PCB Color on Video Cards

[Hawk1]

pink pcb for the girls!

Yeah, there's a whole untapped market right there for you!

 

[Thermopylae_480]

pink pcb for the girls!

lol. PALiT Powderpuff Edition

I like white PCB. They're unusual to see, and I think add a somewhat unique feel.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

black red or orange like this

 

[philbrown23]

Is there enough interest in this i.e. will people buy them?

I think there would be alot of people that would buy the unique cards for 2 reasons,
1: it would kind of set them apart from most people
2: it would be alot easier to keep your case theme matching innstead of having everything orange and having an ugly green pcb on your gpu.

If we make a blue or yellow or whatever PCB are there other products that could be used to continue the theme throughout the case? sure there is! there is basically an endless amount of things to allow the end user to have whatever color theme they want in their case, from fans to water dyes to heatshrink!

What other color(s) should be offered?

WHITE! YELLOW! BLACK! UV REACTIVE!! FTW!

 

[imperialreign]

• Is there enough interest in this i.e. will people buy them?
• If we make a blue or yellow or whatever PCB are there other products that could be used to continue the theme throughout the case?
• What other color(s) should be offered?

1. I think there's enough interest in it, and considering how "customizing" one's rig is becoming more and more increasingly popular, I think that trend will grow too. Perhaps even offering different color PCB choices for the same product, as I'm sure there are some goofballs that put a lot of emphasis on a components PCB color before acquiring a product.

-personally, I prefer black PCB's, but being ATI loyal, it's hard to do an all-black ATI build. I'd honestly like to do an all white build, but LOL @ myself.

2. This is where I think you'd run into a brick wall. Unless someone only has a motherboard and a VGA adapter - you're pretty much out of luck. Most soundcards are black, blue or green - if you're running a wireless adapter or network adapter, you're stuck with green. Even DRAM modules are still green for the most part, with rare few that are different. To have all matching PCBs, you'd have to either decide upon green, or forego the majority of hardware upgrades and expansions.

3. I'd say, start with the commons and most popular first - red, blue, black, green; and maybe offer one or two "hard to find," or semi-popular colors, like white or yellow or orange. See how it goes, test the waters. No point in jumping full steam into something that's not a sure thing.

 

[Polaris573]

Black and blue are common colors that would match with motherboards and other system components.

Something that might be more unique would be metallic colored boards such as copper, silver, or gold. However, I do not know how possible that would be from an engineering standpoint. For example, are there non-metallic dyes with similar enough color and luster to achieve an acceptable look?

Something Abit did a few years ago with their X800-Guru might also be an option depending on cost/demand. They placed flashing LEDs on various places around the PCB, which might go over well with the people who like psychedelic cases with cold cathodes, etc.

 

[AddSub]

Black PCB is always nice. What about silver PCB's like Triplex used to do with their GeForce3 and GeForce4 cards? They were pretty unique I guess, in that respect at least. They were pretty rare, I believe they were never released in North America, just Asia.

Triplex Millenium Silver GeForce4 Ti 4600

Triplex GESTAPO GeForce3 Ti 200

(Note: GESTAPO? Interesting name.)

But like I said, black is always nice. I guess if your really got to use green, how about some darker green?

By the way, the card you are giving away, the 8800GT 1GB, it's a pretty un-attractive card. Green PCB, blue HS, and red DVI ports? Ouch!

 

[Polaris573]

Those are pretty neat, I had never seen them before. Good to know it can be done at least.

 

[DaMulta]

That silver just really pops out at you doesn't it.

Pink would be cool if it's the hot cool looking pink, not that dull ugly pink.

Black, now would it be jet black, or gloss black?


I don't know if this is the 8800GT 1GB that he will be giving away, but it has been updated to this color.

 

[ShadowFold]

I think a yellow or bright white pcb would really attract a customers attention. I personally would like to see a jet black pcb with one of those cool yellow coolers That would look pretty cool.

 

[Cold Storm]

All these colors would look good. Black is a color that goes with anything if the person has that side window and wants to show it off at a lan. White is a color that I haven't seen myself, and sounds good. But, the one that would strike me as out of this world, would be a uv painted one. Get that UV on Black or Red, and to me you have a kickass PCB. Its something I know no one has thought about. And if so, there'll be a thanks involved for finding it!

 

[Black Panther]

DaMulta's pink PCB looks nice! But I'm not much into pink... I'd prefer a black pcb over anything. The silver ones do look unique though.

As for green, they're too common... and the blue ones I've seen look sort of cheap.

However, I wouldn't buy a brand just because of the colour. I'd pick a blue pcb if it was a quality one.

 

[Cold Storm]

That silver just really pops out at you doesn't it.

Pink would be cool if it's the hot cool looking pink, not that dull ugly pink.

Black, now would it be jet black, or gloss black?


I don't know if this is the 8800GT 1GB that he will be giving away, but it has been updated to this color.

Damulta, are you using my stuff! I can tell you, I was shocked when i opened a green Palit box, and saw this Purple beauty. It's sexy!

 

[DaMulta]

You should water mark it LOL.
http://picmarkr.com/

 

[Urbklr]

Hmm...Black with some sort of Red accents would kick a$$....Like maybe even some UV-reactive coolers, and some LED's

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

silver = epic win

 

[kwchang007]

I think it's a cool idea, but I think something like a different colored pcb and then lights to go along with that and a better than reference cooler would really set these apart from a normal or overclocked version, and might warrant the price increase. The better cooler isn't really something thats necessarily needed, but if that went along with the pcb color and then lights, I think it'd defiantly be something that people would want in cases to show off. Just throwing in my 2 cents.

 

[Cold Storm]

You should water mark it LOL.
http://picmarkr.com/

How about you do it and see how it goes! lol. My god man, I love this card! Listening to P.I.M.P. as I write this!

 

[nflesher87]

Black PCB is always nice. What about silver PCB's like Triplex used to do with their GeForce3 and GeForce4 cards? They were pretty unique I guess, in that respect at least. They were pretty rare, I believe they were never released in North America, just Asia.

Triplex Millenium Silver GeForce4 Ti 4600

Triplex GESTAPO GeForce3 Ti 200

(Note: GESTAPO? Interesting name.)

But like I said, black is always nice. I guess if your really got to use green, how about some darker green?

By the way, the card you are giving away, the 8800GT 1GB, it's a pretty un-attractive card. Green PCB, blue HS, and red DVI ports? Ouch!

nice find! that is effing sweet and would look amazing inside my V1000A!

 

[imperialreign]

That 8800 looks more purple to me - but damn, that is a nice color

along with the silver. That's the first silver PCB I've seen.

Black, now would it be jet black, or gloss black?

gloss black, IMO looks the best. I guess I just like the added reflectiveness (mmmmm . . . . shiinnnyy!)

anything is better than that cream or brownish-black (like used by Creative for their X-Fi cards), though:

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

so everyone likes silver then?

 

[DarkMatter]

Definately black with silver accents for me. UV it's a good idea too.

But I'm not really sure if I would pay more just for a different colour though. I always move around the ~200€ price point and the difference shouldn't be higher than 5€. A different cooler design would help, of course.

I'm visualizing something similar to a 9800 GTX with organic looking raised silver areas. I want a Xeno-card!! It would rock in conjunction with green lights.
I would pay extra 15€ for that!!

 

[DaedalusHelios]

Yeah, silver would sell out pretty quick. I would buy a silver card for sure.

 

[Duffman]

Black is nice, it would match alot of Mobos but is kinda boring. I like black though, don't get me wrong.

I would love to see a green one to match the frog. that would be way cool. Not a boring old school green though. A bright, neon type green.

Not like this card's green, but match the color on the box!

Or like the PCI slots on the DFI boards:

I am really digging that purple too. I also like blue pcb's.

I'm not digging that silver.

 

[Duxx]

I want to see white/black/orange. I think if you have a variety of diferent and one standard color that you can always back up it would work out wonders. The normal for ordinary people who dont want anything lavish, and something different for people who want to jazz things up. Picking one color would be very difficult to suite everybody's preference but maybe offering some sort of small fee to have a customized one would bring more customers. Id pay a few extra, 10 maybe 20$ for a PCB color of my liking.