It seems ASUS continues to offer green motherboards.
It seems ASUS continues to offer green motherboards.
I was browsing the various board options on the ASUS website and noticed this suggestion. Wouldn't it be more economical to produce black motherboards instead of offering different colors just for a specific audience? I’m puzzled as to why they’d choose green for such a product.
It wasn't obvious the green originated from a coating. I assumed it was applied directly.
it was a solder mask applied to safeguard the conductive traces and solder connections
The base board (green, brownish, or sometimes yellow fibreglass) is coated with a copper layer. The pathways are defined, excess copper is removed, and then a protective coating called laquer is applied to shield the traces. Solder mask is commonly used, though older folks just called it laquer because that was the main material. For a long time, green or cobalt blue were standard choices. As boards get older, the lacquer can turn brown due to oxidation, while newer designs often keep green for clarity. Modern multi-layer PCBs usually have green solder mask unless aesthetics matter, and you can usually tell a digital device from a TV by opening it.
Sure, my 15-year-old Acer has a green motherboard, which is likely the most used one in our home because I've opened it many times to install things, take out a dead GPU, or clean out bugs that got inside.