Talk:Universal Abit

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All Abit motherboards use chipsets by Via, correct? Suggest this is added, nVidia's chipsets are very much the default, so this is quite important.

No abit uses chipsets from ATI/AMD, SiS, Nvidia, Intel, Via, and ULi (now owned by Nvidia). Bwave 02:07, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Intel 440BX chipset DOES support dual-CPU operation for Intel Pentium II processors as per factory specification. What ABIT did was to use dual Celerons (1/3rd price of same speed slot1 Pentium II at the time).

However, the ABIT vs. SCSI scandal made a lot of IT support personnel loose their hair and go bold. ABIT actually tried to hide the fact she fiddled with 5V PCI caps and tried to fix the problems with BIOS updates, which of course couldn't solve a hardware trouble.

I don't think ABIT and MSI will ever again reputable OEM status. There is no way IBM and the like will buy mobos from the once again. Soo good for ECS.

Abit doesn't produce enough boards to become a OEM I believe, plus they now use all Japanese caps, which cost more, along with heatpipes, etc. I'd imagine their boards cost too much. Abit typically is an enthusiast brand, not OEM. ECS is bottom of the barrel quality (they own PCChips as well) so not sure what comment above means. HP typically uses Foxconn or Asus boards, and Dell typically uses Intel/Foxconn boards. Bwave 02:07, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Motherboard manufacturer"

Abit doesn't make motherboards anymore It should say that Abit "was" a motherboard manufacturer

NPOV edit

Is it just me, or does this page sound a bit too fanboy-y? ABIT may be a great company, but this is just gushing with praise every step of the way.

I agree; the POV on this page is so thick you can cut it with a knife. I'll see what I can do. -lee 17:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'm working on it, and here's some of the problems I need resolved:

The ABIT "firsts" could really use some sources, otherwise it sounds too much like advertising to me. I'll give the dual-Celeron hack the benefit of the doubt for now.
Which Adaptec cards were to blame? I'm looking at this on Google now, and it seems that both the old ISA 1540/1542 and the PCI 2930/2940/29160 have had problems with certain ABIT boards. I do know that my ancient (1992 vintage) ABIT AT4 486DX board has trouble with a 1542CF, but what did the original author mean here?
The whole thing is still pretty incoherent, and we could really use more info about what ABIT was up to before Softmenu (which has only been out for about 5 or 6 years). -lee 18:36, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

copyvio

I've added the copyvio text again because a couple of paragraphs were pasted from a hardware review site. The best solution might be to delete the offending paragraphs, since they're not NPOV anyway. -- Mikeblas 00:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:CV, I've deleted the offending text. (I did a little copyediting, too.) I didn't realize the offending text could be extracted from the article; given that it can, we have an easier solution. -- Mikeblas 17:53, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Selling HQ Building

It was Abit selling its HQ building in order to get some cash to pay its debts, not USI. I corrected that and added the info on what USI is doing with the acquired Mainboard business and Brand name.

Name and logo change

Their website now consistently uses the name abit (not ABIT), except in the title that's almost all caps, and they have apparently made this an official change. I'm not sure if the best course of action really is to change every single occurrence on this page to match, rather than leave it be or possibly go halfway with a more traditional Abit. They also have a new logo that reflects their new-found love of lowercase. Aluvus 05:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed article to correct company name of Universal abit, left many of the uses of ABIT as all caps, since they were ABIT at the time, but yes, now the company uses lowercase abit in all promotional material I've seen. Bwave 02:43, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2nd Tier

What are the tiers of motherboard manufacturers? And who assigned Universal abit to the 2nd tier? patsw (talk) 23:02, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]