Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market

**specmike** · 08-28-2008, 04:55 PM

abit exits mainboard market - confirmed :: HEXUS.channel - Essential IT business intelligence

From the article:

Quote:

HEXUS.channel can exclusively confirm that Taiwanese technology company abit, which is associated primarily with high-end and gaming mainboards, will stop producing all mainboards at the end of 2008.

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.

ATINUT · 08-28-2008, 04:58 PM

I'm not surprised, I was to their website recently, and saw they didn't have hardly any motherboards listed, and nothing based on newer chipsets like the Intel P45 chipset.

**specmike** · 08-28-2008, 05:04 PM

Yeah, several people got excited at their forums this week as ABIT finally announced an X48 MOBO in the EU. Probably too little too late if any of this is true.

ATINUT · 08-28-2008, 06:12 PM

What also sucked is that in recent years, if this is true, is that ABIT developed a history of not putting out hardly any bios updates for their products.

johnrr6 · 08-28-2008, 06:36 PM

What a shame.....

A lesson in spreading yourself too thin with too much expansion---too many products.....

and forgetting who you are and what you do best......

Abit used to be the KING....

"made by overclockers----for overclockers....."

Then they lost several key design folks---Oscar Wu, etc. and they tried to explore way too many markets instead of just sticking with VERY solid enthusiast motherboards.....

I used to buy Abit boards specifically for fun and overclocking and have had a tremendous run of great boards over the years......

Even my "Universal" Abit 965 Quad GT was/is an outstanding board......

But when enthusiasts in the UK were the only ones putting out workable BIOS upgrades for it.....

I knew the end was near......

**Sandog** · 08-28-2008, 09:53 PM

I remember when Abit was bigger than Asus. I had an Abit board once.

**specmike** · 08-28-2008, 10:03 PM

Yeah, if this is true, it is sad to the first company with software OCing getting out of the enthusiast MOBO business.

XJ. · 08-29-2008, 12:10 AM

Abit used to be the b*lls. I still have an N7F-S v2.0 sitting in a system (was using it to test Win Server 2008). Bye, bye Abit, sorry to see you go.

johnrr6 · 08-29-2008, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by XJ.

Abit used to be the b*lls. I still have an N7F-S v2.0 sitting in a system (was using it to test Win Server 2008). Bye, bye Abit, sorry to see you go.

A SUPERB board----I had one too....

My all time favorite GREAT overclocking "deal".....

a 2500+ Barton and an N7F-S......

Talk about getting WAY more than your money's worth.....

With Nvidia "Sound Storm"-----superb onboard sound......

Incrdible buy at the time.....A 2500+Barton for $65 and the Mobo for $70

and-----when overclocked----(which was INCREDIBLY easy) it hung with basically anything Intel had out at the time..... for less than half the price......

Ah----those were the days.....

yamawho · 08-29-2008, 09:03 AM

Never had an Abit mobo ...

Started with Asus, then Gigabyte, then MSI then ASRock with some Intel in between and how back to Asus.

ATINUT · 08-29-2008, 10:29 AM

I had one ABIT board, it was the AT8 32X when I tried an AMD Crossfire rig, and had trouble with the ATI/ULI chipset combination. The ABIT was a good board, as I wasn't overclocking. Came back to Intel after that, and had a lot of trouble with the ASUS P5N32-E SLI board, ended up dumping that board, for my Intel D975XBX2 which doesn't give me a bit of trouble.

WhiteEclipse · 08-29-2008, 11:12 AM

You want old school, I use to have an Abit BH6. That thing was awesome.

I would overclock my celeron 300 by 50% up to 450.

No Jumpers for anything!!! That is common now, but at the time it was pretty revolutionary on that level board.

All these years later and it is still in use by my wife as a word/internet desktop. It is using a converter to run a Tulation 1400.

johnrr6 · 08-29-2008, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhiteEclipse

You want old school, I use to have an Abit BH6. That thing was awesome.

I would overclock my celeron 300 by 50% up to 450.

No Jumpers for anything!!! That is common now, but at the time it was pretty revolutionary on that level board.

All these years later and it is still in use by my wife as a word/internet desktop. It is using a converter to run a Tulation 1400.

BH6----you are right-----another GREAT Abit board....

forgot about that one.....

They had so many----their IC7s were incredible overclockers as well....

**specmike** · 08-29-2008, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnrr6

They had so many----their IC7s were incredible overclockers as well....

After the VTT mod of course

**Sandog** · 08-29-2008, 01:25 PM

Still A live...ABIT X48 GT3 DDR3 Arrived .....!!! - XtremeSystems Forums

08-28-2008, 04:58 PM	#2
ATINUT Just Plain Crazy! Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 3,278	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market I'm not surprised, I was to their website recently, and saw they didn't have hardly any motherboards listed, and nothing based on newer chipsets like the Intel P45 chipset. __________________ Intel D975XBX2 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 8GB's of Mushkin HP2 6400 memory(DDR2 800) two Sapphire GDDR4 Radeon 3870 videocards HT Omega Claro(Cmedia 8788HD chip) 120GB&200GB&320GB Western Digital harddrives LG DVDROM & LG DVDBURNER HP Deskjet 920C Logitech X-540 speakers Viewsonic VG2030wm 20inch Widescreen LCD Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit with Service Pack 1 Who'se the fool that approved the design for this place. - The Dwarf, Sacred Underworld.
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08-28-2008, 05:04 PM	#3
specmike Yes, Yellowbeard Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Metro Atlanta, GA. Posts: 2,625	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market Yeah, several people got excited at their forums this week as ABIT finally announced an X48 MOBO in the EU. Probably too little too late if any of this is true. __________________ CORSAIR TECH SUPPORT
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08-28-2008, 06:12 PM	#4
ATINUT Just Plain Crazy! Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 3,278	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market What also sucked is that in recent years, if this is true, is that ABIT developed a history of not putting out hardly any bios updates for their products. __________________ Intel D975XBX2 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 8GB's of Mushkin HP2 6400 memory(DDR2 800) two Sapphire GDDR4 Radeon 3870 videocards HT Omega Claro(Cmedia 8788HD chip) 120GB&200GB&320GB Western Digital harddrives LG DVDROM & LG DVDBURNER HP Deskjet 920C Logitech X-540 speakers Viewsonic VG2030wm 20inch Widescreen LCD Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit with Service Pack 1 Who'se the fool that approved the design for this place. - The Dwarf, Sacred Underworld.
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08-28-2008, 06:36 PM	#5
johnrr6 Lucky Amateur Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Virginia Posts: 2,351	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market What a shame..... A lesson in spreading yourself too thin with too much expansion---too many products..... and forgetting who you are and what you do best...... Abit used to be the KING.... "made by overclockers----for overclockers....." Then they lost several key design folks---Oscar Wu, etc. and they tried to explore way too many markets instead of just sticking with VERY solid enthusiast motherboards..... I used to buy Abit boards specifically for fun and overclocking and have had a tremendous run of great boards over the years...... Even my "Universal" Abit 965 Quad GT was/is an outstanding board...... But when enthusiasts in the UK were the only ones putting out workable BIOS upgrades for it..... I knew the end was near...... __________________ 1st Rig:-----------------------------------------------------2nd Rig: Q6600 @ 3.2 Ghz------------------------------------------9850 BE at 2.6 Ghz Vista Ultimate Edition 32 Bit SP1--------------------------Vista Ultimate Edition 64 Bit SP1 AB9QuadGT, BIOS .13-------------------------------------AsRock 780G BIOS 1.50 Thermalright SI-128 HS w/JMC 120 PWM Fan------------Thermaltake Blue Orb II 4 x 1 Gig Gskill PC 6400 Micron D9's---------------------Mushkin 4 x 2 Gig PC8500 eVGA 8800 GTX--------------------------------------------ATI HD 4870 4 x 250 Gig Western Digital SATA II HDs in RAID 5-----2 x 500Gig Western Digital SATA II HDs in RAID 0 Lite-On 20x DVD Burner w/Lightscribe--------------------Samsung SATA Tru Direct DVD Burner w/Lightscribe OCZ 700 W GameXstream PSU---------------------------Silverstone 500 Watt ST50EF PSU Creative X-Fi sound----------------------------------------Azalia Onboard Sound Lian Li PC-7B Plus II Black Case--------------------------Silverstone SG01 SFF Black Case Speedlink Medusa 5.1 headphones----------------------Hauppage 1600 TV Card
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08-28-2008, 09:53 PM	#6
Sandog DP45SG/Q9650 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Alabama Posts: 6,184	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market I remember when Abit was bigger than Asus. I had an Abit board once.
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08-28-2008, 10:03 PM	#7
specmike Yes, Yellowbeard Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Metro Atlanta, GA. Posts: 2,625	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market Yeah, if this is true, it is sad to the first company with software OCing getting out of the enthusiast MOBO business. __________________ CORSAIR TECH SUPPORT
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08-29-2008, 12:10 AM	#8
XJ. ... Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NH, USA Posts: 6,064	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market Abit used to be the b*lls. I still have an N7F-S v2.0 sitting in a system (was using it to test Win Server 2008). Bye, bye Abit, sorry to see you go.
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08-29-2008, 09:03 AM	#10
yamawho Linux user Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Montreal Posts: 4,067	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market Never had an Abit mobo ... Started with Asus, then Gigabyte, then MSI then ASRock with some Intel in between and how back to Asus. __________________
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08-29-2008, 10:29 AM	#11
ATINUT Just Plain Crazy! Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 3,278	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market I had one ABIT board, it was the AT8 32X when I tried an AMD Crossfire rig, and had trouble with the ATI/ULI chipset combination. The ABIT was a good board, as I wasn't overclocking. Came back to Intel after that, and had a lot of trouble with the ASUS P5N32-E SLI board, ended up dumping that board, for my Intel D975XBX2 which doesn't give me a bit of trouble. __________________ Intel D975XBX2 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 8GB's of Mushkin HP2 6400 memory(DDR2 800) two Sapphire GDDR4 Radeon 3870 videocards HT Omega Claro(Cmedia 8788HD chip) 120GB&200GB&320GB Western Digital harddrives LG DVDROM & LG DVDBURNER HP Deskjet 920C Logitech X-540 speakers Viewsonic VG2030wm 20inch Widescreen LCD Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit with Service Pack 1 Who'se the fool that approved the design for this place. - The Dwarf, Sacred Underworld.
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08-29-2008, 11:12 AM	#12
WhiteEclipse Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 865	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market You want old school, I use to have an Abit BH6. That thing was awesome. I would overclock my celeron 300 by 50% up to 450. No Jumpers for anything!!! That is common now, but at the time it was pretty revolutionary on that level board. All these years later and it is still in use by my wife as a word/internet desktop. It is using a converter to run a Tulation 1400.
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08-29-2008, 01:25 PM	#15
Sandog DP45SG/Q9650 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Alabama Posts: 6,184	Re: Hexus: "Sources" Confirm ABIT is Exiting MOBO Market Still A live...ABIT X48 GT3 DDR3 Arrived .....!!! - XtremeSystems Forums
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