There definitely is a price difference. Basically newer mobo's have less and less gold plating. Chinese colored ones are the lowest grade. You can find a few discussions about the price difference between green mobo's and other colors (purple, red, etc). Just do a search for "Chinese motherboards" and you get a few results like this:
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/showt...aord-valuation
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