Abit in liquidation?

nightmare99 · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:47

As reported on a popular UK hardware site, discuss . . .

arknor · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:03

they said they were getting out of the motherboard market awhile back, someone probably just realised and decided to be a drama queen

nightmare99 · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:06

No this is the actual company Universal Abit closing which means no warranties etc which were supposed to be supported by the continuation of Abit.

Egon · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:10

I don't own any Abit hardware fortunately. But I have done in the past, they used to make great motherboards, one of the best early overclocking boards I had was an Abit (NF7) I think to clock my Barton 2500.

Shame to see them go under, if its the case. Can only see it driving prices up.

nightmare99 · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:11

Can only see it driving prices up.

Apart from the remaining Abit stock that is already in the channel, people will be giving this away as there is no warranty anymore.

Egon · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:16

I was thinking competitor prices up with there being less competition. However I suppose there is still enough manufacturers out there to keep it competitive, so the likely outcome will be no change.

nightmare99 · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:27

Haha, yeah I know what you meant

And I'm saying there should be some damn fine Abit bargins poping up if you don't mind having a warranty, hell why not buy an extra as a spare.

deshepherd · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:51

nightmare99 said:
Apart from the remaining Abit stock that is already in the channel, people will be giving this away as there is no warranty anymore.

No manufacturer warranty ... but retailer will still have liabiity under sales of goods etc

nightmare99 · 4 Mar 2009 at 11:05

No manufacturer warranty ... but retailer will still have liabiity under sales of goods etc

Depends how they sell them, most likley will be sold with 7 or 14 day warranty. They would not sell with 12 months warranty knowing they can't get them repaired/replaced.

errata · 4 Mar 2009 at 12:27

sale of goods act cannot be ignored at retail for new goods, most will go as used or auction

nightmare99 · 4 Mar 2009 at 12:29

I'm pretty sure they can as long as it is presented at the point of sale.

I guess anybody that has a board at the moment will at least get a credit if it goes faulty providing there are no replacements left in the channel.

BUFF · 4 Mar 2009 at 17:08

abit was owned by USI which is certainly continuing (it's a major, major company) & at least in the US abit warranty work was already being handled by USI so I imagine if this is true that's probably the model that would be followed elsewhere.

edit: just read the article in question & noted "We did speak to someone in the finance department who didn't want to reveal her name. She confirmed that not only has abit not been selling mainboards since the start of the year, but has stopped selling any products whatsoever and the office is only being kept going to handle warranties."

zeppelin` · 4 Mar 2009 at 17:43

abit were a brilliant no nonsense motherboard company, simple cheap and can clock the nuts off the like of the ip35 pro, if they go really cheap i may buy 1 for giggles

perkele · 4 Mar 2009 at 18:01

EgonSpengler said:
one of the best early overclocking boards I had was an Abit (NF7) I think to clock my Barton 2500.

NF7-SRev2 perhaps?

I had the same, was a top board, aye it we'.

dtokez · 4 Mar 2009 at 18:12

shame to see them going

Big.Wayne · 4 Mar 2009 at 18:26

R.I.P Abit
17th Dec 2008