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• Shadow7037932 - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  Looks tacky as hell.

• close - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  As I see it in these pictures they take me back to the age of green or brown PCBs. Which begs the question: when will green motherboards be a thing again?

• ddriver - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  Better off, make the pcb transparent, and backlit it in any color with rgb leds.

• WorldWithoutMadness - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  Nope, the tracing would be horrendous and ugly as well.
  Also, it is not possible to make transparent pcb with the same material and same function.

• ddriver - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  What I mean to say is not transparent but translucent, a transparent board will not be illuminated by the leds, it is possible to manufacture translucent pcbs, as I actually have a few unetched sheets for prototyping laying around.

• slyphnier - Friday, January 15, 2016 - link

  isnt the PCB layered with copper? those gigabyte ultra durable, marketing 2x copper PCB over traditional/standard pcb... if so how transparent even translucent possible ? ... i am think maybe possible for simple electronic pcb, but not as complex as mobo

• Aspiring Techie - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  Put that in a creamy "windows 95" colored case and don't tell anyone. Watch friends' reactions as they see you play modern games on an "old" computer.
  
  Aside from the above situation, I can't see of any possible way that anyone would dare put that color of mobo into his computer.

• MrSpadge - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  I would.. if it's cheaper. But that's because my case has solid sound-damping side panels instead of windows.

• Alexvrb - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  Spadge: Ditto!
  
  Aspiring Techie: Only if you can successfully mod the loading screen so it looks like an old 95 boot sequence (I remember replacing the Win95 splash screen back in the day with a pic from Shadowrun on Genesis - I used a screenshot of a Matrix CPU node it was excellent). Then install a Win95 theme. :P

• StormyParis - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  Gold is soooo passé ! It's Rose Gold these days.

• Oxford Guy - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  Anything is an improvement over black. Black screws. Black connectors. Black headers. Black PCB. Black everything. Good luck seeing anything without a flashlight or very bright lighting.

• azrael- - Thursday, January 14, 2016 - link

  You evidently didn't live in the age of brown and beige... ;-)

• lorribot - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  The red bits don't help. Black RAM and PCI-e slot would help and in a matt black case.
  Still by the time you put a clashing full sized cooler and two slot graphics card no one will see much anyway.

• WorldWithoutMadness - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  It can't be helped because this is MSI, designer of many fugly laptops. If they have an award for most beautiful and ugly, MSI would win the ugly one.
  They don't have any sense of elegance in designing.
  
  They could've put some glittering gold in that, or make refrence from MJ's costume in dangerous world tour black and gold, not the best but much better than this.

• lorribot - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  Another thought, what does it look like under coloured lighting?

• Ashinjuka - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  I guess I'm not the market for products like this, but the color of the motherboard is /really/ not something I care about in the slightest. On the other hand, I actually kind of like it, though. Motherboards should be available in all sorts of interesting colors, but it wouldn't influence my buying decision. The specs per price are what matter to me.

• hansmuff - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  I want white motherboards. There were some in the past but haven't seen any recently. This one's ugly.

• angrypatm - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  "Tacky as hell" yes, but that does work in some markets. Purple Ferrari's (the death penalty should be applied here), gold Lambo's, diamond encrusted phones ....

• boozed - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  I struggle to understand why anyone cares what colour the PCBs in their computer are.

• lehtv - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  It's because different colors look different, and people have different preferences. Some people like black, others like red or blue, and so on. I hope that clears it up.

• WhisperingEye - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link

  To quote Ja Rule, "It's not how you stand by your car, it's how you drive your car." Hope I convoluted the point to you.

• Strunf - Thursday, January 14, 2016 - link

  In the case of a car I would understand picking one color over another but in this case even if the PCB looks great after you install all the components you'll see little of it and that is if you have a window on your case...

• boozed - Thursday, January 14, 2016 - link

  Thankyou for the revelation that people have colour preferences.

• HollyDOL - Thursday, January 14, 2016 - link

  Same here... alas if there were two boards that match "what I want" in the means of features/performance etc., one being this gold and other pretty much any other colour (perhaps except pink :-)) I'd choose the one not gold :-)

• CaedenV - Thursday, January 14, 2016 - link

  My motherboard came with gold colored capacitors, but there was an issue with one of the DIMMs and I had to send it back for RMA. The replacement was the same in every respect... except that the gold color was missing from the caps! Tacky as gold can be, it actually looked pretty nice as an accent color.

• Beaver M. - Thursday, January 14, 2016 - link

  For the Russian market only?

• dsraa - Thursday, January 14, 2016 - link

  Ewwwwww.....it looks god-awful. like I'm back in the early 90's with my Pentium 100mhz CPU..

• name99 - Thursday, January 14, 2016 - link

  I want a Rose Gold motherboard to match my iPhone :-)