R.I.P Abit

Big.Wayne said:
ASUS are obviously better boards than ABIT no? otherwise they would still be in business no? . . . dunno it may just be a few weak staff high up at ABIT who fluffed things up?
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No, product quality & successful business/sales often aren't related believe it or not.
Very often the company with the better product doesn't have the business or marketing skills/clout of a larger organisation.

Actually what is the reason for ABIT pulling out the mobo business?
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they couldn't make the profit margins in mobos that their parent group want them too. It's become very much a business where economies of scale are very important & they aren't/weren't big enough to compete with Asus/ECS/Foxconn/Gigabyte/MSI.
 
I thought Abit had been rubbish for years? I used them a lot in the late nineties but haven't been tempted to buy an Abit product since at least 2001.
 
Agree with the general sentiment here, if I wanted a cheap board for a reliable build on a budget I would usually go for abit. A real shame.. Still some baords for sale, time to buy one for posterity?
 
TiZoR said:
Foxconn will be pulling out of the market soon, but still make oem, thing is, this is bad as the likes of asus will overcharge for products.
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Sauce? :p (foxconn bit)

Saaya says it's non-founded

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3523350&postcount=8

Saaya said:
those rumors are old, dont know why digitimes and fudzilla posted that stuff again... maybe they didnt have anything else to post
there have been no news at all regarding the layoffs, all the info there is old, like 1-2 months or so.

and yes, some 10s of thousands of people will be laid off in china, unfortunately...
thats only a workforce reduction of around 10% though, shenzen alone, the biggest foxconn fab, has 300.000 employees
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I don't really feel it as much of a great loss imo, i haven't felt any of there boards have been worth buying since the days of the NF7-S, their competition always had something better
 
littlepuppy said:
Agree with the general sentiment here, if I wanted a cheap board for a reliable build on a budget I would usually go for abit. A real shame.. Still some baords for sale, time to buy one for posterity?
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Get your hands on a "Abit ip35 pro", cos there rock solid and its the best board Ive ever bought.
 
Hefner said:
All the A64 boards Abit produced were so so
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disagree at least on S939.
AN8 series was very strong on S939.
AN8 32X was quite possibly the best C51D mobo & the AT8 & AT8 32X were probably the best ATi 480 & 580 chipset S939 mobos.

AM2 may have been different but I never really found any AM2 mobo as compelling especially with Intel C2D around.
 
My ABIT Fatality F-190HD has just died after a BIOS update, I've just come across this thread and looking at the situation I'm not holding out too much hope on me being able to sort out a RMA, I've looked on he Abit eurepe site and it looks like theire office is in Netherlands I'm not sure if it's worth the expense and the hassle :(
I'm wondering if I might just chuck it and get some thing else.
 
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