't checked up in a while. Perhaps it's time to go catch up.

Riffer · Post by **Riffer** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:16 pm

Monkeh16 wrote:I'll miss Abit. Only used them once, for my latest machine, but.. Superb board.

Time to look for cheap Abit boards on sale.. I fancy an IX48.

Did they actually release that board? I know there were some samples, but I never actually saw a production board.

edit - I just did a search and found it for sale in Australia!

Monkeh16 · Post by **Monkeh16** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:25 pm

Riffer wrote:
Monkeh16 wrote:I'll miss Abit. Only used them once, for my latest machine, but.. Superb board.

Time to look for cheap Abit boards on sale.. I fancy an IX48.
Did they actually release that board? I know there were some samples, but I never actually saw a production board.

edit - I just did a search and found it for sale in Australia!

IX48 GT3? Yeah, it's out there, and fairly expensive. DDR3 too.

frank2003 · Post by **frank2003** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:27 pm

It's indeed bad news to see Abit finally bowing out. But didn't they disappear for a while and was reincarnated as a different company?

I knew Abit back in the old days of P-III dually boards. Their VP6 was the board against which all other duallies were judged.

IRRC they were the only company daring (or should I say, crazy) enough to create an mATX board that married ATI's 690G chipset with the Intel's CPU.

blackworx · Post by **blackworx** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:45 pm

frank2003 wrote:It's indeed bad news to see Abit finally bowing out. But didn't they disappear for a while and was reincarnated as a different company?

Indeed they did, and for a while "Universal Abit" seemed to be firmly back in the game, but things started to slip again, and even though they were coming out with top notch hardware it didn't seem like they could keep up with Asus/Gigabyte for depth and breadth of product lines and there were long waits for BIOS updates, which many in the OC community complained bitterly about. I lost count of the number of "I'm never buying Abit again" posts. Then the whole buyout thing happened and the news grew steadily more ominous from there on in

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jhhoffma · Post by **jhhoffma** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:56 pm

My first build back in 1998 was with an Abit BX6 (440BX P2 board). It was rock solid and will still be in use in a couple weeks when I rebuild a machine for my mother using a 650MHz Coppermine P3. It was still penty fast enough for XP when I upgraded my brother from it to an AthlonXP system a year ago.

It's amazing what you can do with old systems if you choose your OS and software carefully.

~El~Jefe~ · Post by **~El~Jefe~** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:03 am

The only boards that lasted forever from 90's to now are abit boards. Many of them. I still have crazy old boards functioning perfectly.

the worst boards longevity and bugs was ASUS and is asus. The more forum threads are about them than any other. ALWAYS a bios fix, always a complaint, always an incompatibility. people say no for years and there always is one. the worst boards I ever worked on were asus, i worked on hundreds of them alone from 90's to present.

Oddly, asrock has less issues than asus at times, but they too are very buggy in terms of obscure incompatibility problems. I would not suggest them either, even though I still buy them for fun at times.

Second to abit in longevity was Intel boards. Next is Foxcon. foxcon retail boards, not the OEM stuff

Dephcon · Post by **Dephcon** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:37 pm

That's too bad, I love my NF7-S and IP35-Pro. Still think the NF7-S was the best mobo ever made, still kickin' after 8 years of 24/7 overclocked to the max, though same goes for my barton 2500+.

QuietOC · Post by **QuietOC** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:08 pm

jhhoffma wrote:My first build back in 1998 was with an Abit BX6 (440BX P2 board). It was rock solid and will still be in use in a couple weeks when I rebuild a machine for my mother using a 650MHz Coppermine P3...

It's amazing what you can do with old systems if you choose your OS and software carefully.

You might be able to run a Tualatin in your BX6. I had a Celeron 1200 running at 1.5GHz in my BX133-RAID, but it does require a little modification to the CPU pins.

~El~Jefe~ wrote:The only boards that lasted forever from 90's to now are abit boards. Many of them. I still have crazy old boards functioning perfectly.

Abit had the same trouble with crappy capacitors all the other motherboard manufacturers had. There was even a successful class action lawsuit against Abit that might have done them in last time they went bankrupt. I had to send in a BX133-RAID for service, but they cross shipped a replacement, so I didn't complain.

Tom Brown · Post by **Tom Brown** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:56 pm

Dephcon wrote:Still think the NF7-S was the best mobo ever made, still kickin' after 8 years of 24/7 overclocked to the max, though same goes for my barton 2500+.

Wow. Your post takes me back. I had a NF7-S/Barton system too. Loved it. I was the envy of our IT department for a while. lol!

SlaveToSilence · Post by **SlaveToSilence** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:23 pm

I remember when i had an NF7-S! and an amd 3000+ which cost ~Â£293!!
bargain

silent_partner · Post by **silent_partner** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:05 pm

Also, the NF7-S came with soundstorm - which made mp3's sound like they were eminating from a hifi. I miss soundstorm - I bought the shuttle SN45G which had it and took soundstorm for granted until I 'upgraded' my system. Tried the renowned asus xonar sound card but it's no match for the soundstorm for mp3 playback.

~El~Jefe~ · Post by **~El~Jefe~** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:03 pm

QuietOC wrote:
jhhoffma wrote:My first build back in 1998 was with an Abit BX6 (440BX P2 board). It was rock solid and will still be in use in a couple weeks when I rebuild a machine for my mother using a 650MHz Coppermine P3...

It's amazing what you can do with old systems if you choose your OS and software carefully.
You might be able to run a Tualatin in your BX6. I had a Celeron 1200 running at 1.5GHz in my BX133-RAID, but it does require a little modification to the CPU pins.
~El~Jefe~ wrote:The only boards that lasted forever from 90's to now are abit boards. Many of them. I still have crazy old boards functioning perfectly.
Abit had the same trouble with crappy capacitors all the other motherboard manufacturers had. There was even a successful class action lawsuit against Abit that might have done them in last time they went bankrupt. I had to send in a BX133-RAID for service, but they cross shipped a replacement, so I didn't complain.

I just noticed this. Do you realize that it was for less than half of a year and that abit has been in my home since the early 90's? hm.... that capacitor thing is so overblown by people. The only good boards I ever have witnessed last a really long time are Abit, Tyan and most of the time, intel. everything else was a turd. the worst over the past 15 years is Asus. 100's of boards repaired of those suckers.

~El~Jefe~ · Post by **~El~Jefe~** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:04 pm

Tom Brown wrote:
Dephcon wrote:Still think the NF7-S was the best mobo ever made, still kickin' after 8 years of 24/7 overclocked to the max, though same goes for my barton 2500+.
Wow. Your post takes me back. I had a NF7-S/Barton system too. Loved it. I was the envy of our IT department for a while. lol!

i have the p1 and pII boards still. work fine.

JazzJackRabbit · Post by **JazzJackRabbit** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:15 am

That's too bad. When I researched which motherboards to buy to upgrade my aging computer fleet they were the best. I bought three IP35-Pro and one IP35-E.

I figured something was wrong when they started manufacturing cut down IP35 motherboards and didn't release IP45 board. Sad to hear them closing down for good. This will make finding good motherboard so much harder now.

truckman · Post by **truckman** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:54 pm

Such a shame. I bought a NF-M2 nView a few years ago, and more recently a couple of AN-M2HDs. All three have been really solid boards. The NF-M2 and one of the AN-M2HDs have been running 24x7 since purchase.

The only motherboard that I've had with a capacitor problem was an AOpen socket 370 board. It also had other issues.

erkan · Post by **erkan** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:26 am

Abit BP-6 rest in piece

Riffer · Post by **Riffer** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:13 pm

truckman wrote:Such a shame. I bought a NF-M2 nView a few years ago, and more recently a couple of AN-M2HDs. All three have been really solid boards. The NF-M2 and one of the AN-M2HDs have been running 24x7 since purchase.

The only motherboard that I've had with a capacitor problem was an AOpen socket 370 board. It also had other issues.

I had a terrible one from them, the MX3S-T. I eventually just chucked it.

Riffer · Post by **Riffer** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:15 pm

truckman wrote:Such a shame. I bought a NF-M2 nView a few years ago, and more recently a couple of AN-M2HDs. All three have been really solid boards. The NF-M2 and one of the AN-M2HDs have been running 24x7 since purchase.

The only motherboard that I've had with a capacitor problem was an AOpen socket 370 board. It also had other issues.

I had a terrible one from them, the MX3S-T. I eventually just chucked it.

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:04 pm

Goodbye Abit.