if the cooler is reference then its a reference card, the thing is TSMC made red PCBs for the first batch of 4870s, but then they made orders of BLUE for HIS for the ICEQ cards and HIS didnt want to make 2 orders so the non IceQ cards got the blue PCB as well, but its still reference: here is a pic of the IceQ blue PCB http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowIm...d%20-%20Retail