He spent about 30k total.  He think hes gonna be a millionaire in a year.  Not sure how big of a chunk the power is gonna cost him, but im sure its gonna be a lot. 

I have a friend who just went and bought 30 5970's and I was wondering is it worth it in to go that big.  Its about .12cents a kwh here. I think he might be a lil crazy to go that big. What do you guys think?

If you are lookin to see how much you will make with your current card you can look it up here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

Find your card and put you hash rate into:

http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php

You can look up exactly what card you have with:

http://www.ozone3d.net/gpu_caps_viewer/


 I myself get a very low hash rate.  Equals out to be 14$/month with the current exchange rate.  I ended up hooking up all my computers in the house to mine.  I'll end up with about 45$ a month which isn't really to bad will be enough to get another video card soon.  I already have plans to build a new rig.  -_- damn you bitcoin you are addicting.  There is a nice hardware guide out there if your interested I can post up a link.  

  http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php

 There you go, that should tell you what you wanna know. The current value of a bitcoin is 11.2 usd at least it was last I looked. 

True is it 14$ I wouldnt have had.  I'm just not sure its worth it to run my computer all the time.  I'm kinda worried about the longevity of my video card too.   It is actually pretty fun to see how many its made even if it is only 0.02btc.

 Is it worth it for people with low hash speeds to bitcoin mine?  With my lows speeds of about 100mhash/s, is it even worth it to mine considering on a mining calculator i'd only end up with about 14$ a month. lol   Is mining only profitable for ppl with expensive rigs pushing a high hash rate, or can someone like myself with a low speed make it a semi-profitable venture.   I think the concept is really cool and I'm enjoying playing with it.      Anyways, thank you for your time and patience.    oh, and thank you in advance for any replies.

He just doesnt really understand how money is generated from it.   Btw if I may ask, is it even worth it for me to mine with i only get 75mhash/s?   I looked at a calculator and it seem like I'd only be able to make 13$ in a months time.  XD Seems pretty bad from letting my computer 24/7, or does the pooling worth differently?      Thank you for all the replies.    Maybe one day i'll be able to pay it forward.

ty for the reply.  I switched to deepbit.  I have a work and the mode is set to pps. So hopefully thats how u do it.  Just out of curious how long will it take to actually see any kinda money from farming?   Im still not 100% sure how this all works yet.   I'm not sure my computer will be good enough to make any kinda money. XD   and damn u have a nice looking set up.    Can i come over and play crysis on ur computer? XD    Ty for the help.    

on a side note, My friends thinks in crazy for trying bitcoin out. 

 hmm maybe i just didnt let it run log enough. Ah I see. I was only running with the cpu, and here I installed drivers to make it openCL last night. Thanks jrtubs for pointing that out.

I followed http://www.newslobster.com/random/how-to-get-started-using-your-gpu-to-mine-for-bitcoins-on-windows  guide. I sent a worker up on the slush pool and got connected to it guess i'll just have to wait and see.
   I have bitcoin and GUI miner running.  Im not sure if im missing something.  Not really sure how to set up a pps i guess i got some goggling to do. I hate feelin like a noob. XD    thank you for the replies. I really appreciate them.

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I got my miner working with my video card now.   its at 78.9mhash/s  seems really low still XD   My shares: 11  not really sure if any of that is good or bad.  lol   Just curious, but if you set more workers up does that make it go faster, and if I set this all up on a different computer i can just log into a worker on the same account right?     Once again they you for all ur time.

So, I just installed bitcoin and GUIMiner. I set it to my deepbit.net account, and well I'm pretty much stuck on what to do next. @_@ At the bottom of GUMiner it says, shares: 0 accepted  and  650khash/s.    Im not really sure what i do from here... any help would be very much appertained.  Thank you for your time an patients.

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I went to slush's pool and it seem like its set up right... but... umm how do i know if its working?   Or do i just have to let it run for a while before i notice.  Sorry if thats a really stupid question.   All in all it seems like bitcoins might be pretty fun to mess with.

Hello, Just heard about bitcoins today, a friend of a friend said he as making 6k a month doin this so i though i'd check it out.   Even tho i dont totally grasp the concept it sounds interesting.   anyways though i'd stop by and say hi.  XD