**ABIT MOTHERBOARDS RETURN WITH THEIR FINEST!!**

Abit didn't do themselves any favours with the bad capacitors saga (if anyone remembers, it resulted in a class action lawsuit against them).
 
I had an Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI during uni, quite an impressive board with some nice features, although I never really bothered overclocking so most of them were lost on me. The uGuru front panel was quite handy though, nice to be able to change fan profiles on the fly instead of having to restart into the BIOS like many other MBs. Also had a couple of fans on the back IO panel for cooling the MOSFETs, again probably useless seeing as I wasn't overclocking but it seemed like a fun thing to have at the time.

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Is it not surprising, with how many fond owners there are, just on this forum... that they aren't still around? Surely they must still have the fab plants to make this stuff?!

Can't we do some crowd funding like carmageddon to get them back ;)
 
I always used Abit, especially in the celeron overclocking days.

I am LONG overdue a new PC, I just grew outta it really but my main machine is pretty bloomin' old now, P4 3.2GHz running on an Abit IC7 GMAX2 (i875 Canterwood) Motherboard

Been used every day since 2004 and it aint broke yet :)
 
I never bought Abit (always been an ASUS fanboy), but heard good things about them.

Without pretending I understand business, there seems to be quite a few happy customers of them there... then why did they quit!?
 
nkata said:
The 2003 machine in post #10 ran 3 large CRT screens from two graphics cards (one PCI). It had an IDE C: drive and a U160 scsi array with three disks.

The processor was an overclocked thoroughbred.

It was used mainly for coding software for analysis of a data acquisition. the 'pogo' stick in the picture had an accelerometer attached and was tapped with a hammer to produce a signature waveform which was captured and run through the programs being developed.

The field app was to determine loads in mine roof bolts by impacting the end of the bars with a solenoid device.
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I was just goin to say that :confused: lol:p
 
A mate still has an old ABIT board (an IP35 too iirc) as he swore by them. It is only a spare now as he has an iMac now. Think he said I could have it :p

Going a bit off topic, what other old PCs does anyone have that see regular service? I have an old P3-800 with SCSI disks, an ATi Rage Fury Maxx (the first dual GPU single board solution!) and a couple of Voodoo2's in SLI for playing old games :cool:
 
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