Quote Originally Posted by Richard Dower
I assure you it's *real* copper, i have said mobo myself. The NB has a plastic "Gigabyte" logo on top of the copper NB, heatpipes are copper and so are the MOSFET heatsinks.

Sounds good, when I lapped my P5W S/B the paint vanished and there it was, a metalic color so I doubt it's copper