I ordered mine on 6/30/05. Received 7/5/05. I opted for the free fedex shipping. This is a very good OEM package. It looks retail, no generic white box. The card itself looks just like an ATI card (ATI sticker on fan) No connect3D logos anywhere on the card it?s self.
First buying experience with Monarch. They?re good to go, I?d buy from them again.
BTW, I also purchased a gig (2x512) of PC-5400 Corsair XTreme Series (TWIN2X1024A-5400UL) for 244.90. I thought I was tipped off on that price from a post here, but I can?t find the thread. However, when I found the memory on the website, they were out of stock, but had an ETA of 4 July. I called them up to see if they already had buyers for that shipment. The sales guy told me they had already sold all of the 4 July shipment. I decide to just buy it from newegg. When I checked neweggs price, I decided I would wait, and I went ahead and ordered it from monarch. Newegg was nearly $70 more!
Turned out I didn?t have to wait. The sales guy at Monarch told me to order the video card and memory separately so the video card would go ahead and ship.
About three hours later, I got an email from monarch with fedEx tracking numbers for both. Sure enough, I got both the same day. No waiting, and their website said they were out of stock. I don?t understand what happened, but OK.
I see they?ve jumped the price up to 321.00 now.
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant...PROD&Product_Code=140572&AFFIL=pg&NR=1