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Is ABIT still a good brand?
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Nenu
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Abit are getting out of motherboard mfr, you take your own risk on long term support.
Abit's gone. And your link is invalid.
http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15225
http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15225
Blitzrommel
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I'm surprised I didn't really know about this until now. What a shame. 
I considered them one of the best in the past.
I considered them one of the best in the past.Abit's quality has gone way down for the most part over the last couple of years (aside from pretty much only the IP35 boards), and the fact that they're out of the mobo business should tell you something as well. I'd go with a board from ASUS or Gigabyte instead.
vanilla_guerilla
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ip35 pro was ok. otherwise, no.
My IP35-Pro was a great board other then the uGuru issues. I remember when they were among the best. Ashame to see them go.
Blitzrommel
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Same here. My IP-35 Pro board's great. Though it'll be going out the door once I upgrade early next year.
Eggothewaffle
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:holds IP-35 Pro tightly:
...Where do I go now?
...Where do I go now?
denizenzero
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Honestly I would stay far away from ABIT they're getting out of the mobo business and their support seems non existent now. I've been trying to obtain a bios chip from them for a month or so now with no luck. I don't get any response from my e-mails their phone numbers don't work and last I checked their store where I could buy a BIOS instead of going through RMA is down.
This seems par for the course now based off their forums.
This seems par for the course now based off their forums.
AthlonXP
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Yeah it does suck, oh well. Life goes on gents, just like epox another good ocing mobo company bit the dust.
I had a few Epox boards in the past also. At one time Soyo had some nice boards. What ever happend to soltek?
AthlonXP
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I think they bit the dust, now is Soyo still around??
I heard SOYO wasn't doing motherboards anymore. I had their AMD platinum board. It ran great.
The Pharaoh
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Abit - yet another hardware company with rude, unresponsive couldn't-give-a-shit customer support. Take your money to those who stand behind their products.
Who now a days has good support? Ive heard bad about Abit, Asus, DFI...
I disagree about the quality going down & I've probably used more of their boards than virtually anyone else here.
They are getting out of the mobo business because they can't get a decent return on investment - they aren't the first to do so & they won't be the last either (especially if the suggestion that 75% of P45 mobo sales are Asus is true). Ultimately there are only going to be a couple of mega mobo builders & perhaps a few small others surviving in very specialist niches.
Astronomica
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I've never had an Abit motherboard that just worked the way it was supposed to. I've RMA'ed more of them then any other brand.
Aside from the IP35, can you name a single abit board released within the last four years that can match up to the IC7 series in terms of quality? I doubt it.
The AA8XE was quite good. I''m not 100% sure its' within the four year span but that was the board I used with my Pentium Model 540. It was a badass overclocker and extremely stable. It's the last good board of theirs I really used. The abit of old is gone and has been for some time. They've had a couple of good models but the bulk of their boards aren't even worth mentioning. You've got the abit Quad-GT and the IP35 Pro. Outside of those two I can't think of anything within the last two years they've put out that was worth a damn.
True. I'm not sure I would rate the AA8XE up with the IC7 series though.
True true... I had a few epox boards too.
Soltek was the shit in 2001-3 and after that I never heard about them ever again. Oh well. Soyo sucked back then.
I had an IS7 series board from the same time period. Stable for the 4 years I had it.
The IS7 was the i865 version of the IC7, and it was part of the same generation of boards. It doesn't count in this context.
That's what I said. IS7 series. I never said that the IS7 was the 875.... How does that not count, both boards were from the same time period?
Because they're nearly the same thing. I was making the point that past that generation, Abit haven't made any boards that could match up to the quality of the IC7 series. Providing an example of a board from the same time isn't really relevant to that.
Right... I was only stating that I had an IS7 from the same time and that it ran stable; that is all. So I do not see a problem with that as I was replying to your comment. Nothing more.
Only two Abit boards I owned... IC7-G and now IP35 Pro. I think both of them are great and left me with a good impression of Abit. If Abit is done with boards, there will be more good brands in the future. I would probably look at Asus next, but they always appear to be high in the price scale.
No problem, I'm just saying that your comment wasn't really relevant to the point I was making.
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Yeah, it's too bad Abit is getting out of the motherboard business. They were one of my favorites, ever since the BH6.
Given that I only really came back to Intel with C2D after using exclusively AMD for many years I have no reference of using an IC7 to judge by (I did have a DFI 975 & an Asus P4C800-E Dl though).
However:
AB9 QuadGT without doubt 1 of the top 965 mobos
IP35 series 1 of the top P35 series with the IP35 Pro having a good claim to being the best all round P35.
I-N73HD again will stand up to anything based on the same chipset
The AW9D series has an excellent reputation
As for AMD:
AM2+
A-S78H definitely 1 of the better 780Gs
AX78 quite possibly the best 770
AM2
nf-M2 nView (probably the overclockers mATX of it's generation) & AN-M2HD great mATX based on their respective chipsets
For mainstream AM2 I skipped those as they didn't really bring anything for me over 939 but the AN9 32X & KN9 series I'll give you appear to be merely average/good.
S939
AT8/AT8 32X - quite probably the best boards based on admittedly not great chipsets
AN8 32X - again certainly 1 of the top 2 mobos if not the best based on that chipset
AN8 series - again great mobos if you took the time to get to know them as indeed were the KN8s
In other words basically any chipset that they made a mobo on could easily stand comparison with any other based on the same chipset.
Of course with modern chipsets & highly integrated mobos using largely the same components you rarely get mobos that stand head & shoulders above another similar one in terms of performance so to a certain extent that's to be expected.
vanilla_guerilla
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evga, intel, and mushkin. this is in as far as getting an rma number and getting another part back in a timely manner. i have read that customer service is not a priority with most asian companies and it carries over to their north american departments. there are companies that can be almost hostlie to a tech support/customer support request, ie dfi and asus. there are others where you will get zero tech xupport, but the rma process is pretty good, ie msi, visiontech, foxconn. abit was one of those. rma process was streamlined, offered cross-ship, let you know up front that you would be getting a refurb, company tested board back.
we all know there are exceptions. please save the long sagas of misery with evga, etc. you know who you are.