R.I.P Abit

smit101 · 29 Jan 2009 at 00:15

I had no idea Abit were in trouble either.I'll never forget my sckt 478 Canterwood IC7 Max 3 mobo,ran it for years with barely a hiccup!

I hope they recover and comeback to the U.K market,lack of competition for existing manufacturers means higher prices for us.

Luffy · 29 Jan 2009 at 00:19

Tis a shame, had some great Abit boards. Over the years they have probably been the manufacturer I bought most.

JeremyW · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:46

I gave up with A-Bit following a terrible experience with a KT7A-Raid board. In two years of trying I never got the thing stable, despite umpteen different BIOSes. Even so, I am said to see them go as in the end, we'll all suffer as lack of competition increases.

higglepiggle · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:47

The KT7A was my first venture to Abit and was sweet hence I stayed for 3 more, funny old world really I guess you must have had a Friday one.

Kainz · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:54

Lt Goody said:
Sad news.
I still have my AW9D-MAX aswell and it was a great board.

That is currently what powers my current E6600 rig with the cpu running at 3.7ghz. A top board/cpu combo. I've always bought Abit mobos and never had an issue with them.

Curio · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:58

I had a KT7A also - legendary board. I also had GeForce 2 and 3 cards from them as well. One of my favorite brands

I have been a Gigabyte man for the past few years though

ljt · 29 Jan 2009 at 20:04

Shame about that, out of the 4 computers i have had 2 had abit boards in them, and both were rock solid

So long KT7A, IP35 Pro)

jvowles · 30 Jan 2009 at 11:43

Real shame. Used Abit compoents for years.

Scania · 5 May 2009 at 04:02

Real pity, I've had my first Abit product for a week or so now (B-Grade IP35Pro) and its without doubt the best board I've ever owned.

And my 2Ghz e2180 is singing happily @3Ghz with its stock intel cooler! - Something my previouis ASRock board could only dream of.

I'd happily have bought Abit again.

trO · 5 May 2009 at 16:37

At the moment I'm still using an Abit NF7-s....had it for 7 years.... The age is the only reason I'm upgrading my Rig....

R.I.P Abit...

bosTRom · 5 May 2009 at 23:56

I think Richard Branson should rescue ABIT.

Nelly · 6 May 2009 at 00:04

bosTRom said:
I think Richard Branson should rescue ABIT.

lol well as long as he employs some decent bios engineer's that regularly does updates & dont break something that wasnt broken in the previous bios it would be great lol

fog · 6 May 2009 at 04:53

Locky 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.

foxconn are not pulling out of the market at all

Defiance_co · 14 May 2009 at 23:56

It was sad news

But, i was talking to a friend across the pond lastnight, one of his relatives works for gigabyte, he was sure his relative had told him sometime ago that gigabyte had made made welcome some more employees that previously worked for abit

So if this is the case (maybe i'm the last to learn this info ? ) then looks like gigabyte may of had the choice of the cream from abit (so to speak)

Well as long as we don't end up with 1 or 2 mainboard manufacturers things should continue to move on techno-wise

TaKeN · 15 May 2009 at 08:10

Their site went down shortly after them closing down. But its back up now (or atleast it was the other day)

So I'm not sure who re-hosted it.

IMO they were at the top of their game, any ideas why they just gave up?

trackrat · 15 May 2009 at 08:56

I only ever bought one Abit board when everyone was singing there praises, and had nothing but trouble with it so I will not miss them.
Lets hope there demise does not allow other manufacturers to push up prices.

Alex53 · 15 May 2009 at 11:47

Hmm I think my mediacentre has one of those Abit HDMI mobos. I hope it doesnt die on me now :|

BUFF · 15 May 2009 at 17:37

TaKeN said:
Their site went down shortly after them closing down. But its back up now (or atleast it was the other day)

So I'm not sure who re-hosted it.

abit or more probably their parent company.
they have said that they will retain support for existing models for the warranty period.

IMO they were at the top of their game, any ideas why they just gave up?

they couldn't make the margins that their parent company wanted & if you look at the financial reports of mobo makers for the last 9 months they are probably glad that they pulled the plug when they did.
I've heard a rumour that their facilities are still in use just churning out stuff for oem customers of the parent.