ABIT Closing Down

[Emabulator]

A few months ago we heard (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62296) that one of the pioneers of overclocking, ABIT, had left the motherboard market. Now TweakTown is reporting (http://www.tweaktown.com/news/10853/exclusive_abit_closing_its_doors_on_december_31st/index.html) that ABIT will be closing down the company on December 31st.

A few years ago now, ABIT started its shocking fall from the top. Its management were excused and charged for bad financial practices, key staff walked away from the company, engineers jumped shipped – ABIT, as we knew it, would never to be the same as it once were.

Fast forward to this year and ABIT were left with a single product line to try and keep the company from collapsing – digital picture frames with the ability to print. They didn’t work out as planned, there were rumors of ABIT re-entering the graphics card market once again, but those rumors didn’t eventuate.Too bad, I loved their BH6 motherboard back when we were overclocking the hell out of our Celeron 300As. Combine that with a Voodoo2 SLI 12 MB setup and you had the killer rig for Quake and Unreal.

[Demo_Boy]

So who is the good company for a motherboard now?

[Emabulator]

So who is the good company for a motherboard now?I've had good luck with ASUS boards.

[Noiz]

Yeah I've always used ASUS. I always manage to find something I don't like about their boards, but every time I try a different company I come away highly disappointed.

[Xed]

Another one for ASUS, although I've had good luck with MSI boards lately as well.

[ElektroDragon]

ABIT has had terrible reliability issues with their boards since 2001. They ruined their 90s rep, and I say good riddance!!

[Syl]

Asus is whom i'd prefer to use for motherboards. Gigabyte is a good second choice. I actually have been using a lot of ASrock for my low-end machines. They're quirky, weird, but they work well enough if you're on a massive budget.

[normyk]

Too bad, I loved their BH6 motherboard back when we were overclocking the hell out of our Celeron 300As. Combine that with a Voodoo2 SLI 12 MB setup and you had the killer rig for Quake and Unreal.
Ah, those were the days. Best bang-fer-yer-buck system I ever built and damn did unreal look fine as hell on it. They've been headed downhill for years, but it's still a sad day for the old school. Thank goodness we've got Asus and Gigabyte.

[92miata]

currently using gigabyte, but my x38 board has been a beta bios for over 6 months now. there support seems there, but without a final bios, i get the feeling they have dumped my board. i have my extreme q6850 running at 3.33 stock so i can't complain.

but my next board will be asus or msi.....:)

[MrE]

Asus updates their BIOS quite frequently, and I've had great stability with their Intel chipset based motherboards. EVGA's are good for Nvidia chipset motherboards.

Abit has been flushing their motherboard business down the tubes for well over a year. Both board quality as well as their customer service issues and unstable BIOS releases caused Abit to drop their premium prices in order to complete with the likes of Asus/Gigabyte/MSI. Its too bad because at one point Abit was THE vendor for motherboards. Asus was only secondary if you couldn't find an Abit board in stock.