Abit Shuts Down Permanently

[Quiksilver]

We all knew they closed their doors on motherboard manufacturing and trying to get into consumer electronics. Well, it didn't pan out... and their gone for good.

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[BladeVenom]

I wonder if someone will buy the name.

 

[nerp]

Two out of three mobo makers in my sig are gone. :/

 

[octopus41092]

Originally posted by: nerp
Two out of three mobo makers in my sig are gone. :/

Must be a sign.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Sad. Have fond memories of the BH6 and BM6.

Farewell...

 

[exar333]

They had planned to support the MBs for a few more years, will that be out of the question now? I wonder if the users will be out in the cold now..

 

[MedicBob]

Liked Abit boards.

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: ExarKun333
They had planned to support the MBs for a few more years, will that be out of the question now? I wonder if the users will be out in the cold now..

afaik in the US warranty work had already moved to USI's facility so I would imagine that continuing.

 

[Texun]

Sorry to hear they didn't make it. I've owned many great Abit boards, and when I heard they were doing to shift their production away from boards I was hoping to see them surface and do well with other products.

 

[SanDiegoPC]

Originally posted by: octopus41092

Originally posted by: nerp
Two out of three mobo makers in my sig are gone. :/

Must be a sign.

LOL

 

[Ratman6161]

Originally posted by: Heidfirst

Originally posted by: ExarKun333
They had planned to support the MBs for a few more years, will that be out of the question now? I wonder if the users will be out in the cold now..

afaik in the US warranty work had already moved to USI's facility so I would imagine that continuing.

I don't know who is actually running it, but their web site is still up and running and you can still download bios's (though I assume there will never be any new ones) manuals, drivers, etc.

But its funny there is nothing at all on the site that lets on they are no longer in business.

 

[MegaWorks]

This is really sad, thanks to them overclocking is what it is today. Abit you will always be the pioneers of overclocking in my book.

 

[ihyagp]

Sad day. These idome speakers are awesome.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I had fond memories of 1st overclocking with the BX6 rev2. Then moved on to my 1st multi-processor unit in the BP6. 2 celeron CPU's overclocked to 550MHz. Those were the days.

I know why they tanked, I tried some of there boards about a year or so ago and they suck. I forget now which one I got, but it had absolutely no overclocking features in the BIOS. No BIOS update and it wouldn't work with any of the tools that came on the CD. I returned it and picked up a Gigabyte board and haven't looked back.

 

[zerogear]

Originally posted by: nerp
Two out of three mobo makers in my sig are gone. :/

If Biostar does close their doors, I demand you buy Apple.