Abit calls it quits

Peter G. 28 Aug, 2008 at 12:55pm ET Article published in Tech

Hexus is reporting Abit will cease motherboard production at the end of 2008. The Taiwanese company will honor RMAs and warranties through 2011 according to the report.

Abit will refocus attention to mobile devices and consumer electronics.

Comments

28 Aug 2008 ~ 12:58pm Thrax Bankruptcy in 5, 4, 3...
28 Aug 2008 ~ 1:06pm Kwitko Icrontic should buy Abit's mobo assets.
28 Aug 2008 ~ 4:33pm GnomeWizardd OMG one of my fav companys too! Thier IP35 board was rock solid
28 Aug 2008 ~ 5:57pm pigflipper The King is dead, long live the King!
28 Aug 2008 ~ 7:40pm Komete Ahh man the first PC I ever built was on a KT7A-raid mobo with a Duron 650 cpu. I over clocked that thing to 950mghz and had my 2 IBM deathstars in raid 0. I've owned one or two abit mobo's since but can't recall the name.

You'll be missed ABIT but not forgotten.
28 Aug 2008 ~ 7:50pm fatcat 21 gun salute to:

KT7A-Raid
KX7-333R
NF7-S v2
29 Aug 2008 ~ 2:01am pigflipper I have owned a:

KT7a
Kx7-333R
NF7-s v2

Best boards I have ever own and all three are still running today.
29 Aug 2008 ~ 2:27am primesuspect I still have my NF7S-2. It has been running 24/7 as SM18 for .. I dunno.. years now.
29 Aug 2008 ~ 2:55am Leonardo KT7-R
KT7A-R
KX7-R
KR7? the one that was between KT and KX series
NF7
IC7 (Socket 478)
IP35-E

The two best boards in my experience, clearly superior to the others, were the KX7 and IC7. My NF7-S2 was very smooth, but was a very unstable overclocker. It even corrupted it's BIOS chip during an overclocking session. It was so bad I had to order another chip. I seem to be one of the few enthusiasts that had bad luck with the NF7.

Small motherboard manufacturers that went out of business, are going out of business, or closed production of consumer models:

Epox
Abit
Iwill (stopped making consumer models)

Let's hope that DFI doesn't see the same fate as these other niche market manufacturers!
29 Aug 2008 ~ 10:13am stoopid That sucks. Good company, good product. Surprised they didn't at least try to sell it off to a competitor...
29 Aug 2008 ~ 10:21am BuddyJ Leo, you can add Shuttle to the list. They're only into making SFF stuff now.
29 Aug 2008 ~ 10:32am Thrax Chaintech and Soltek also stopped making motherboards.
29 Aug 2008 ~ 1:21pm primesuspect Don't forget Soyo
29 Aug 2008 ~ 4:08pm Leonardo Is DFI the only small (relatively speaking) motherboard manufacturer still producing consumer models?
29 Aug 2008 ~ 6:20pm redchief 2 NF - 7 V 2 s still cranking
29 Aug 2008 ~ 6:23pm Thrax

Leonardo wrote:

Is DFI the only small (relatively speaking) motherboard manufacturer still producing consumer models?

Biostar and Jetway remain, off the top of my head.
29 Aug 2008 ~ 6:47pm pigflipper I never had much luck with Biostar boards and I have never heard of Jetway.
29 Aug 2008 ~ 10:20pm BlackHawk So with all these /quit's from companies that were a major factor in AMD's market share in the tweaking community, what does it have in it's favor now? On top of a really good cpu they need to come out with, now they also need a good chipset to back it up.
30 Aug 2008 ~ 12:53am Thrax AMD hasn't had an earth-shatteringly good since the NFORCE4, and one could make the argument that the last good chipset was the NFORCE2 with Soundstorm.

The 790FX is novel, but still behind Intel.
30 Aug 2008 ~ 3:57am pigflipper

Thrax wrote:

AMD hasn't had an earth-shatteringly good since the NFORCE4, and one could make the argument that the last good chipset was the NFORCE2 with Soundstorm.

The 790FX is novel, but still behind Intel.

I would have babies with my NFORCE2 if I could...
30 Aug 2008 ~ 5:29am bothered Abit gone? we can't allow that chaps, can we not organise a whip round?
I think 90% of the boards I've used have been Abit, loved everyone. :sad2:
31 Aug 2008 ~ 5:13pm danball1976 These are the Abit boards I used to (and still own)
KT7-RAID
KT7A-RAID
KX7-RAID
KD7-RAID

In Jan 2007, I went and bought an EPoX EP-MF570SLI board because I felt Abit's quality was still iffy. Little did I know that EPoX went out of business 6 months after that until I noticed they quit releasing updated BIOS's for their boards, and there was no news newer than June 2007.

My next board will more than likely be an MSI or Gigabyte.
31 Aug 2008 ~ 6:26pm Leonardo

can we not organise a whip round

Abit these last two years has been operating on the save exercised by a buyout. The original Abit has been around the last few years mainly in name only. No, I don't think anyone is going to give Abit a third chance (meaning $$$ prop up).
31 Aug 2008 ~ 6:28pm Leonardo In my opinion, for high performance with reasonable prices, DFI and Gigabyte are now our friends. I have been very, very impressed with the boards coming out of Gigabyte. Of course, Asus always offers great performers in their upper end mix, but the prices are steep.
1 Sep 2008 ~ 6:51am Hawk I'm running Abits NF7-V2 & AN7 right now.
Both are over clocked a little and running fine.