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Abit To Close Its Doors Forever On Dec. 31, 2008

Posted by kdawson on from the then-there-were-fewer dept.

ki1obyte writes "Earlier this year the Taiwanese firm Abit, once a leading-edge maker of computer mainboards and other components, was slated to shut down motherboard production by the end of 2008 and focus on consumer electronics devices. Now X-bit labs reports that Abit will cease to exist entirely after midnight on the last day of 2008 because the owner of the brand, Universal Scientific Industrial, is in the process of restructuring and cutting their costs."

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  1. Not surprising... by kklein · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I started out on Abit boards and loved them, but after a few years I started having more and more problems with them. I switched to Asus and the problems went away. I was surprised they were still around.

    1. Re:Not surprising... by sa1lnr · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Since 2000 I have had seven motherboards fail within warranty period.

      1 MSI
      1 ECS
      1 Abit
      4 Asus (All in the last 3 years)

      I'm Gigabyte all the way now and won't touch Asus with a bargepole.

    2. Re:Not surprising... by trum4n · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Every EVGA board made will fail in the warranty period. the LIFETIME WARRANTY. Personally i can't believe none of you mentioned EVGA. Great boards, low cost. BTW, i also have a BP6. Got it 2nd hard at a yard sale, took it home and popped the side off the case, and was baffled that it had 2 cellerys in it. I did some research, and took 2x400Mhz to 2x825Mhz. Took a week to get that grin off. It's a file server now.

  2. High-end isn't in demand anymore. by mind21_98 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Abit specialized in high-end motherboards back in the day. I'm not too surprised that they're closing now; most people are going with laptops now, and the people who get desktops get sub-$1k machines, anyway. Hell, most desktops seem to be less than $500 now.

    Oh well, at least Gigabyte's still around. *hugs his mobo*

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  3. Re:Sad News by jamesh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    good quality reliable boards

    I bought an Abit BP6 about 8 years ago, and it served me well up until about a year ago, but I wouldn't call it reliable or good quality. Abit had heaps of trouble with crappy firmware releases for it, and the onboard ATA-100 controller was known to be crap. It caused massive corruption under Linux, which could have been a driver bug but I more suspect it was hardware related.

    A later version than mine was released with bad capacitors. Apparently replacing those improved reliability in that model.

    Still, it was a dirt cheap dual celeron board that did the job (I wanted to experiment with SMP coding). It's sitting on the floor next to me right now, but only because I haven't gotten around to turfing it yet.