ABIT closing its doors on December 31st

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ABIT closing its doors on December 31st

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ABIT closing its doors on December 31st
About the time when TweakTown started pumping out technology content, ABIT produced the best motherboards on the market. They always included the very latest in technologies, they were the first to create a jumperless motherboard and were the pioneers of creating the overclocking revolution.

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.

Computer enthusiasts join me in bidding farewell to the once mighty strong ABIT – they are going to close the company once and for all on December 31st.
It's sad how fast they went downhill. Their Motherboards use to be renown. i had a IC7-G MAXII. I paid $140 back in 2005 for it and sold it 2 years later on e-bay for $115. Next to the Epox board I had before it, it was probably one of the best AGP boards I ever owned.
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Makes you wonder whos next.....hopefully not DFI lol
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yea, crazy. but they were bought out and kind of became irrevelent. Nothing cutting edge but not basement pricing.
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Rarely has a buyout been good for a company. I am sad as well.
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Well in that case we will have to see what happens to GM when they show they cannot improve within 90 days.... or wait a minute... yeah I sure now, Chrysler wont show improvement :lol
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I highly doubt that there is much improvement in any of their situations unless there is a major push for fuel efficiency.
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That's sad! I still have my ABIT NF7-S running to this day! I just re-overclocked my 2100+ the other day - 167 FSB X 13! almost 2.2 GHz!

Think I need to upgrade yet?? LMAO!!!!
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