Granted I already have a rock solid motherboard/CPU P9X79 Pro Intel 4930K, about to be water cooled with 16 gigs of ram.

My rig is not the problem.

If I drop some cash on 3 R9's would that be suitable.

And I can safely OC the shit out of it.

I need to learn more about altcoins

That would probably be more useful as a gaming computer as well as altcoin miner. Mining bitcoins with it would be useless

How long will these be profitable?

I am looking for a short term solution while I try to figure which way I want to go with my rig.

It's so hard to figure out what the best bang for the buck is with the upcoming hardware coming out.

The Antminer S1s do not look to bad, but how quickly will they stop breaking even in the near future?

I know that I could hold onto a few for a x-amount of time, toss it on ebay and screw some poor person.

Hmm, decisions, decisions.

I would rather not buy straight bit coins because I have some thing up my sleeve.

Any help would be welcome because I am looking to start ASAP.

I am trying to build a dedicated mining rig with a budget of roughly 10K.

Should I buy a bunch of GPUs run the hell out of them, and them sell them when the ASICs chips come out?

I hear a lot about how GPU mining is not worth the investment, but if you are new and want to front run the ASICs cards. And then use profits to purchase to upgrade is this a feasible solution?