Yeah, I see buying two ATIs right now is worthless. XD

Now I'm thinking of buying one of those ASICs from Butterfly Labs. From what I can gather in this forum, there's a 50/50 chance of it even being worth it at this point. The guys who bought it first are going to make a lot of money, but if I buy one right now I may never see my money back. I guess I'll let my lucky coin decide, hehe.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong: Assuming the difficulty factor is 20x of what it is right now by the time I receive the system, at 30MH/s I would make around 6 bitcoins per month, so it would take 3 to 4 months or so to recover my initial investment. Is that a fair guess?

Yeah, I've been reading that. I also checked Butterfly Labs even before you mentioned it (found it on wiki hardware comparison sheet). Should I pre-order one of those ASICs then or will that be a waste of money? I mean, according to Butterfly forums they have 20k orders already so soon there will be 20k people with these monsters, LOL. I assume the return rate for mining will go down significantly. The question is, how significantly? If one were to buy the 30GH/s ASIC today, how long will it take to make back the $600? I would do the math myself but I'm too new to this stuff, I'd probably miss something. I hope I'm not being too newbie.

I don't pay for my electricity where I live. Plus I'm saving up to buy a ~525MH/s dual ATI cards.

Does that mean profits will go down for everyone soon? What's an ASIC? 

Yeah, I know that CPU's are worthless compared to GPU's, but there's nothing else running on the CPU and it feels like a waste. It might make my 10BTC payout day come a few hours sooner!

I'm fairly new to Bitcoin mining. I have a Triplemining account as well as 50miner program installed in two computers. I don't have the best graphics chips (as you can see in the picture, lol) however one of the computers is dedicated to mining, so I would like to use its quad-core Phenom II for this purpose as well. What settings do I need to change? Right now I have the following settings, but it uses no more than 25% (one CPU core) at any given moment. Thanks in advance!