Where did ABIT go wrong and why are MSI still going

[Reality|Bites]

I really miss the old days of building PC's if was more fun back then, buying the cheaper AMD boards and CPU's for less than a P4 combined, Corsair with their DDR1 PC3200 BH5 chips etc.

Have I just got old or what's changed in the market that's not getting me excited about anything anymore?
Just seen it all? all the marketing BS told 20 years ago still getting used today...still chasing that dragon that can't be caught?

The most fun I've had was with the ABIT NF7-S and the mobile AXP 2500+ along with a GF4 Ti4400 ( ATI Radeon 9700 times)

I'm just bored thinking back.

 

[Reality|Bites]

I'm just sour from my experience with MSI...three motherboards in a row....and they were out lol. Well my first MSI motherboard was ok with my Athlon xp1900+ (KT ARU or something or other)
Then I went with the Athlon64 2600+ maybe with an MSI some name Platinum board and and to reset the bios everyday to get it to boot, got sick of that and bough the same board again and it was fine for a month or so and then same thing...
New Athlon64 boards came out and I went for MSI again with the fancy copper one piece heatpipe heatsink for NB and SB...same story fine for a bit then had to reset the bios to boot.