Болят ли у тебя зубы ?
у меня частая проблема!

Actually the 6950's are on sale right now I can get them for about $230 each and looking up the benchmarks they seem pretty decent, I might pick up 2 of those.  The 6970's are like closer to $400 each and while they have a bit more mining power they also only have like 3-10 more fps than the 6950 I find it hard to justify that...I also heard you can flash the bios to make it a 6970 but I have no idea how that works.

Well the main thing is if I change over to ATI I want to have at least a step up from my current GTX470's because otherwise I'm ripping apart my computer from what I originally intend to use it for (mining at night and at work).  So does anyone have suggestions for cards? I have a 850W power supply and my board supports 3x CrossfireX (I believe).  I have about $700ish to "invest" but at the most I'd like to break even in some reasonable amount of time - I'm doing this for fun but I also don't want to go broke I'm heading back to school this fall.

Anyway I have a morning shift coming up I'll check back in the AM - I just have no idea how these new ATI cards benchmark vs Nvidia's.

Edit: I don't know much about the market at the moment but if 1 coin is trading at $18USD on MtGox then it shouldn't take forever to recover it. Am I wrong to assume that?

I figured as much - any cards you could recommend? I have no idea how all these different ones fall on the ladder with respect to Nvidia.

So I'm new to the whole Bitcoin mining thing and I have to say it is quite interesting.  Currently I'm running an X58 motherboard with an i7 930 and 2xGTX470's in SLI.  This motherboard I have supports Crossfire and since this Bitcoin thing is kinda cool I'm here now because I haven't followed ATI products in years.  I would like recommendations for a videocard (or cards) that I can use for mining as well as gaming that is an upgrade to what I currently run on a Windows 7 64bit system.

The Nvidia cards are terrible at mining, I know and they are so damn loud and hot - the only thing I do know is that ATI cards are cooler and don't use as much power and certainly way better at mining...Am I too late to join in this whole mining thing? I was doing this for fun and to hopefully come up with some spare change or who knows maybe trade some BTC for something cool, I was totally eying that FLCL blu-ray collection but I already have that on dvd.

Probably the most important thing to me is to at least break even with what I'd be investing in the cards.  I know I could make a cheap rig dedicated to mining but I really don't have the room for it nor really the desire to pay more on my electric bill, this computer is on 24/7 so I may as well be doing something with it.

Thanks in advance.