DFI Says It’s Not Quitting Consumer Motherboard Market
Regarding the recent rumors of DFI quitting consumer motherboard market, Expreview has contacted DFI to confirm if it’s true.
DFI’s product manager Jarry denied the rumors by saying they had no plan to exit consumer motherboard market. But, we’re told that they would do some adjustments on future products, such as reducing some mainstream models. For example, they would probably just design MI-ITX and probably uATX motherboards based on RD890 chip, which means there will be no standard ATX form factor.
According to Jarry, DFI will concentrate more on MI-ITX and Hybrid products, although they will continue to sell X58 ATX models as well.
Anyway, we’re now absolutely sure that DFI will keep competing in the consumer motherboard market.
December 25th, 2009 at 3:31 am
What happened with DFI. I bought and recommended DFI boards for gaming rigs for years. Then all of a sudden the sites, such as Hardocp, quit writing about them. It was Hardocp site that I first learned about DFI, and I supported them. I’ve basically gone back to ASUS for my high end. My regular hangout just quit supporting them. Even the original guys at the DFI forum quit. I guess business ethics keeps the public from finding out the truth. I’m still using three boards at home because of their quality, they have lasted, are one of the best overclockers on the market, and because of that I have not had to upgrade for the last three years. With Windows 7 needing less resources, I’ve noticed a snappier computer since vista. So what ever you did DFI get back into the game. Your boards are good.
January 6th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
It seems to me after socket 939 they stop making solid motherboards that were feature rich and within customer budgets. Take for instance the most popular DFI LanParty UT nf4 Ultra D. This board was esthetically pleasing to the eye and had onboard diagnostics leds and could OC most AMD cheaps flawlessly with great results due to the extensive bios and was priced right at the time.
Then you look on any major site like newegg, tigerdirect etc and see how much they were charging for the 775 socket boards when they came out. Then listen to the customer diminishing returns about their experiences with certain mobos which were RMA’d.
Keep that in mind, now quickly look at what Gigabyte and Asus was putting out at that time. The boards were at least $50 cheaper and were feature rich and the reviews were returning consistant happy results. So to me it seemed that Gigabyte with their 2oz copper was on par or better than even Asus! I can’t say much for Asrock or MSI, Foxconn etc. they are out there I’ve owned a few they work but don’t really make me go wow! but they at least work lol.
I want to like DFI if they could make mobos like those Lanparty UT nf4 of the past but that isn’t the case and the prices are high so I wait till they can give their heads a shake and get with the program.