According to the latest news on the web, the well known motherboard manufacturer abit, once a leading provider of high-performance motherboards and video cards, will close doors forever in the month to come. Now we all know that the company halted the production of its motherboards, but it was never meant to close doors forever. Instead, abit was to move into the consumer electronics market with products like digital picture frames and mobile internet devices. Yes, but no one thought of the world economic crisis. HEXUS.net reports that abit's parent company USI has now decided to pull abit out of the channel market entirely. abit's marketing director Thore Welling commented:If this information confirms, the whole liquidation of abit should be finished in around a month.

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#1 h3llb3nd4

Man, that sucks...even though I never liked abit, but it is sad that we are losing companies that easily. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 19:47 Reply

#2 Dehx

w00t! Good riddance... had nothing but issues with your crappy Intel boards. Rest in pieces.. chugga.:)



On a more serious note, I hope this news doesn't have a negative effect on the market in that other small mobo mfgs like DFI or Foxconn, etc will go under. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 19:48 Reply

#3 mrhuggles

i think i only liked the abit bh6, altho i really did like it alot. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 19:51 Reply

#4 Yukikaze

I love my Abit I-N73HD board. Perfect little OC'er in mATX form....Dang. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 19:55 Reply

#5 JrRacinFan

Served 5k and counting ... Later Abit. Always loved your hardware but hated your lack of bios releases (or bios releases that broke things). Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 19:58 Reply

#6 h3llb3nd4

Foxconn & DFI are my heroes! (even though I don't use their product)

They're Taiwanese and so am I!LOL

Hope they don't suffer huge loses... Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 19:59 Reply

#7 ShogoXT

/salute

Abit was my favorite mobo company for a while there.

Have a still kicking NF7-S working.

Also have a IB9, but it kinda let me down in a couple ways, but im sure its my fault + the P965 chipset.



RIP ABIT... Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 20:06 Reply

#8 Haytch

Been a long time comming. Dragged on way too long. Exhausted all avenues.



R.I.P Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 20:11 Reply

#9 timta2

Dehx w00t! Good riddance... had nothing but issues with your crappy Intel boards. Rest in pieces.. chugga.:)



On a more serious note, I hope this news doesn't have a negative effect on the market in that other small mobo mfgs like DFI or Foxconn, etc will go under. Foxcon is not a "small mobo mfg". They make boards for so many companies it is insane. Foxcon is not a "small mobo mfg". They make boards for so many companies it is insane. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 20:24 Reply

#10 Silverel

Looks like natural selection does work after all. At least their government didn't try dumping tons of money to keep them floating. In an oversaturated market, losing one company leaves market space for others to grab hold of and prosper with. I'd rather lose the little/poor quality ones, than a big/good quality one. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 20:25 Reply

#11 csendesmark

Rest In Pieces :D Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 20:31 Reply

#12 Necrofire

Well, I could never find motherboard drivers for one of their socket 939 mobos, so I guess it'll be impossible to get that rig working now...



oh well, my plans of a seperate folding machine didn't go so well with that thing's agp slot. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 20:47 Reply

#13 MilkyWay

all these different brands and choices of motherboard to many if you ask me



over saturation to the max





if motherboards have good features and a competitive price ill buy it dosnt matter what brand as long as its is the above and has decent support



to many types of graphics card also, i think we could eliminate about 40% of cards, now another re branding the gtx255 a gtx 250 with more shaders LOL



or a new dvd drive that has exactly the same specs as every other dvd drive



rip abit you gave it a good go but f'k up in the end Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 20:50 Reply

#14 to6ko91

rip Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 20:58 Reply

#15 suraswami

hmm, I remember seeing a news that Abit got back well few months ago and now this news. Damn! I miss their good old Japanese capacitor boards. They rocked. Socket A, Socket 754 and now my AM2 board, they rock in OCing department but not the best bios tho.



bye bye Abit. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 21:04 Reply

#16 steelkane

my bh6 still runs,, Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 21:37 Reply

#17 Polarman

No more Bios updates for those who owns Abit mobos. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 21:45 Reply

#18 a111087

i still have abit mobo and 2 abit wifi's (which were only $5 after mail in rebate and they are quite good) Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 22:11 Reply

#19 Esse

Yukikaze I love my Abit I-N73HD board. Perfect little OC'er in mATX form....Dang. The AMD version of that was a PITA. Owned three of them and they all died within 3 months. Got one replaced and only one DIMM slot and one of my CPU's worked on it.



The layout was different to every other company (the pciex1 was switched with the pciex16) so allowed for a large gpu cooler and PCI soundcard. Wasn't worth the trouble :shadedshu The AMD version of that was a PITA. Owned three of them and they all died within 3 months. Got one replaced and only one DIMM slot and one of my CPU's worked on it.The layout was different to every other company (the pciex1 was switched with the pciex16) so allowed for a large gpu cooler and PCI soundcard. Wasn't worth the trouble :shadedshu Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 22:21 Reply

#20 RevengE

I had an Abit board awhile back it was not to shabby. It's sad to see all these companys closing. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 22:25 Reply

#21 A Cheese Danish

I didn't really like their products much...

But yet again, another company gone...wonder who's next... Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 22:27 Reply

#22 BrooksyX

timta2 Foxcon is not a "small mobo mfg". They make boards for so many companies it is insane. lol foxconn has products on every single mothreboard. Look at all the i/o connectors on the back of your motherbaord. they will say foxconn on it. Take apart an xbox 360 and look at the motherboard. Foxconn's logo is stamped everywhere. Foxconn may not make that many retail motherboards but they make tons of components and tons of motherboards for oem pc builders like dell and hp. Foxconn is no where close to being a small company. lol foxconn has products on every single mothreboard. Look at all the i/o connectors on the back of your motherbaord. they will say foxconn on it. Take apart an xbox 360 and look at the motherboard. Foxconn's logo is stamped everywhere. Foxconn may not make that many retail motherboards but they make tons of components and tons of motherboards for oem pc builders like dell and hp. Foxconn is no where close to being a small company. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 22:30 Reply

#23 R_1

RIP Abit. Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 22:34 Reply

#24 spearman914

A Cheese Danish I didn't really like their products much...

But yet again, another company gone...wonder who's next... PC Chips. They suck anyway. lol PC Chips. They suck anyway. lol Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 22:36 Reply

#25 LittleLizard

what a bad end for such a great company. at least part of their blood is alive in the dfi lanpartys.



anyway, Rest In Peace Universal Abit :cry: Posted on Mar 4th 2009, 22:54 Reply