Huh? Though black seems to dominate these days there are a lot of colored PCB's out there on mainboards. What would be refereshing would be colors other than blue and black, say red or yellow or fluorescent orange.
I feel your pain, unfortunately colored PCB's on AMD are pretty limited with all of them being black with various RGB BS instead of trying to make the boards look better. Part of this is the limited selection of boards with only 1 (rarely 2) per manufacturer instead of the 5-6 with Intel where they try to differentiate the various boards with aesthetics. The threadripper boards have the same issue for the same reason. It's not because there isn't colored PCB's it's that there aren't enough mainboard versions for them to bother differentiating them.
The days when consumer PCBs were colorful were pretty few in the grand picture. For decades they were either green or golden/brown. Now they are black/grey/whatever. There was a short period in between when they were all the colors in the rainbow.
You can still find Red in the Intel boards and blue was available even one generation ago, almost all server boards are still green. The biggest trend now is to just make the whole thing black and put RGB LED's all over the thing for "color" rather than making the heatsinks and board colorful. It's sad actually how little the manufacturers care about aesthetics of the boards in the current generation of boards.
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takeshi7 - Thursday, August 16, 2018 - link
Look at those blue PCBs. I miss the days when consumer PCBs were colorful.rahvin - Thursday, August 16, 2018 - link
Huh? Though black seems to dominate these days there are a lot of colored PCB's out there on mainboards. What would be refereshing would be colors other than blue and black, say red or yellow or fluorescent orange.takeshi7 - Thursday, August 16, 2018 - link
Find me a blue B450/X470/Z370 motherboard. Preferably with blue anodized heatsinks, too.rahvin - Thursday, August 16, 2018 - link
I feel your pain, unfortunately colored PCB's on AMD are pretty limited with all of them being black with various RGB BS instead of trying to make the boards look better. Part of this is the limited selection of boards with only 1 (rarely 2) per manufacturer instead of the 5-6 with Intel where they try to differentiate the various boards with aesthetics. The threadripper boards have the same issue for the same reason. It's not because there isn't colored PCB's it's that there aren't enough mainboard versions for them to bother differentiating them.close - Friday, August 17, 2018 - link
The days when consumer PCBs were colorful were pretty few in the grand picture. For decades they were either green or golden/brown. Now they are black/grey/whatever. There was a short period in between when they were all the colors in the rainbow.rahvin - Friday, August 17, 2018 - link
You can still find Red in the Intel boards and blue was available even one generation ago, almost all server boards are still green. The biggest trend now is to just make the whole thing black and put RGB LED's all over the thing for "color" rather than making the heatsinks and board colorful. It's sad actually how little the manufacturers care about aesthetics of the boards in the current generation of boards.ZolaIII - Thursday, August 16, 2018 - link
Gigabyte whose always blue disregarding for what it is.