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Here's hoping another company will step up to the mark.
Shame, I had no experience with them, but I was seriously considering them for my next upgrade!
Here's hoping another company will step up to the mark.
They still have warranty, but yea I wonder about BIOS and driver updates :\Originally Posted by Zadock
I quite liked the Abit board I had, was the Athlon 64 Fatal1ty one with the extra fans and the front control panel. Little bit unstable at times, but it had one very nice feature my current Asus doesn't have - the ability to set fan profiles and change them from within Windows. Handy for switching between a quiet profile when doing normal stuff, and a better profile for gaming.
Really is a damn shame, they will be missed.
EDIT: Correct me if I'm wrong, but abit boards haven't had BIOS updates since the back end of 2008 anyway. Hence the problems with the IP35 range and 45nm chips.
i think they had the capability to fix those issues they would have been done long before the end of 2008?
Real pity. One less decent brand in the market."Who's next?" springs to mind
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Damn shame to see them go. I had some real good times with the Abit KT7, NF7-S and KN8 Ultra.
R.I.P Abit
Sig here?
Not hugely surprising, but you have to wonder if the Abit name will be sold on - surely theres still some value in the brand, if not the company.
Slightly off topic, but was the second page written by Paul? That's how it read to me for some reason.
Damn sad news indeed, they had been my no.1 mainboard brand and used in all my builds since the 1990s. I have used 3 different processor brands in their boards and must have bought about 10 different chipsets and even the odd graphics card or two over that time.
Veryto see you finally end ABIT after 20-years!
Will anyone out there resurrect the brand name, which must be worth something?
I had tons pf Abit boards and its the only one brand that never really fails (unlike gubbins from ASUS, Gigabyte or stock Intel boards)..
Going to list the legendary ones I've owned from Abit... makes us remember about the good times
NF7-S
NF7-M
AV8 Pro
AX8
AX8 v2.0
IP-35 Dark Raider
IN9-MAX32
Shame... really... real shame..
Me want Ultrabook
My first custom build was with an Abit BH6 and a Celeron 300A, fond memories of that board and the NF7-S.
Real shame a company who really gave a s*t about us enthusiasts has gone. I loved my nf7-s with its custom bios. Monster board.
R.I.P. It's a shame, they've made some very good hardware. I am still a bit annoyed by that HD corruption issue I encountered with the NF7-S v2, but all in all they were a good company and usually one of the first I look at when shopping for a motherboard.
sad news. i had used abit almost exclusively from my bp6 back in the day until my latest motherboard a gigabyte p35ds3r
This means I now have 3 motherboards with bios issues to sort out .... mind you the mb boxes and design work was cool ! ..
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