Abit IP45 Pro image, spec and feedback of course !

[davemuk]

I heard it will come this week, maybe someone can confirm or deny :P

I found this post which suggests the same.

[krille]

Does anyone know if the IP43 Pro will overclock well? The only difference seems to be the lack of CF (which I don't need).

It's for an E8400. Should it reliably let the E8400 hit ~4 Ghz / ~450 Mhz FSB?

[Nelly]

do you want me to see how much it would cost to send you one from here?

Would be interested to see cost, works out around £122 ($237) inc shipping from Belgium.

@Nelly..check your PM inbox

Checked your mail & would just like to say thanks for looking into this for me, appreciate your time & effort. I've managed to source a UK distributor as well as contacts of a supplier.

£92.81 inc delivery, very good price as the saying goes "seek & you shall find"

[dctokyo]

Abit reportedly leaving motherboard business

Now, according to CustomPC, the company will cease all motherboard production. Most of the Fatal1ty team has apparently transferred to either Foxconn or Biostar.

Abit may intend to focus its manufacturing efforts on products that synchronize more easily with USI's product lines, including notebooks, UMPCs, and photo frames, but the company's time as a motherboard competitor has come to an end.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/hard...board-business

[davemuk]

Abit reportedly leaving motherboard business

Now, according to CustomPC, the company will cease all motherboard production. Most of the Fatal1ty team has apparently transferred to either Foxconn or Biostar.

From CustomPC

Interestingly, our source also suggested that this could signal Abit’s exit from the motherboard market in general

Anyone else want to play Chinese whispers ?

[Nelly]

Well if the statements are not true, theirs nothing stopping Universal Abit suing these companys for posting false infomation which could damage sales etc, who really knows . . . ?

I like Abit but I'll say this they have taken far to long releasing the latest batch of motherboards hence why these statements are coming out more often than not whether the info is true or false.

I really dont see the point in being loyal to one brand because of the Abit name or any other company & I've waited far too long for the Abit IP45 Pro to be released, I'll be buying a Biostar motherboard for the very first time, they are doing everything right at the moment.

My personal thoughts are Abit wont be in the motherboard market within the next 12-18 month, that puts me off buying because of the support, like I've mentioned I've had experiance as an employee in similar circumstances at companys where rumors where rife etc no offical news to say otherwise & bang! unemployed.

If Abit are going to be doing anything in the next 12-18 months they need to look at marketing the brand more better in terms of advertising as well as publishing a set release date for their products, I dont care what other opinions are but all these published articles have done the damage already.

[Ace-a-Rue]

yeah, good old abit has suffered significant image damage due to their lethargy in getting the correct word out on their status and upcoming mobo products.

[vengance_01]

Could explain why there has been such a large delay in seeing there P45 and X48 boards. It will be a sad day if this is indeed true.

[Nelly]

Not sure but Abit's parent company Universal Scientific Industrial Co Ltd has 13,311 employee's.

Source

I dont think they are really interested in the motherboard market anymore, otherwise they would put more effort into bringing the products out on time in the first place.

Considering DFI (511) & Biostar (856) employee's respectively do bring out products relatively on time now.

[hokiealumnus]

Posted this in the IP35 thread, but since they seem to be going in both: That's just a re-write of an article from last Thursday that people harped on last week. No new information there. Heck, they even linked to the article. Lazy "reporting". I still think they are simply tightening the reigns because of the economic situation. Until the fat lady sings (as in abit confirms this), don't count them out yet. Would hate for these rumors to become self-fulfilling prophesy.

EDIT - I should point out I completely agree it's ridiculous that they haven't released their P45 / P43 chipset boards to the mass market. I'm just not ready to give up on them.

[Ace-a-Rue]

if they are tightening the reins then support, especially bios support will be poor.

[GAR]

No way, ABIT wont be making boards, ive had some good Abit boards in the past, sucks!!!

[Nelly]

if they are tightening the reins then support, especially bios support will be poor.

Not wanting to slag Abit off but Bios updates hasn't been exactly amazing over the past few years with reocurring bugs that were previously fixed in previous bios etc but Abit do come good in the end.

If they have reduced their number of bios engineers, like you said Ace-a-Rue, bios support is bound to be poor, we was told that the reason why the IP45 Pro & X48-Max wasnt released because they had to bring in external bios engineers to sort out their problems & move over from the Pheonix Bios to AMI.

Not exactly the sort of info you want when purchasing a new motherboard, hence why I'll be buying elsewhere for my P45 motherboard.

Just been looking at the bios releases for the BIOSTAR TPower I45, 3 bios releases + 2 beta within 5 weeks to fix all the bugs associated with the motherboard, thats how it should be done.

[hokiealumnus]

No way, ABIT wont be making boards, ive had some good Abit boards in the past, sucks!!!

Can't argue that point. However, you and I both know the IP35 Pro had one of the best release BIOSes of any with a P35 chipset, which is partly why it won such accolades. I'd rather have two or three solid, useful BIOS fixes that address major compatibility issues (i.e. new CPU die size, which admittedly took a while) rather than ten or fifteen piddly BIOS updates to fix things that shouldn't have been broken in the first place.

[WSX]

@ Nelly, can you PM me who sells the Biostar board in the UK ... thanks

[Jamesrt2004]

@ Nelly, can you PM me who sells the Biostar board in the UK ... thanks

_1 please

and sucks was looking into getting this mobo obv now looking into biostar

[jcool]

Why on earth would they move to an AMI bios? They suck, it's what I hate most about Asus boards.

[Ace-a-Rue]

trying to figure that one out myself!

[Amigan]

they probably swapped due to costs would be my first thought.

Amigan.

[illidan]

No way, ABIT wont be making boards, ive had some good Abit boards in the past, sucks!!!

loved my IC7 (the best board ever) still alive and my current one IP35 Pro great board!

sad... very sad

[Ace-a-Rue]

they probably swapped due to costs would be my first thought.

Amigan.

my guess would be that they let go their best bios engineers when they did that across the board staff cut!

[Bhairav]

The IX48 is available in India.
14500 rupees, which is ~340 USD. Oh well, we get gypped anyway!

[Supershanks]

The IX48 is available in India.

Nothing in europe this place has it listed
HPM DE but you can see the status. Their generally amongst the 1st to get new boards, especially rare ones

[Ace-a-Rue]

1st to get new boards, especially rare ones

[SP1]

The Abit IX48-GT3 is available at OcUK.