Quote Originally Posted by dinos22 View Post
i don't think so

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=86928&pp=10
this was a sticky and engineers looked into it an all but it was all big arse BS

so from now on if i decide to be silly enough to buy Abit motherboards i'll wait and see what the issues are first before i jump into it because i know Abit will most likely not fix or improve half of things or even more that are needed
I'm sure that you know that the abit USA forums are user-to-user - yes, some abit staff read then but from what I understand most of the engineers in Taiwan don't understand English.

With all due respect those things aren't necessary for 99.9% of people - you may want them but necessary they are not.
Some maybe weren't possible in BIOS only, some like the 5V for fans or off entirely imo you'll never get.

There is also no doubt in my mind at least that abit pre & post USI are different.

Now I'm not saying that abit are a shining example but having used several Asus, Gigabyte & MSI boards recently as well I wouldn't say that they are any better.
DFI may be as they have an enthusiast in Oskar Wu but he can't do everything & DFI aren't immune to complaints about poor BIOS updates either.