Reference cards question

[Adsta]

So I am planning to watercool my GTX480. I've found somewhere that sells GTX 480 EK waterblocks.

This is my first attempt at watercooling GFX cards sooooo still trying to understand the terminology. On the website it says "A Full cover block for reference design GeForce 480 GTX graphic card." so urm yea whats a reference design card ? Are there only so many makes that do them ?

I currently have MSI GTX 480 Which is working nicely but is getting a bit hot as of late. So I want to watercool it to bring the temps down.

Is that card I linked a reference design ?

 

[varkanoid]

reference design means standard card as per Nvidia specs not altered by manufacturer, ie modified power circuits etc.

Yours is a reference design card.

 

[Adsta]

Thanks Yay glad mine is a reference card