What Santz said. Do not under any circumstances plug that in unless you're planning on cooling your card with Liquid Nitrogen. It activates the defrost for the memory.
Put the replacement card back in my rig a few minutes ago and indeed it gave me the green/aqua type color again. Taking your advice this time, Santz and sent a message to Adam@ASUS to see how we go about getting me fixed up. Always have faith in ASUS...
Just got my replacement card in from Newegg. Looks like the LED panel on this one has a yellow tint to it as well. Unfortunately, I have to get ready to go to work in a few minutes so I won't be able to install it in the tower until tomorrow to know ...