Report: Motherboard Manufacturer Abit Closing

So basically Abit boards since 2006 have been produced by USI, and the brand likely continues? No worries there, although there will be damage to the name with this announcement.

damn i like my ip35 pro.

Jeez! It's a wonder it's not being put down to piracy :P

RIP BH6

You server my celeron 300a at @450 well and saved me about $500

No worries. As I understand, some of their engineers have gone over to Biostar who are now putting out some decent quality boards.

I only buy XFX, EVGA and ASUS motherboards.

"...a combination digital picture frame/printer. "

WOW. THATS GENIUS.

How about we all get one or two of those and save Abit's bums?

I'm running an Abit IP35 right now and it's an awesome board. Shame they are closing.

it is my recollection that abit basically created modern enthusiast computer building and overclocking with the bx6 and its bios and motherboard manual.

up until that point motherboard manuals were more like chair assembly pamphlets and motherboard bioses were the bare minimum to get the thing going. to build a computer and overclock it you really had to know a thing to two.

with the bx6 anyone could follow the instructions in the manual to build the computer, and then tweak their motherboard-cpu-memory system. and with that began the age of every monkey building and tweaking their computer.

pour out a glass for old abit, it was an innovator worthy of recognition.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Damn, that's a shame. Abit was in the first system I built myself--800MHz Duron @ 1100MHz or something, with 256MB of 2-2-2 RAM, baby!--way back in 1999. I've had DFI and Asus since, but Abit was quality enough to give me a positive experience with my first system and I'll always appreciate that.

Well, that sucks.

Abit stuff was the shit when I first got into building and tweaking PCs. They got their start making only high-performance motherboards. It's too bad they couldn't survive the 'bad cap' fiasco of '99 (not the mobo makers' fault, but buyers didn't see it that way) that hurt them worse than other board makers because of their popularity and the lack of a larger parent organization to help with their warranty service costs. Then they got bitten by the Via 686B chipset's bugs in the early 00's, which manifested themselves worst when you were overclocking on performance boards like the KT-A series.

They never really recovered from the losses they sustained, though for a while it looked like they were pulling it off - they continued to make some very good boards like the NF7 with its best-in-class SoundStorm audio implementation and solid OC'ing performance (as others have mentioned) and the AN series with their µGuru overclocking & monitor chip (a first), and of course the much lauded IP35 series.

Unfortunately, they were also floundering around with various side ventures like sound cards and speakers that never took off, graphics cards that weren't any better than others, etc. I think they were trying to become Asus - but Asus was already a larger company and moreover, they were created by conglomerating several specialty manufacturers who had already expertise in the product catagories Abit was trying to break into.

They were one of the few mobo manufacturers that always had the features I look for on a board, like digital audio out- and inputs, front and rear panel 1394 connections and more. FWIW, every mobo I've owned has been an Abit and I had very good luck with all of them - even my KT133A.

R.I.P., Abit. I'll miss my 'Reliable Partner.'

*poors one out for the BP6*

I've owned 2-3 Abit boards over the past 10 years. I've always been pretty satisfied with them.

I really do think they were one of the innovators, though. They often had some of the nicer heatsinks, or better BIOS, or better onboard monitoring. Maybe the other players were darn close and even enthusiats mobos is still a semi-commodity market, but I think they provided good competition.

I think we'll survive. There's still Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, etc.

good thing we still have ECS covering the quality mobos dept eh ? </sarcarsm>

Man i LOVE my IP35Pro... i've been rockin Abit boards since the PII days.. it will be a shame to see them go

i guess that means no BIOS updates for me anymore... =(

AW9D Maxx is having issues so I guess no luck there now

Not about Abit, but does anybody remember Epox? What the fuck happened to that company? I used to use them for every build I did and even wikipedia doesn't know what the fuck is up The German and Dutch subsidiaries of EPoX closed in 2007. The current status of the parent company is unclear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epox

Fuck abit my ip35 pro was dying and their support is useless even though they said they would support US users.

I got a Abit mb. Does that mean i lose?

used to be a abit man, had at least one board of from the crap out solid. but out of 5 boards, i still liked em.

/pours one out for Abit.

long live the bx6!

http://www.hardwarezone.com/reviews/mb/abitbx6/abitbx6.htm

My computer with Abit KT7 Raid is still going strong.

that sucks, abit owned :(

Sad. Even their last boards were quite nice.

bummer, i used to love a bit boards :(