Looks like Abit have dropped the ball ....

Super Tigers · 18 Jul 2006 at 18:12

as reported on xtreme, a guy has got a abit AB9 965 mobo that wouldn't boot with a conroe cpu, had to boot it with 840EE and find a new bios to flash

Not a good start.

Rob H

fenderbass86 · 18 Jul 2006 at 18:14

Abit lost it a couple of years back. Definately not good for them, unless it's a one off.

killer_uk · 18 Jul 2006 at 18:30

It may just be that it doesn't work with ES chips.

Paul_Robson · 18 Jul 2006 at 19:32

Abit are total crap. A few years ago a bought an abit board, and i had nothing but trouble. I returned the board 4 times and everytime got a new one, and i still didnt have any joy. I kid you not, if you gave me ANY abit motherboard i would just bin it there and then. For my it can only be Asus or DFI, they are simply well made board that keep the pc steady and happy,plus, they always seem to get a lot of updates/bios's. Oh, and i never pay less than £120 for a motherboard. At the end of the day, the motherboard is what connects everything up and gets every component talking to each other.

lay-z-boy · 18 Jul 2006 at 22:16

abit are trying hard now, but they suck at layouts instead of stability or oc'ing.

Paul_Robson · 19 Jul 2006 at 00:30

I am sure they are trying hard and got better.But the experience i had with them was very bad and left a nasty taste in my mouth.

TheVoice · 19 Jul 2006 at 01:11

I've got an Abit at the moment (AN8-SLI Fatal1ty) and it's been very solid. The uGuru software is a bit iffy at times (although I believe they've released a new version, will have to check it out), but other than that, I'm happy.

Had 3 Asus boards in the past, both had problems. I know their new boards are very solid, but it'll be a while before I give them my money again, nonetheless.

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Iceberg2 · 19 Jul 2006 at 07:30

Come on guyz at least the last MAX 3 was good

. Stable fast and just filled with tune up buttons

djay · 19 Jul 2006 at 08:40

TheVoice said:
Had 3 Asus boards in the past, both had problems.

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I had an Abit A8N SLI Fatality and it was a fantastic motherboard for me, however ASUS have always been great when iv'e had them, also. Never had any issues with any boards other than DFI.

FirebarUK · 19 Jul 2006 at 09:22

I've always had great experiences with Abit, I've been using them on and off for around 4 years.

FreeStream · 19 Jul 2006 at 10:08

My Abit NF7-S was awsome, sad I sold it

deadeyedic30 · 19 Jul 2006 at 11:19

Agreed, Abit NF7-S was one of the greats. Thier problem was they lost their best research and development guys to DFI.

jellybeard999 · 19 Jul 2006 at 12:07

deadeyedic30 said:
Agreed, Abit NF7-S was one of the greats. Thier problem was they lost their best research and development guys to DFI.

agreed...

it isnt coincidental DFI only actually got OK with the NF3 250gb ... before that, the NF2 boards were WAAY too much hassle... higher FSB than the NF7-S, but lower clock overall... and 80% of em just died for no reason

BUFF · 20 Jul 2006 at 10:03

As you can tell by the sig Abits are still my favourite boards & I haven't had any problems with the layouts, performance or reliability.

re. the new AB9, yes it's odd but in a certain mindset it make sense (like the Max boards without legacy ports).
Intel saw fit not to put an IDE controller in the sb because they believe that it's dead & the floppy is virtually obsolete too.
I can't believe that anybody is willing to spend several £100s to upgrade mobo, cpu & possibly RAM & quibble about £25 for a SATA DVD-R/RW (e.g. Samsung) ...

The guy has an ES CPU, afaik the board works fine with retail CPUs.
& people have been having to flash Asus boards to get them to work with Core 2 too.
Of course if it's a dog performance wise fair enough but I don't think that it will be.