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Y Motherboard And The Chips R In In Green Color?

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kerthivasan
kerthivasan Original post #1
Feb 28, 2007 at 7:39 PM
Y Motherboard And The Chips R In In Green Color?
Is There Any Reason For It?
Sukhdeep Singh
Feb 28, 2007 at 7:47 PM
Not all MOBO and RAM are green in color :D

Man, do you really need to ask so many dumb questions each day. I know this is QnA Section...but still.

Well Anywayz... who am I :D
M
Feb 28, 2007 at 8:11 PM
my mobo is brown. And what is this? Some way to increase post count? Or are you search challenged?
hailgautam
Feb 28, 2007 at 8:15 PM
I will choose the 2nd option. But it is funny, he is like a in house quiz master. I never thought of such a question, let him continue.....

May be because the use of material called PLCC.

Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC) is a square surface-mount chip package for low thermal output microprocessors that substitutes epoxy plastic for the ceramic materials that are commonly used to encase chips in systems designed for microprocessors that produce high thermal outputs that can melt the plastic epoxy. PLCCs are JEDEC standard compliant. The PLCC ā€œJā€ Lead configuration requires less board space versus equivalent gull-leaded components.
Pathik
Pathik #5
Feb 28, 2007 at 8:22 PM
yea .... but how does it matter to u???
now i know this site was made for whom !!!
47shailesh
Feb 28, 2007 at 8:33 PM
have'nt you noticed mecury mobo they are red in color...
Faun
Faun #7
Feb 28, 2007 at 9:18 PM
i hav mercury mobo in teal.
and foxconn in black.

Next time its gonna be transparent (someone ever thought abt that? a gamers delight..).
tarey_g
tarey_g #8
Feb 28, 2007 at 9:46 PM
My MSI board was RED
New Asus Board is Brown/golden
My old Vid card Geforce 4 Ti4200 was also Brown/Golden
My friends Geforce 4 Ti4400 was Purple (hehe)
His New(just sold it) XFX 6600GT was blue
My XFX 6600GT(Me too sold it recently) was Black (awesome color)

Point is i have not seen Green PCB in ages , strange.
Arsenal_Gunners
Feb 28, 2007 at 9:48 PM
My motherboard is Golden(sucks:x)
Cool G5
Cool G5 #10
Feb 28, 2007 at 10:14 PM
My mobo MSI is RED.
eddie
eddie #11
Mar 1, 2007 at 2:19 AM
It is weird how so many people felt that his question was dumb but no one cared to actually answer it :confused:

I kind of liked his question...made me remember those thick "Tell me more" series books that I read when I was a kid. Anyways, the answer behind most of the circuit boards being green is a material known as solder mask (Google for more) that is applied on both sides of a circuit board and yes it comes in lots of other colours but green is the commonest as it is the oldest.
hailgautam
Mar 1, 2007 at 6:52 AM
^^true, even i only actually tried to get an answer.

let me take another guess...

motherboards in olden days were green coz they had lead enamel on them to disperse heat. same goes for the chips the plastics used for the chips were also used high lead content so as to disperse heat.

however since lead is harmful to the nature, it is being replaced now with other ecofriendly substances, and you got your red, golden etc colors.
phreak0ut
phreak0ut #13
Mar 1, 2007 at 7:45 PM
The color is mainly because of a substance called solder mask This is to preven the board getting damaged during soldering. Saw the whole process and its simply amazing!! :D
kerthivasan
Mar 1, 2007 at 9:19 PM
sukhdeepsinghkohli said:
Not all MOBO and RAM are green in color :D

Man, do you really need to ask so many dumb questions each day. I know this is QnA Section...but still.

Well Anywayz... who am I :D

see i am not asking these ques. wantedly.
i just had a doubt and i thought digit forum was the best place to clear my ideas.

so if u find me dumb plz ignore me.
sorry if i wasted any of ur time
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tech_your_future said:
my mobo is brown. And what is this? Some way to increase post count? Or are you search challenged?
u too mod..

what i am going to get by increasing my post rate.

i just had an doubt.

what i am going to get by wasting my time and ur time.

and u should remeber if i search this i can find the answer very fast than this.

but i wanted to hear from the members.
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pathiks said:
yea .... but how does it matter to u???
now i know this site was made for whom !!!

the link u posted was wrong.

can u give me the correct link..
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hailgautam said:
^^true, even i only actually tried to get an answer.

let me take another guess...

motherboards in olden days were green coz they had lead enamel on them to disperse heat. same goes for the chips the plastics used for the chips were also used high lead content so as to disperse heat.

however since lead is harmful to the nature, it is being replaced now with other ecofriendly substances, and you got your red, golden etc colors.

thnak u very much
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eddie said:
It is weird how so many people felt that his question was dumb but no one cared to actually answer it :confused:

I kind of liked his question...made me remember those thick "Tell me more" series books that I read when I was a kid. Anyways, the answer behind most of the circuit boards being green is a material known as solder mask (Google for more) that is applied on both sides of a circuit board and yes it comes in lots of other colours but green is the commonest as it is the oldest.

there r alos nice people in this forum like U. thank u very much