HD I/O card opinions please

I'm brinking a purchase of an HD card for my Quad. In the immediate future it's to handle DVCPROHD projects, as everyone and their wife/husband/partner/pet seems to want to shoot with the Varicam these days, but obviously I'll consider other formats fair game too. I'm interested to know the community's opinions on the cards.
Context: Offline editorial mostly, not much finishing. But I'd like to be able to finish and deliver occasionally. So I don't need humungous hardware acceleration of compositing timelines. Monitoring flexibility would be good, so I don't always need HD monitors. I'm (currently) only working with Firewire drives. Yes, contemplating a SATA RAID.
It seems I'm looking at (in order of cost):
DeckLink HD Pro PCIe™
Aurora Pipe HD
Aja Kona LHe
Aja Kona 3
Obvious and pointless answers like "the Kona 3 is the best" or "h4xx0rs want Pipe, it's teh snappy" will be rudely dismissed. In fact, since the Kona 3 is the obvious winner already, maybe it's only about the other three cards. Ladies and Gentlemen, cast your ballots please.

DVCPRO HD does not require a capture card to capture nor work with. FCP has been able to capture that format via firewire ever since FCP 4.5 (the reason it got the moniker 'FCP HD').
BUT...you will need a card to output your finished product to other tape formats, as I do not know of one place that takes a DVCPRO HD master tape. Or, you can output to DVCPRO HD tape and take that to be dubbed at a post facility.
OK...the Kona 3 is the king. Just to let you know, the Aurora Pipe HD has not been released yet, so really it is between the Decklink Pro HD 4:2:2 (or 4:4;4) and the Kona.
Shane

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