"shot in the dark" and "really speculative" doesn't sound good in my ears. If I could get a really cheap system I would definitly try it. But as far I could think it doesn't seem to be a good idea. I have a bit bad feelings about this. Well I have a friend with amd I'll ask him to try it. Maybe I can get some spare bitcoins from him 

Hmm I think I'll go back to adsense and affiliate marketing for my extra pocket money (adsense works great for me) Maybe I can manage to get my second project to get off, it is possible that it gets huge.

Meh too much the offtopic... thanks for advice and happy mining.

Hmm this sounds good. So more or less the Jalapeno is the best start. 3,5 gh/s for (overall + shipping) about 200$. But isn´t this until October or so?

(Also your post sounds like Spam lol)

Hey guys,

I´ve read about bitcoins a while ago, but didn´t do anything back then. Now I thought "Hey why not give it a shot?" After my usual approach into something new (1-2 hours research) I decided to start this topic. There are some things that are just not clear and I hope you´ll clear them up for me

First thing I realized is that AMD >>>>>> Nvidia. My gaming PC runs Nvidia so I´ll "need" a new one. I would have no problem buying one since I got the money and no other Idea what I should do with it. I could use the new one dedicated and 24/7.

I found out that 5850 and 5870 are doing pretty well for the price. Overall I could spend 1000$ so they are my priceclass. (And I try to get 1mh/s for 1$)

The problem is that most topics I found with interesting info date back to 2011. There they state "Yeah good rig you could make about 800-900$ per month." and also some with even higher earnings. At the first moment this sounds really good. One month and I got my investment back. But I know that difficulty has increased since this date (and also some inflation happened). So I put the numbers into this fancy calculator http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php

Current difficulty factor: 1726566.55919 (that´s 4 times higher than stated in one post dating back to 2011)
1000 mh/s
Current exchangerate: 6.62886

So... I make about 117$ per month. That's not THAT bad but... is it worth letting a computer run 24/7? So I could say after 10 Month (in reality it´s for sure higher because of the difficulty increase and costs) I got the investment back and start make some profit. From the numbers I saw I´ve expected at least a bit more. Am I missing a point?

But how far is this number from reality? It seems just too low. Don´t tell me there are lots of people doing this for a few extrabucks per month.

Some people will say I missed the boat... I should´ve started earlyer. But I don´t want to miss the boat. I´ve already missed some boats, I just don´t want to miss another one.

So is it possible to get any real numbers and not just out of calculators? How much mh/s you got and how much money you get out of it?
As I said the most helpful threads seem to be heavily outdated. I would also donate some BTC for really helpful advice but at the moment I have none Maybe I´ll start mining and if so, I´ll think back to this thread and donate some.

Thanks in advance and greets,
exI

Also what about the jalapeno?