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Im starting to get the itch like i need to jump from the GPU ship any second now. With the price of BTC going up, and the difficulty about to skyrocket from ASIC madness I see GPU miners as a dying breed. at least quite a few of us will have amazing gaming computers to play on or sell.

What do you guys plan on doing with your rigs once they only mine a fraction of a BTC per year?  ???

There's the opportunity to change to an alternative coin / or do like you said, play some awesome games :)

K.

Coins that use the scrypt algorithm should be ASIC-safe, at least for a while.
The godfather of scrypt coins is Litecoin, then there are also Novacoin and Feathercoin, AFAIK.

http://dustcoin.com/mining

Aren't there FPGAs in the work for Scrypt?

I just look at Scrypt as being 2 years behind Bitcoin but catching up fast.  Since the only thing that makes it difficult is RAM, and RAM is cheap, it's just a matter of a small amount of time before Litecoins are ASICed and thus the idea is dead.

But that's just my 2 cents.

I only started mining coins 3 weeks ago, mostly out of curiosity. Currently getting 0.05 BTC every other day... so if ever it's not worth it anymore I could just as well stop and move on to other things. Of course, alternative currencies like Litecoin could be worth exploring too.

Hard to say. Realistically depending on what cards your using.. The research i recently did, the best video card buy was a HD5830 because its prices is around 100$ and it mines roughly 200-300Mh/s. That's the best buy for mining. Gaming... its a horrible card even in crossfire, if that old of a card can even crossfire. Same to the 5850 :/  My single GTX570 would eat up all 4 of those cards in gaming :P

Litecoins are turning into my new best friend.

My 6970 still destroys most modern games, and i get 420 MH/s when im not destroying my friends on SC or BF3.