Quote Originally Posted by 3oh6 View Post
thanks buddy, as Oliver said the C9 kits seem to be Micron. i just stumbled across that info today. when i saw that, i also noticed other Blade kits coming with black PCB's. the same 8 layer PCB these sticks use, but black. now i talked with a friend of the owner of said PCB company that produces these boards and he said that stock shouldn't have been the reason for going with green over black.

so my question is, do other PC3-16000 7-8-7 Blade owners have green or black PCBs? and why would OCZ go with green PCB's over the black, which appear to be identical to the green? i mean, the black just look soooo much better
green is most likely ref design or the default pcb for that chip from brainpower or whoever makes the pcb, black is usually custom...

from all pcb colors black has the worst yields for some reason, its somehow dificult to paint pcbs black without hurting quality... dont ask me why

so green is the default usually, and everything else is custom...