Thank you torusJKL for a very helpful post. I was a bit worried about delivery date too after reading my posts here about pre-order nightmare so I emailed them asking their delivery date and no response yet.

For other choices in hardware, what do you recommend? I prefer add-in card like the Monarch because it's easier to have someone in US order 1 for me and ship to me in Vietnam.

I mine cryptonium here http://crn.mineallcoins.com/ but i have not the faintest idea of what to do in order to have poll mining. I have done everything the get started page asked...