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What would the best way to do so be? I may be in the market for 60+ 7950's or 280 non x cards.

I'd buy the inventory out of most stores, not to mention the rebate limitations.

Not looking for opinions on practicality of such a thing or what I might make/loose, just looking for cards  ;)

Thanks for looking!

For that quantity you'd be better off going to a distributor like Computer2000 or similar.

try www.newegg.com or www.ncix.com

Newegg and ncix don't even have the inventory to fill an order like this, they barely have enough between the both of them. Not to mention zero discount at all.

Thanks for the pointer Helldriver, you don't know of any US side stores like that do you?

Buy them online.  In late 2011 I bought 80 X 5870's from Ben's Outlet for $139 shipped.  Best decision I ever made. ;)

If I could find 60 for $225ea. they'd be in my shop in a few days  :D

Nice, how much Bitcoin did you manage to mine?

I'd look for someone who has an account with Ingram Micro.

After thinking, you should do some research more before buying 60+ GPU... People already developed FPGA and ASIC for Scrypt mining. Now just waiting for production....

Thanks for the advice!

You don't wait if you want to make money.. You buy when new tech comes and then you sell your old hardware. If you wait you will lose, simple as that.

I am interested in the answer to this as well.

I run 100+ GPUs and just make sure you have the leased space available, as you're not going to want these all in your house.

Also, hope you are in a cooler climate, so you can vent intake/exhaust to handle heat. You also don't want to just go for the newest tech, you want to shoot for the best cost per kh/s, as ROI should be your main goal, not to have a "cool" setup. If you buy used cards, you also don't lose much in resale value of the gear. The gear I bought 6 months ago, can sell for at least 80% what I bought it for. You also need cheap electricity to even consider a large operation.

Certainly won't be running at home, don't even think the service I have there would run this many cards  ;D

Electricity is cheap, no longer free but .08/kwh seems decent enough though. I've got cooling under control as well, but that's something I'd like to keep secret  ;)

It seems I've finally found a distributor that doesn't care about resale licenses and all the BS, don't know how many phone calls I've made today...

It is really a risky business, but yeah good luck :)

Look at my name, I am your biggest nightmare :P

I don't know what you would use those cards for, mining or reselling. But if you could get a good price for them, i did do it if i had the money, as i would make profit anyway.

.041 here :P

You actually beat my .048.

This, I am planing to buy ASIC instead once they are out :)

Yeah you definitely wouldn't have the power to run that many cards at home. Who'd you go with?

I've been following this but there hasn't been any decent product announcement, unless I missed something.. got links?

There is, but you have to go over to litecoin forum which I am too lazy to go there....

I'm on the litecoin and feathercoin forums.. last few tidbits I heard of were 2 competing entities making promises but with no hard proof. One of them was going to be hashing on  youtube this week even.

I'd rather not see it just hash on youtube, I think for the best independent proof they should use a miner account provided by a pool who has volunteered as a 3rd party, this way people can see the actual hash.

10..25mh would definitely be interesting to me. But again, just promises so far.

Those are just rumors, nothing else.

That's really silly. There will not be an ASIC that has a chance at ROI for over a year, while LTC price goes up, and component pricing goes down. You do not want to wait for anything in this realm.

Really? lol

I wish I had the cash to buy 60+ GPU's lol.

Wohoo, now I know why did the LTC difficulty went up so much :)

hey what area are you from? those electricity rates are amazing.

Here are some interesting data

http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_a

Missouri. Great place for my hosting.

And I'm just slightly to the west, cheap power is everywhere  ;D

I assure you cheap power was banned in California.  $0.30 this year serviced by SCE, $0.33 next year  >:(

Cheap power for commercial rates I'm sure. I wish I could get one =/ Or afford 60 gpus haha, hook a brother up!

That is a lot, can you share how are you going to cool them??

Don't do it, unless you tell me how you are trying to cool those 60 cards....

It's not difficult to cool, especially during the winter. My space with over 100 cards is in the 70's ambient temp with just exhaust/intake.

Woohoo, nice... but what about summer?

Im thinking you are password decrypting or litecoin mining.

Go on ebay and buy all the 6990's.

+1 I agree

No thanks, 6990 sucks .... 7990 is better.. :)