Abit to enter low-price motherboard market as well!

[Wombat]

Gurm hit it pretty well. Abit just doesn't design quality equipment. Lots of people here have had KT7x problems and explosions. Abit seems to <I>very</I> carefully hand-pick the the boards that they send to reviewers, but buying one of their boards as a consumer is akin to Russian roulette.

[Dr Mordrid]

Taking a look at an old BX6 I removed from the wifes system to an ECS K7S6A is an education. The BX6's caps are tiny and ECS's are garbage cans

Dr. Mordrid

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by Tempest
Aside for the fact that my Abit KA7-100 didn't run any memory higher than 133 MHz Normal settings, had a damn noisy AGP bus and blew its capacitors a couple of months after its 1-year guarantee ended, there was nothing MUCH wrong with it...

Now I have an Epox 8K3A+ and to quote an old song from U96: "Call it love, call it sin, it's the state I'm in - feels like in heaven"

ps. But I think Abit must have learned something from the KA7 and KT7 days.

I never had any problem with my KA7.

amish

[The PIT]

Like I said read forums and find out what people say and I don't mean just this one. I can't comment on the newer boards becuase I don't have the money or time too go out and buy them. I've had one good Abit board and one very very very shit Abit board which nearly everyone complained about.
Reviewers seldom have the boards long enough for problems to arise. Like I also said some sites are sponsored so you don't bite the hand that feeds.

[Wombat]

I wish I could dig up past threads, but with search gone I can't link to all the troubleshooting we've done here on the forums that came down to problems with Abit. At least 2 or three people here have had the caps explode/leak.

[Dr Mordrid]

Not to mention problems with low or poorly regulated voltage to the AGP slot. Add that one to the list too.

Dr. Mordrid

[Jammrock]

I never had any problem with my KA7.

My KA7 blew up 2 months after the warranty expired. Biostar's are just as bad, if not worse than Abit in my experience.

As I'm sure I've said a million times, I use Asus almost exclusively. I've started to dive into MSI as a less expensive alternative. So far it hasn't been too bad, but once I got the problems fixed it's been running like a champ.

Jammrock

[rugger]

As much as I would love to try Abit boards for myself and find out how crap they are,

I am going to trust the boards on this one, Abit boards are overpriced AND not very reliable.

[Novdid]

I haven't had these problems as I tend to keep myself to either ASUS or MSI. I will probably get an Epox next time I upgrade sometime in the future, they seem to make good boards lately.

[Edit] And one other thing, ATI's latest drivers(the ones after 6025, especially the 6071) are actually really solid, atleast in the same league as Nvidia's if you ask me. I run W2K.

[Dr Mordrid]

I have been sticking to Asus, ECS (SiS 735/745) & Gigabyte.

Dr. Mordrid

[Wombat]

I think my Epox board is great. I haven't kept up with their latest offerings since I wasn't planning on upgrading. I had an MSI before that, which was fabulous, but they didn't have a good KT133A offering when I did my last upgrade.

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by Jammrock
My KA7 blew up 2 months after the warranty expired. Biostar's are just as bad, if not worse than Abit in my experience.

As I'm sure I've said a million times, I use Asus almost exclusively. I've started to dive into MSI as a less expensive alternative. So far it hasn't been too bad, but once I got the problems fixed it's been running like a champ.

Jammrock

hehe...i've used 2-3 Biostars without any problems so far.

amish

[Sasq]

Pace, my SA6R was running fine with the raid but then it mysteriously started playing up. Thankyou again to abits quality selection of Capacitors - have a peak to see if they are begining to leak

Dan

[PeTe]

Originally posted by RichL

Matrox drivers might not be the fastest and best optimized ones around, BUT, crucially BUT, I've never had a Matrox videocard driver that FUBAR'ed my system, unlike the ATI Radeon VE drivers I used.
For the record, I swapped the Radeon VE for an old 3dfx Voodoo3000. Not only is quality better, the drivers are stable and actually work with everything tried.

Wohoo, when was this.. 2 years ago ? Radeon VE's blow dog, btw.

Any Driver past 6025 from ATI has been ROCK SOLID for me @ XP. No complaints what so ever. Currently using Official 6071 + the new OpenGL-driver [ or like ati calls it.. SOF2 fix. ].

PeTe

[Technoid]

Well,
I have just experienced a Abit

3 leaking and 2 blown capasitors