The death of Abit

[Voodoo²]

Abit, once leading-edge maker of computer mainboards and other components, will cease to exist starting the first of January, 2009, as the owner of the legendary brand – Universal Scientific Industrial – is in the process of restructuring and cutting down the costs. :(

More info: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20081217051651_Abit_s_Death_Date_Reportedly_Set_31 st_of_December_2008.html

[gatecrasherlok]

That is such a shame, i liked their m/b's. They were indeed very sturdy and back then did not give me much grief tbh

[T_M]

Whenever a topic about Abit comes up, everyone speaks of great long distant memories of the "best mobo they ever OC'd".
What i dont get though is everyone feeling so bad about them going down - i mean wth have they produced in the last few years worth even buying?

[Shaggy]

Whenever a topic about Abit comes up, everyone speaks of great long distant memories of the "best mobo they ever OC'd".
What i dont get though is everyone feeling so bad about them going down - i mean wth have they produced in the last few years worth even buying?

IP35 was a good board.

Abit got screwed when Oskar went to DFI methinks.

[Spectrobozo]

I don't know, but my abit nf7-s 2.0 was great.
my last abit was a nf8 s754.

[Earzz]

I had a fatal1ty SLI (S939), man that board sucked.
But yeah the reason i ever bought a Abit was of the storys of the Socket A nf7-s era.
To bad my personal experience was pretty bad with them, still a pitty to see them go like this.

[Rattle]

my best 965 was the abit quad gt, abits p35's were awesome also.

[Rattle]

I had a fatal1ty SLI (S939), man that board sucked.
But yeah the reason i ever bought a Abit was of the storys of the Socket A nf7-s era.
To bad my personal experience was pretty bad with them, still a pitty to see them go like this.


in the athlon days abit was king, and they had some good intel mobos after that, everything abit did on a64 was garbage, most a64 mobos were garbage though...

[newls1]

The last Abit board for me was (and still works, and am using) Abit BE6-II 440BX Slot1 motherboard. First damn good OCing board Abit came out with. I have a PIII 700Coppermine CPU in it, and is a great internet machine for the kiddies. Also, for QuakeIII gaming, I have an old school 3D Banshee 16mb AGP card as-well.

[siggie]

BX6-2.0, KT7A-133 , KX7-333R , AN7 , AN8-32x , IP35-PRO , ????

[Calmatory]

BH6! Oh those were the days... Still having one.

[Solarfall]

Whenever a topic about Abit comes up, everyone speaks of great long distant memories of the "best mobo they ever OC'd".
What i dont get though is everyone feeling so bad about them going down - i mean wth have they produced in the last few years worth even buying?

very TRUE.. i had the abit x38 quad GT board, and it was just ok when it came to overclocking. the bios was extremely buggy and i was sooo happy to get rid of it.

[sokarul]

I liked my AT8 32x. But I'm not as extreme as you guys. I am using an IP35 Pro right now.

[dan7777]

ip35-e im useing now still keeps my q6600 3.8 rock solid bad news i guess.

[Spoiler]

THE BP6

One of the the best boards I ever had!

[xsbb]

IP35-PRO! Wow, one of the most stable/Overclockable boards you could buy at the time when the Core2Duo/Quad came out.

[kir4]

The melancholy of abit.
no jokes! it does give me a sad feeling.

Had good boards back than, and rly thought those times would come back.. they even announced some new AMD Boards..
My last board is an "ABIT AX78" for budge rigs. Did bought it 3 times no problems.. it even overclocked well.. not amazing but good for 60€
Rare orange color PCB (at least for AMD Boards)

Will miss abit!

[jam2k]

Shame, the NF7-S 2.0 was a nice board.

[DFI pit bull]

That is such a shame, i liked their m/b's. They were indeed very sturdy and back then did not give me much grief tbh

Very true, the NF7-S that I passed on to my friend years ago is still going strong and that's after I oc'd the fcuk out of it, and also had water go on it from a leaking waterblock and still it kept on ticking.

[DFI pit bull]

Shame, the NF7-S 2.0 was a nice board.

If there ever will be an overclockers museum then the NF7-S would take pride of place at the entrance.:D

[ownage]

IP35-PRO! Wow, one of the most stable/Overclockable boards you could buy at the time when the Core2Duo/Quad came out.

Yes, great and successful board.

I liked Uguru allot.

For me Abit meant strong board, maybe a bit flaky but I couldn't kill my ab9-pro. Not even with 2.55vNb for multiple hours.

I was hoping for Abit to make a come-back :(

[deathman20]

IP35-PRO! Wow, one of the most stable/Overclockable boards you could buy at the time when the Core2Duo/Quad came out.

Indeed loved that board... correction still love it, still have mine sitting in the closet waiting for a CPU to put into her.

[Easybeat]

If there ever will be an overclockers museum then the NF7-S would take pride of place at the entrance.:D

I personally would add the IP35-E, don't think I have owned a better bang per buck board as that. I know of someone who got a 100% OC using it and that is some going for a low end board.

[Bobsama]

IP35-E/IP35 Pro were great boards. What I'm going to miss is the excellent fan control, as compared to other manufacturers.

[[XC] riptide]

IC7-Max 3. Case closed. :D

[Reinvented]

Wasn't Abit's 975x pretty good too? I remember quite a few people were sporting it around here, because it clocked decently.

[P0gMoTho1n]

Wasn't Abit's 975x pretty good too? I remember quite a few people were sporting it around here, because it clocked decently.

Yep, the AW9D-Max, still have it running an E6600 for the young fella. Sexy beast with the flashing blue LED's, was a great overclocking mobo with C2D, very stable, lovely to work with. Shame to see Abit going

[HKPolice]

BP6, ahhhh those were the days. The 440BX chipset was godly too and I bet it pissed Intel off big time that Abit made the only dual socket 7 mobo that was compatible with Celerons, cutting in on Intel's server sales.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/bp6/default.asp

Check out that SINGLE PHASE PWM for each CPU ROFL.

[Sparky]

I like my IP35-E well enough, though they could have put some better cooling on it (PWM primarily since there is no aftermarket available for it).

[RPGWiZaRD]

Abit IP35 Pro isn't really that great board or then I'm simply used to better boards. It's currently my spare mobo, Gigabyte P35 DS4 which costed around same as IP35 Pro blows it out of water in overclockability in both FSB and RAM overclocking. Guess it would be useless to try and get it sold now. :D

[G80]

Old news

[xsbb]

Abit IP35 Pro isn't really that great board or then I'm simply used to better boards. It's currently my spare mobo, Gigabyte P35 DS4 which costed around same as IP35 Pro blows it out of water in overclockability in both FSB and RAM overclocking. Guess it would be useless to try and get it sold now. :D

Wasn't the IP-35 Pro out before the DS4 was even out?

Didn't the IP-35PRO come out around the time when the DS3 and RAM 1.8v compatibility problems were running rampant?

Correct me if i'm wrong :)

[C Stat B]

Yeah its a sad day (or it will be). The IC7 series was amazing. I have an IC7-G in my backup PC! :up:

[kiwi]

yep, that's sad. RIP so to say, I will never forget NF7 days :rolleyes:


Whenever a topic about Abit comes up, everyone speaks of great long distant memories of the "best mobo they ever OC'd".
What i dont get though is everyone feeling so bad about them going down - i mean wth have they produced in the last few years worth even buying?

That's the thing, legends are always remembered :D Like The Beetles or Elvis Presley for example ;)

[Glow9]

Abit IP35 Pro isn't really that great board or then I'm simply used to better boards. It's currently my spare mobo, Gigabyte P35 DS4 which costed around same as IP35 Pro blows it out of water in overclockability in both FSB and RAM overclocking. Guess it would be useless to try and get it sold now. :D

LOL the Abit IP35 pro thread is still going I think theres quite a few who'd challenge this haha.

[RADCOM]

I love my Ip35-E it just works well and hard. I also loved my Abit AV8 3rd Eye. Good old Abit, you will be missed along with the all time greats Epox and SoYo (sheds a tear lol)

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

idk the IP35 had a major issues with some traces easily breaking resulting in many dead-on-install boards. I had 3 that just would not post ever, but when I put the same parts in the DFI DK P35 after the 3rd board everything went off without a hitch....

[inCore]

Abit just never enjoyed the same reputation as Asus and Gigabyte when I was choosing my components. Hardware is often purchased on recommendations from others and if others won't recommend Abit, Abit has a problem.

[phelan1777]

Many of us had our virgin OC-ing cherry graced by a NF7-S 2.0.

So yes there is sadness in hearing of their demise.

Kind of like your first car, you will never forget it.

[YukonTrooper]

Still running an Abit NF7 (Nforce2) downstairs. Good board. Buh-bye Abit.

[chuck4456]

Wasn't Abit's 975x pretty good too? I remember quite a few people were sporting it around here, because it clocked decently.
The AW9 series was and is the best i975x motherboard. I'm typing this out using mine at this moment. It's overclocked 7 different CPUs, tested 12 sets of memory, and had 3 different Xfire arrangements. 5000 hours and still going strong. I currently have an E7300 installed, running 400x10/DDR2 1000.
I bought the very first IP35 PRO that Newegg ever sold and was one of the first 3 at ABIT Forums to have an IP35 PRO setup. The IP35 PRO is a fantastic motherboard. I built a total of 6 IP35 PRO systems. As far as I know, all still run great today and up until a few weeks ago I was still overclocking on the one that I have left. It's still good to go.
Other than the fact that they are great motherboards, I am sure that powering them all with power supplies made by PC POWER & COOLING were beneficial to their longevity as well.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Wasn't the IP-35 Pro out before the DS4 was even out?

Didn't the IP-35PRO come out around the time when the DS3 and RAM 1.8v compatibility problems were running rampant?

Correct me if i'm wrong :)

Well I dunno about dates but I picked up the DS4 board like a half year before I picked up the Abit board and picked up the DS4 board when P35 boards had recently been launched. I got the first revision 1.0 of the DS4 board and a newer revision of Abit board (2.1 I think). As far as I remember the P35 DS3, DS4 and DQ6 boards were released at pretty much same time and paid around 143 EUR for it from some german shop I think.


LOL the Abit IP35 pro thread is still going I think theres quite a few who'd challenge this haha.

My biggest issue with the board is is the lack of proper Micron D9 compatibility, I've tried 3 or 4 different kits (1x Team Xtreem D9GMH and 1x Cellshock D9GMH and 2x Cellshock D9GKX kits) on it and for all kits the overclock results were less than mediocre results for these sticks. Take for example the CellShock PC2-6400 kit that wouldn't do even ~DDR2-1150 stable at 2.25v. On the DS4 board it does like ~DDR2-1215 stable at 2.2v. Then the timings had to be very lose too with the Abit board or else it wouldn't be stable at a bit lower speeds either. My current CellShock PC2-8000 CL4 sticks does DDR2-1200 5-5-4-10 at 2.10~2.15v with subtimings I can go as low as I want, sub 25 TRFC possible etc. With abit board it was only barely stable enough at DDR2-1200 5-5-5-10 2.2v.

Then for FSB... DS4 does 550 FSB with NB voltage only 1-2 notches up in BIOS. Never tried going higher tho but there should be some headroom left, like 570~580 I'd imagine on medium NB voltage settings I could imagine. Abit IP35 Pro maxed out (talking stable FSB at 6x multi) at like 540~550 and that was with like ~1.50v for the NB, didn't wanna go higher than that.

Also with DS4 my 24/7 clock setting 500x8 require a lot less voltage, with Abit IP35 Pro I needed 1.4v for CPU, with DS4 I need 1.36v. However max frequency clock for the CPU is around the same and it starts eating voltage for breakfast when going over 4GHz so my old C0 E8400 is quite bad sample but mediocre back when I bought it. I'm not saying Gigabyte boards are flawless, the bios support could be a lot better but the board I have have been stable as a rock.

In short IP35 is fine for users that don't want to push their systems to the very limits, it's not really the board for extreme overclocking and RAM performance tweaking etc.

[GripS]

Bad news.... I used the IP35-E in a buddy's build not too long ago. For a budget board that thing was badass!!

I'd expect to see more news like this coming as well unfortunately. Lots of businesses pulling back and going belly up next year.

[randomizer]

Just look at the global site home page, it's all FunFab photo frames instead of motherboards.

[Nasgul]

I had a fatal1ty SLI (S939), man that board sucked.

To bad my personal experience was pretty bad with them, still a pitty to see them go like this.
Don't blame the brand..........

Blame the nFarce chipset and the "fatality" name behind.

It's a shame though, most (only 1 fella), if not all? only remember P35 boards when in fact, the only board worth of their superiority back in the days were the IC7 MAX3.

Except I luvd my AI7 and the IS7, both in 865PE flavor of course.

And pretty much it all went downhill from there.....

[ryboto]

I had a KR7-A Raid as my first board ever, and then went to an AT7 Max2, and finally an AT8 32x. My main system used an AN-M2, and it's still in use as a file server. I was a bit annoyed when I found out they were leaving the market, I always used their boards when i needed a new one, now I'm going to have to dabble with a new brand.

[Overgloc]

Abit got screwed when Oskar went to DFI methinks.

What he said!!

[askimo]

THE BP6

One of the the best boards I ever had!

I will second that

[dinos22]

Whenever a topic about Abit comes up, everyone speaks of great long distant memories of the "best mobo they ever OC'd".
What i dont get though is everyone feeling so bad about them going down - i mean wth have they produced in the last few years worth even buying?i agree
boards were ok but their bioses were :banana::banana::banana::banana:


IP35 was a good board.

Abit got screwed when Oskar went to DFI methinks.i tested a couple of these
:banana::banana::banana::banana: board
too finnicky and there was better stuff on the market easy

[ownage]

Abit is like Alfa-Romeo. You love it but deep down you know there's better stuff.

[road-runner]

Thats why they went under people were buying the better stuff...

[tiro_uspsss]

riptide;3507342']IC7-Max 3. Case closed. :D

+1! QFT! :yepp: :up: :cool:

[KoHaN69]

I've always hated Abit, and their customer service.
They are barely better than gigabyte/msi/asus

[Tulatin]

The NF7-S was really the DFI NF4 Lanparty board of it's day... The common link? Oskar Wu.

[JAWS]

My first overclocking mobo was KT7A. I learned how to vmod and oc a Duron 700. lol Epox...now Abit :(





Abit got screwed when Oskar went to DFI methinks.

yep that's when I made the switch to the Infinity from nf7-s

[safan80]

I had a bx6, bp6 and ka7. Their $25 rma fee was a joke. after all the caps on my Ka7 blew I left abit to rot.

[BulldogPO]

Sad :(
BH6 was my fist real board, then came BE6-II and load of others. My last Abit board was AG8 and on HTPC I90HD.
Why did Abit's story end like this?

[safan80]

Why did Abit's story end like this?

it's simple they went from leading to trying to keep up and got left behind.

[db87]

> The answer form Abit: USI will NOT close Abit (http://www.hardware.info/en-UK/news/ymiclJqawpuaapY/USI_will_NOT_close_Abit/)

[OSKAR_WU]

My first overclocking mobo was KT7A. I learned how to vmod and oc a Duron 700. lol Epox...now Abit :(
yep that's when I made the switch to the Infinity from nf7-s

The project I have work with are BX6 BX6R2 BH6 BP6 BE6-II BF6 KA7 KG7 KT7 KT7A KX7 KR7 KD7 AT7 IC7 but No NF7 and IC7-MAX3 ...

What makes ABIT(previous ABIT , not abit) going down is the financial problem and that's the only reason I choose to leave there ...

[safan80]

The project I have work with are BX6 BX6R2 BH6 BP6 BE6-II BF6 KA7 KG7 KT7 KT7A KX7 KR7 KD7 AT7 IC7 but No NF7 and IC7-MAX3 ...

What makes ABIT(previous ABIT , not abit) going down is the financial problem and that's the only reason I choose to leave there ...

nice work with the bx6 it lasted a long time for me back in the day.

[pphx459]

Look at sig!

[Earzz]

in the athlon days abit was king, and they had some good intel mobos after that, everything abit did on a64 was garbage, most a64 mobos were garbage though...

Yep i found that out myself, the hard way :shakes:

[Stanley Pain]

*fondly touches his ABIT NF2 board*

[Glow9]

Raise your hand if you'd be first in line for a Abit brand video card? I would be.

[MrMojoZ]

BP6, ahhhh those were the days. The 440BX chipset was godly too and I bet it pissed Intel off big time that Abit made the only dual socket 7 mobo that was compatible with Celerons, cutting in on Intel's server sales.


Socket 7 was long gone when that board was made. :D

[JayCop]

I have a IX38 Quad GT out for RMA right now with them. I really hope I get a replacement:shrug:. I wish I had known they were going out of business when I bought the board:shakes:.

[Particle]

I had a friend buy an Abit BH6 when they were hot :banana::banana::banana::banana:. It was an expensive mobo at the time at what...$120?

[Voodoo²]

Raise your hand if you'd be first in line for a Abit brand video card? I would be.

I would be too! I owned a R9550XTurbo-Guru. Great card for the price, good quality and extra features that even today cards doesn´t have. I have an Abit AirPace Wi-Fi also. Is a PCI-e x1 card and works okay and can be used in SFF PC.

Okay Xbit-labs were wrong. Abit is just going to stop making motherboards. Wich is almost the same for people like us.

[JAWS]

The project I have work with are BX6 BX6R2 BH6 BP6 BE6-II BF6 KA7 KG7 KT7 KT7A KX7 KR7 KD7 AT7 IC7 but No NF7 and IC7-MAX3

Every one of those mobos I would consider legendary. I had KT7A, KX7 (great), KR7, KD7! :up:

[moogle]

Boy I'm glad I didn't listen to Anandtech when they made the IP35-Pro editors choice a while ago :D

[moose517]

so should i be worried that i just bought an ab9 pro for my home server, i haven't had any issues with it thus far, worked fine out of the box.

[chuck4456]

so should i be worried that i just bought an ab9 pro for my home server, i haven't had any issues with it thus far, worked fine out of the box.
Most of the builders that had issues with the IP35 PRO didn't know how to properly build a PC to begin with.

[TSXmike]

sad news...

[Glow9]

Most of the builders that had issues with the IP35 PRO didn't know how to properly build a PC to begin with.

agreed considering people are getting Q9950s and such to run on them and keep these babies going.

[ZhaoYun]

Abit used to be my #1 motherboard choice for years. :sofa:

[villa1n]

ip35-e im useing now still keeps my q6600 3.8 rock solid bad news i guess.

me too ;) But as with all things, life goes on. :P

[Vargher Warg]

Very sad news! :(

[aztec]

Well I dunno about dates but I picked up the DS4 board like a half year before I picked up the Abit board and picked up the DS4 board when P35 boards had recently been launched. I got the first revision 1.0 of the DS4 board and a newer revision of Abit board (2.1 I think). As far as I remember the P35 DS3, DS4 and DQ6 boards were released at pretty much same time and paid around 143 EUR for it from some german shop I think.



My biggest issue with the board is is the lack of proper Micron D9 compatibility, I've tried 3 or 4 different kits (1x Team Xtreem D9GMH and 1x Cellshock D9GMH and 2x Cellshock D9GKX kits) on it and for all kits the overclock results were less than mediocre results for these sticks. Take for example the CellShock PC2-6400 kit that wouldn't do even ~DDR2-1150 stable at 2.25v. On the DS4 board it does like ~DDR2-1215 stable at 2.2v. Then the timings had to be very lose too with the Abit board or else it wouldn't be stable at a bit lower speeds either. My current CellShock PC2-8000 CL4 sticks does DDR2-1200 5-5-4-10 at 2.10~2.15v with subtimings I can go as low as I want, sub 25 TRFC possible etc. With abit board it was only barely stable enough at DDR2-1200 5-5-5-10 2.2v.

Then for FSB... DS4 does 550 FSB with NB voltage only 1-2 notches up in BIOS. Never tried going higher tho but there should be some headroom left, like 570~580 I'd imagine on medium NB voltage settings I could imagine. Abit IP35 Pro maxed out (talking stable FSB at 6x multi) at like 540~550 and that was with like ~1.50v for the NB, didn't wanna go higher than that.

Also with DS4 my 24/7 clock setting 500x8 require a lot less voltage, with Abit IP35 Pro I needed 1.4v for CPU, with DS4 I need 1.36v. However max frequency clock for the CPU is around the same and it starts eating voltage for breakfast when going over 4GHz so my old C0 E8400 is quite bad sample but mediocre back when I bought it. I'm not saying Gigabyte boards are flawless, the bios support could be a lot better but the board I have have been stable as a rock.

In short IP35 is fine for users that don't want to push their systems to the very limits, it's not really the board for extreme overclocking and RAM performance tweaking etc.

All of those are relatively minor gripes about a very decent and popular board. If it doesn't like D9 RAM, simple...try something else. The IP-35 series are certainly not the only mobos to not like certain types of RAM.

What's wrong with 540-550 FSB when a lot of 1066/1333 CPU's won't gain from higher than that anyway? And the diff between 1.4v and 1.36v to drive the same multi/FSB is not "a lot less voltage". It's only .04v, and might be the IP-35P's vdroop, but as long as the board can put out whatever the chip needs to get there, it doesn't really matter.

[Dami3n]

Problems with d9?
I had a ip35 pro with 4x1gb crucial 10th 1000 5-5-5-12 1:1, and no issues with them. Awesome board.

[strange|ife]

my ip35 pro has been very reliable (knock on wood) my chip is only thing holding back. It's getting a little long in the tooth.

the quad GT's where nice to

[jtdigital]

damn this sucks! :(

[OSKAR_WU]

Every one of those mobos I would consider legendary. I had KT7A, KX7 (great), KR7, KD7! :up:

The Only board that can be called legendary is BP6 ...
It's my own project in my last student year and it's the only board that create a complete new architecture beyond intel ... :p:

[eva2000]

Every one of those mobos I would consider legendary. I had KT7A, KX7 (great), KR7, KD7! :up:
Sad to hear about Abit... I still have my BH-5 loving Abit AI7 around somewhere :D

the old girl

http://www.fileshosts.com/pentium4/D1/abit/AI7/web/AI7_041.JPG

[MarcusFoX]

If this does happen look for a sister company to come in and try to buy the name.

The name is to well knowin just to let it waste away.


Sad to hear about Abit... I still have my BH-5 loving Abit AI7 around somewhere :D

the old girl

http://www.fileshosts.com/pentium4/D1/abit/AI7/web/AI7_041.JPG

The chipset fans on those were such a pos tho.. Ive burnt out 40 of them atleast

[ownage]

Abit will no cease to exist, they just won't make other then OEM motherboards anymore. So actually to me that means Abit is dead.

[aztec]

I've heard that the propellerheads went to Biostar, Foxconn, maybe DFI.

[Ghostbuster]

I've heard that the propellerheads went to Biostar, Foxconn, maybe DFI.Most of the engineers went to Biostar.:cool:

[reberto]

After my QuadGT I'm glad to see them go :rolleyes:

My first one wouldn't let me boot off anything or update the BIOS, 2nd one was the same, 3rd one worked for 2 weeks until it chose to not save my BIOS settings and freeze when I selected "save & quit" in the BIOS, 4th one froze before getting into the BIOS, 5th one was sold without even trying it because I bought an ASUS P5K Deluxe which worked right up until the day I sold it (I'm pretty sure it is still in use today :D)

Goodbye Abit, don't let the door hit you in the you know what on the way out!

[DeltZ]

first home build I made - IT7-Max2 V2...loved it =D

[aztec]

After my QuadGT I'm glad to see them go :rolleyes:



By the time of the QuadGT, the problems had already started at abit. IMO the IP35 series were their last really good boards. After that things went downhill.

[fireice2]

sad to hear abit go. :(

[dstedman]

I'm still loving mine. Rock solid!

[Hazzan]

just history now ...abit have legend of motherboard like IC7 MAX3 and NF7-S and I still keep that :):) the last I try only ABIT IX48GT3...:D:D

[Zytek_Fan]

Most of the engineers went to Biostar.:cool:

Hopefully Biostar can keep afloat, because they're putting out some pretty kickass boards :up:
And they're priced great too :up:


And RIP abit, you will be missed :(

[reberto]

By the time of the QuadGT, the problems had already started at abit. IMO the IP35 series were their last really good boards. After that things went downhill.

The P965 was a great chipset, but Abit somehow managed to screw it up on the QuadGT. By the time I was on my 5th they offered to trade my QGT for an IP35 Pro but I had already bought the P5K. I doubt I would have taken the IP35 anyways after the hell of my QGT.

[NapalmV5]

most memorable abit mobo: BP6

also memorable: KR7A-133R - 200fsb athlon goodness

[renzokuken]

tis a sad day :( I know Tiro_uspsss won'tbe happy about this...

[Plan.B]

I had the IC7-G Max2. volt and cap-modded it, then ran it into the ground. Excellent mobo at that time... Here is a pic I found of an early p4 build: abit IS7, radeon 9700, and a northwood 2.8/800. worked perfectly (overclocked) for a year or so, sold it

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i256/truckstopcbrambo/DSCN0101.jpg