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Sad, abit is leaving us

This sucks.. looks like Gigabyte and DFI get my money now.. as I refuse to buy anything ASUS.


 
Sad news indeed. I've been an Abit fan for quite some time. I just sold my IC7-G a couple months ago. That was a great board. I still have an NF7-S v2 that was a really fun board as well.

Sorry to see these guys go. It's even sadder to see that the corporate virus that is so common in US companies (buy 'em, bleed 'em and sell 'em for more than they're worth) is invading our Asian brothers.


 
It's a sad day indeed :(

/me hug his 2 IP35-E promising to not get rid of them...

 
I've only owned two Abit boards throughout the years. I don't remember which board it was but it was one of the Slot 1 BE6's with the 440BX chipset. It was a damn nice board. The other is an IP35-e. It's sad to see that the great running IP35 series board didn't bring Abit back.

I also agree with staying away from Asus boards. I haven't been using them for years after the number of problems I've had with them and I've probably had fewer problems than most. The higher price of Asus boards used to guarantee you performance, stability and compatibility and I don't think that has been the case in recent years.

Gigabyte has the honor of being in three of my four multicore systems and as long as they keep the prices low with good features and stability like I have personally witnessed with these boards, I will stick with them.

 
Man, this is not good. Just as Ford has Toyota, Boeing has AirBus, Intel has AMD, and infinum.These are only a small part of the world's "free market" economy. Any slight to a customers choice is IMO bad, bad and double bad. There's suppose to be competition in a free market because competition improves the product (yeah, I know, economy 101).

I'm not knocking Microsoft, but look at the prices of Microsoft's software, they can price it anywhere they want and shove a bad product down the consumers throat because theres no competition. It's pretty hard to deny Microsoft is a definite strong world leader in the software department (especially the OS department) and not because their software is so great, but because they hold such a large share of the worldwide market and the main reason for that is "no competition" for the majority of boxen out there. I'm not putting Mac 's OS's down, I always thought of Mac as being "high range", kinda' expensive and kinda' proprietary or the Linux OS's, IMHO Linux is just not ready yet to be a desktop orientated software alternative, not yet anyway, but maybe soon ;)

I just hope this is just BS and maybe someone got their wires crossed, although I doubt it. (could be "blowing smoke" or "Bullshite", your choice)

BTW, would someone please explain the "tier" thing to me (you know, top tier, middle tier, bottom tier, fishing pier (oops :p)

FOLD ON!

 
You have to remember that a few years back Abit was all but gone anyway. The only reason the company stayed around was due to being bought out. Also, at the time Abit was originally going under, it did not have a motherboard really worth a damn compared to many of the other choices out there. The boards had nothing going for them. Stability was not there, performance and overclocking (Abit's trademark) were definitely not there and the prices did not match the boards.

If anything, the buyout back then kept Abit afloat for longer than it would have otherwise and Abit was able to bring out some quality motherboards again, at least for a while.

 
jws2346 said:
BTW, would someone please explain the "tier" thing to me (you know, top tier, middle tier, bottom tier, fishing pier (oops :p)
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Tier 1= top tier, largest in the world. Foxconn, and I believe Asus and Gigabyte are here. I think ECS is as well- remember, this is determined by volume.
Tier 2= middle of the road. Abit was here, and I believe MSI and DFI are as well.
Tier 3= small fish. Think Biostar, Asrock (considered separate from Asus), etc

http://www.digitimes.com/Backgrounders/Industry/Overview.asp?datePublish=2003/09/22&pages=M1&seq=400
 
Damn, Thats too bad. I love my IP35-E board. Never have had a problem with it, great overclocker too.


 
mavalpha said:
Tier 1= top tier, largest in the world. Foxconn, and I believe Asus and Gigabyte are here. I think ECS is as well- remember, this is determined by volume.
Tier 2= middle of the road. Abit was here, and I believe MSI and DFI are as well.
Tier 3= small fish. Think Biostar, Asrock (considered separate from Asus), etc

http://www.digitimes.com/Backgrounders/Industry/Overview.asp?datePublish=2003/09/22&pages=M1&seq=400
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Seriously thanks mavalpha :D
Do you think DFI or MSI will hit the bricks also? I sure hope not. I kinda' like DFI. I'm not a fanboi of DFI or any mobo company. I just try to get the best that's in my price range. ;)

FOLD ON!

 
Man so many good memories with abit boards through the years. And as many of you have said, I'm pretty much done with asus boards right now too. DFI's are just as pricey but I can appreciate them since they push the tech boundaries with their tons of bios options and features like their digial PWM designs. I've built a fair amount of machines around gigabyte boards too and they were always solid. MSI hasn't been bad for me either but those machines weren't for overclockers.
 
Too bad. My NF7-S v2 was a great mobo before it was killed, and I still use my NF-8 v2 in my fserv
 
My sig rig is still happily notfred folding with a 20% overclock on the IC7-G and P4 2.4


 
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