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If you use any Abit hardware....
The last vestige of Abit will soon disappear. Abit's corp website http://www.abit.com.tw/ will be shut down on the 28th of February. In its heyday this once highly innovative company had championed many previously unheard technologies that are now common place in the PC industry. These include their Softmenu BIOS which allowed for jumperless motherboards and the OTIS cooling system which employed heatpipes to efficiently remove heat from the northbridge chip and voltage regulators. Another first for the industry was Abit's μGuru chip. This chip and its associated software allowed for adjusting CPU overclicking from the Windows desktop.
So long Abit....
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Fire$torm
The last vestige of Abit will soon disappear. Abit's corp website
http://www.abit.com.tw/ will be shut down on the 28th of February. In its heyday this once highly innovative company had championed many previously unheard technologies that are now common place in the PC industry. These include their Softmenu BIOS which allowed for jumperless motherboards and the OTIS cooling system which employed heatpipes to efficiently remove heat from the northbridge chip and voltage regulators. Another first for the industry was Abit's μGuru chip. This chip and its associated software allowed for adjusting CPU overclicking from the Windows desktop.
So long Abit....
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I was a fan. Had two boards. Ahh well.
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Mike029
I was a fan. Had two boards. Ahh well.
As was I. :) I had one of the Abit boards with the first SATA connectors in the industry on it (on a mainstream mobo). They made some of the highest rated overclocking "enthusiast" mobos in their day - I think that was also the AMD Athlon64 heyday as well.
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I was the first I knew of to run the old seti classic benchmark wu under an hour (59mins and 45secs I think it was) on an ABIT (NF7?) mobo with an AMD chip overclocked to 2.5Ghz. This was probably 10 years ago now.
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Bok
I was the first I knew of to run the old seti classic benchmark wu under an hour (59mins and 45secs I think it was) on an ABIT (NF7?) mobo with an AMD chip overclocked to 2.5Ghz. This was probably 10 years ago now.
Yes. That is the one. The Abit NF7 was the best AMD Soc 462 with the Nforce 2 chipset one could buy back then.
I used to have one also.
