Sad to see Abit going...

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So a moment of silence for dieing old friend. :wine:

 

[us3rnotfound]

IDGAF

 

[ub3rnewb]

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
IDGAF

QFT.
We don't need to pay $100 extra for our motherboards to say Fatal1ty on them.

 

[Killrose]

Maybe nVidia will buy Abit and put ULi chipsets on them

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: ub3rnewb

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
IDGAF

QFT.
We don't need to pay $100 extra for our motherboards to say Fatal1ty on them.

here here...
though their non haxorl337 boards were not bad at all.
oh well sucks for them.

 

[Pocatello]

That's sad, I have bought a few Abit motherboards, and they have all served me well.

 

[Wentelteefje]

The latest ones weren't that good anymore... They no longer lived up to their name of "super-overclockers"... Unless you shell out the extra bucks for Fatal1ty stuff...

Too bad, still have an old Abit mobo for my PIII, and it has never ever given me any worries...

 

[HO]

I am surfing the Web as I write this on my Abit BM6 based system. Stuck a Powerleap upgrade CPU in it about 2 years ago (Tualatin Celery 1.2G--the one with the large cache). It's still a damn good machine. I upgraded to a X2 4400+ system in November and, except when I'm massaging huge files in Photoshop, the old beast is just not *that* much slower.

 

[n7]

Damn...

The Abit AN8 Ultra was one mobo i was considering for when i switch to PCI-e... maybe not anymore.

 

[Zap]

My wife's been happy with her Abit KN8 board that I bought for her recently. It seems a decent overclocker. The Abit brand name still has a lot of clout so I'd think they would find a buyer.

 

[naughty001]

yeah - some of those abit mobo's are still pretty decent - its a shame that abit used the incorrect marketting strategy - too much emphasis on uguru and using old fatal1ty for advertising and also placing too much emphasis on unneccesary items within the bundle that nobody would use instead of just creating boards that enthusisasts would like to use

i still have fond memories of my nf7s v2 and im typing this on an IC7G with a prescott P4 that i have which belongs to a friend - so the older abit mobo's have been good to me - i would have loved to try out the fatal1ty but i just got a asus instead cos it was available at the time and my abit supplier didnt have stock of the abit mobo

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: n7
Damn...

The Abit AN8 Ultra was one mobo i was considering for when i switch to PCI-e... maybe not anymore.

I was looking at this board also, but Newegg jacked the price from ~$114 to ~$130 so I'll pass for now. EDIT...after reading that article, think I'll pass on ABIT entirely.

 

[SynthDude2001]

That's pretty sad, they made some awesome boards back in the day. I just upgraded from a NF7-S 2.0 that served me very well for over two years (still the best AXP board in my mind), and years before that I had a BM6 for cheap old school Celeron overclocking. I can't say that any of their boards in the post-AthlonXP era have interested me all that much though, at least not compared to some of the others on the market these days.

 

[Nirach]

I heard they were circling the pan a while back. I blame the Fatal1ty crap they crank out. Personally, you couldn't pay me to have his name on my componants.

I had an Abit board back in the early days of Socket A. Fried the damn northbridge, but it served me well for a good year or there abouts.

 

[Ketchup]

I hate to see that as well. My IT7 and NF7-M were some of my favorite boards. Extremely stable, and beastly overclockers.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Syndicate
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So a moment of silence for dieing old friend. :wine:

Yeah, thought thye had a great product in the NF7 line. As you can see still using my NF7-S v2.

I heard a while back that the engineer behind the NF7 , who was in to consumer OC ability, had a spat and left for DFI. Haven't heard a lot of good stuff about them and OCing since. Could be just BS rumours. Don't personally know if there's any truth to it.

Fern

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Budarow

Originally posted by: n7
The Abit AN8 Ultra was one mobo i was considering for when i switch to PCI-e... maybe not anymore.

I was looking at this board also, but Newegg jacked the price from ~$114 to ~$130 so I'll pass for now. EDIT...after reading that article, think I'll pass on ABIT entirely.

Newegg has it now for $105.

Originally posted by: Fern
I heard a while back that the engineer behind the NF7 , who was in to consumer OC ability, had a spat and left for DFI. Haven't heard a lot of good stuff about them and OCing since. Could be just BS rumours. Don't personally know if there's any truth to it.

Wasn't it Oskar Wu?

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Zap
Wasn't it Oskar Wu?

Could've been. But my memory is starting suck.... I can't even remember where I read it- here, nForcersHQ or over at the Abit boards.

Happy New Year!

Fern