Second-tier motherboard maker Abit is reportedly concidering phasing out of the motherboard market after evaluating its shipment performance of Intel 4 series motherboards, according to channel sources. Abit, howerver, maintains it does not know anything about the speculation and will continue to develop motherboard products.Abit's has failed to meet the expectations of parent company Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) in its ability to compete with fellow second-teir makers in terms of performance, or first-tier makers in terms of pricing in the mid-range and entry-level market, and so the company is evaluating whether to quit the market and start developing other products for the Abit brand, noted the sources.
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It will be a shame if Abit give up making mobos. I'm a computer builder and I can say that the Abit are build better than pretty much everything else. I build all my small PC with Asus, ASRock or MSI, but the big one get a Abit mobos.
It will be a shame if Abit give up making mobos. I'm a computer builder and I can say that the Abit are build better than pretty much everything else. I build all my small PC with Asus, ASRock or MSI, but the big one get a Abit mobos.
MSI is BY FAR BETTER than ECS. There is no comparison. NONE!
You're wasting your money changing your mobos just for that reason.
You're wasting your money changing your mobos just for that reason.
I disagree. First of all, he did not say he changed his MB he said he cleaned it. Yes cleaning a PC from dust is very beneficial. I use my air compressor every few months to blow out the dust inside my computer. It removes dust on the fan blades and dust on the circuit board which can cause the chips to get hot. Just look inside your computer and look at all the dust that builds up inside the cpu cooler/fins. I also use it to remove dust from inside the power supply. There is no way you can eliminate dust just using filters. I have been building computers and using this technique for 10 years and have never had an issue from this. Saying not to touch anything is a bit overdone. I recommend using caution, unplug the computer from the wall and remove any static electricity from your body.
Here's what he said:
Good for you. Me I prefer to work at keeping the dust outside.
Here's what he said:
Good for you. Me I prefer to work at keeping the dust outside.
Like I said just be careful when working inside your PC. What kind of filters are you using that you can keep all the dust out. My house has alot of dust and I can't imagine any filter system keeping all the dust out of my PC. Oh well, whatever works for you. NP. Have a nice day!
Last edited by paesan on 27 May 2008 - 17:13
Radish™
1. AV8 BIOS 25. They released a BIOS that bricked every board it was installed in. Even ECS didn't do that.
2. I bought an IP35-E (a compromise because the Gigabyte P35-DS3L I wanted was unavailable) and I suspect it had a DIMM socket that was not just defective, but burned out each stick installed in one socket. (It's not normal to get two bad two-stick kits in a row, is it?
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