Other than drying meat and driving up power bills, can the ASICs be put toward other uses? For example, when the lower end ones become obsolete for bitcoin mining, could they be put toward Folding@home or other distributed computing projects?

My cards appear to be voltage locked. 7970's run too damn hot to worry about voltage 

They dislike anything more than i13 running two threads. Will handle i19 rather well as a single thread, but not optimal. Anything higher than 13 will h/w error like crazy with two threads.

Here's some power consumption, but this is my "best gal" computer doing many things that a miner wouldn't need to do.

You all are wrong.

I'm right.

Hi
I have NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost and if i try mine with cgminer that hash speed is 10.13 Kh/s. Is that really so slow card?

To make a profit off mining bitcoins what hash rate should I be running at? How much should I invest into a rig? and where should I buy my rig?