Driver Heaven inside Abit HQ

***Zardon*** · Jun 19, 2006, 06:20 AM

Read the article here
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Aaron recently had the chance to go into Abit HQ since the USI takeover and took a look at several motherboards - the Fatal1ty AN9-32X and the IL-80MV. Aaron also spoke with Peter du Preez, Content Editor and Marketing Manager and mentioned some concerns that our membership raised on our forums.

Driver Heaven: With the still living AN8 issues ranging from leaking caps to USB issues, what is being done about it? And will problems like this occur in the future?
Peter: The AN8 was released during the transitional phase when Abit was going through the financial struggles. From that time we have switched to 100% Japanese caps, have much more resources to pull for our R&D department, both of these things will increase the quality and compatibility of our boards exponentially. But even if a manufacturing defect were to occur, we now have an extra 22 RMA centers around the world to help our customers with convenience and ease.

Erroneus · Jun 19, 2006, 11:54 AM

Nice.

"[color=#000000]please notice the new locking mechanism for the video cards which promises to make installing and removing leagues easier."

Any details on this, the "details" seems a bit [/color]sparsely

digerati · Jun 19, 2006, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Erroneus

Nice.

"[color=#000000]please notice the new locking mechanism for the video cards which promises to make installing and removing leagues easier."

Any details on this, the "details" seems a bit [/color]sparsely

Unfortunately I didn't have a card to test it out with, but if you look at the second to last picture it's basically just a tab you pull

Erroneus · Jun 19, 2006, 01:54 PM

Ah yes, clever clever

Always pain in the a**e to change a GFX

germanjulian · Jun 20, 2006, 12:09 AM

Abit rules!

shame they had such a bad rep recently

Erroneus · Jun 20, 2006, 01:44 AM

Yeah they taking some bad beating lately, I'm guessing loosing that guy (cant remember his name) who invented the guru technology and alot of other important ABIT technologies to DFI was a hard blow for them. Because ever since he went to DFI, ABIT hasn't been that impressive

Thats proberly why they are going to leave the GFX market, they want to concentrate on the most important thing to them, motherboards.

SFOSOK · Jun 20, 2006, 02:56 AM

Good article : )

Jun 19, 2006, 06:20 AM	#1
*Zardon* enchanted Join Date: May 2002 Location: Driverheaven Posts: 32,256 Rep Power: 3150	Driver Heaven inside Abit HQ Read the article here __________________ Aaron recently had the chance to go into Abit HQ since the USI takeover and took a look at several motherboards - the Fatal1ty AN9-32X and the IL-80MV. Aaron also spoke with Peter du Preez, Content Editor and Marketing Manager and mentioned some concerns that our membership raised on our forums. Driver Heaven: With the still living AN8 issues ranging from leaking caps to USB issues, what is being done about it? And will problems like this occur in the future? Peter: The AN8 was released during the transitional phase when Abit was going through the financial struggles. From that time we have switched to 100% Japanese caps, have much more resources to pull for our R&D department, both of these things will increase the quality and compatibility of our boards exponentially. But even if a manufacturing defect were to occur, we now have an extra 22 RMA centers around the world to help our customers with convenience and ease.

Jun 19, 2006, 11:54 AM	#2
Erroneus Loving my Windows 7 Ent. Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 12,921 Rep Power: 77 System Specs	Nice. "[color=#000000]please notice the new locking mechanism for the video cards which promises to make installing and removing leagues easier." Any details on this, the "details" seems a bit [/color]sparsely __________________

Jun 19, 2006, 01:54 PM	#4
Erroneus Loving my Windows 7 Ent. Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 12,921 Rep Power: 77 System Specs	Ah yes, clever clever Always pain in the a**e to change a GFX __________________

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Jun 20, 2006, 01:44 AM	#6
Erroneus Loving my Windows 7 Ent. Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 12,921 Rep Power: 77 System Specs	Yeah they taking some bad beating lately, I'm guessing loosing that guy (cant remember his name) who invented the guru technology and alot of other important ABIT technologies to DFI was a hard blow for them. Because ever since he went to DFI, ABIT hasn't been that impressive Thats proberly why they are going to leave the GFX market, they want to concentrate on the most important thing to them, motherboards. __________________

Jun 20, 2006, 02:56 AM	#7
SFOSOK -Thread Ender- Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Riverside, CA (right next to the f*ckin train) Posts: 6,873 Rep Power: 48 System Specs	Good article : ) __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!