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RIP abit, Dec. 31st 2008
Author: Richard SwinburnePublished: 18th December 2008
"Leading Manufacturer of High-End Enthusiast and Gaming Motherboards".. yes, yes you once were..
However its long drawn out departure has been something of an inevitability, especially since it stopped making performance motherboards earlier this year to concentrate on more consumer orientated items like the abit FunFab.
While we wished abit all the best at the time, part of us died inside having seen what the once and arguably "first" enthusiast brand had been reduced to.
What let abit down? TweakTown comments: "Its management were excused and charged for bad financial practices, key staff walked away from the company, engineers jumped ship – ABIT, as we knew it, would never to be the same as it once were." Those key staff went to other companies and helped create new enthusiast brands that we know and love today.
Since USI revived the brand in 2006 and basically didn't have the "enthusiast understanding" to know what to do with it, it's been on a slow demise ever since. Having known a fair few abit employees during our time, we know that many have already left for better things, and of those left we wish them luck in the future too.
abit will continue to honour RMA and warranty requests for motherboards for up to the next three years, according to a statement previously.
Well, farewell old chap, it was nice knowing you. Will someone else revive the abit brand in the future? Or should it just be laid to rest permanently, so us old school enthusiasts can scoff at the newbies when they claim they "never used an abit board"? Let us know your thoughts, and condolences in the forums.
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Sad to see them go, again, but at least they're going to honour RMA requests.
my Abit iP35 Pro have the best BIOS i've very worked with. beating Asus P5K-e and Gigabyte x38-DQ6. i was waiting for Abit iP45 Pro to upgrade to :( looks like i'll keep this motherboard until upgrading sockets.
are there any other company that have 6 fan headers and have as good fan configuration as Abit uGuru?? i mean lower temp limit, higher temp limit, lower voltage, higher voltage are all adjustable.
I have always used Abit boards, and while a couple of them have had problems, those were very quickly sorted.
They have not been the same since they went backrupt 2 years ago.
If someone else does pickup the name, they better know what they are doing as the brand does have a great reputation.
RIP Abit
Rather sad news. I rather liked the ABit boards, and their Airpace Wi-Fi card is fantastic!
No-one will forget the BP6, and (for me at least) the NF7s line will forever have a fond spot - I had about 4 of them over a couple of years, and they were all excellent.
lol mine is being used my a buddy i sold my system to about 3 years ago for $400... can still play CallofDuty2 very very smoothly with its 6600GT.... :)
RIP ABIT................... (just realized this actually sounds odd...)
I am glad to see that they will still honor the RMA requests for the next 3 years, so not a total blow out.
[OT] My current asus board has 8 fan headers, however asus dont supply software to limit voltages and speeds, only able to monitor them, of cause can use speedfan to make adjustments. [/OT]
Ive got the same setup sat in a corner, its been a faithful beast now it only gets switched on if im having problems with the main rig, o the memories of my first attempt at overclocking.
Shame their gone.
My current board is a £50 A-S78H, 780G chipset runs an overclocked quad core Phenom no problems at all and paired with a Radeon 4850, its the best value system i've owned....
Here's hoping they rise from the ashes in some form.
I still have a BH6 running a Celeron A 300@450 24/7! That's what I call reliability!
lol I have one of them in my bros PC running a 2500 mate
In the end i had a moblie 2500+ screaming along at 2.7GHz which out did brand new Athlon 64 clawhammers at the time. Joke is its all sat at my parents house in piece's as backup hardware... ROFL when will i ever sell stuff.
I have always looked at Abit, DFI and Gigabyte for mobo's now stuck to two brands.. >:(
I also have this setup downstairs powering my parent pc :) Never had a problem with that machine. Although ive been plagued with problems with my IP35 but mainly due to shocking overclockers RMA service.
I still have an IL90-MV which will only be prised from my cold, dead fingers.