Well, Im sure there is a hardware forum here, but since I'm such a newb, I'll post my questions here.
5750 Vapor-X 195GH/S - - 125W 975/300CLOCKING - 2.4 PCI-E 1.1 x16
cgminer 2.7.5 (O.S. Ubuntu 12.01 AMD64 dedicated) cgminer options -Q 0 -I 9 -g 2 -w 256 --auto-fan --temp-target 65 --gpu-vddc 1.075 (Fan speed 60~65%)
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Should get 195 MH/s out of each video card pulling 125 watts each I hope this means with 2 cards, I should get 350MHs. I'm not certain, but we will know eventually
bitminer investment (still need case, powersupply and heatsink.
80 Gig +40 gig HDD 0
2 radeon cards 100
fan 6" cpufan 10
motherboard with 2 gig 50
memory ASUS m4 a87EVO mobo
has 2 pci-e slots for video cards
AMD Athlon II X2 B24 3.0GHz 2x1MB Socket AM3 Dual-Core CPU
processor 46
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subtotal 210
budget for case, 700wps and heatsink for amd 90-115$
Total investment 300-325
This is a 30 calculation
http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/difficulty 10,455,720,138.00
Mining Factor 100 0.00 USD/24h@100MHash/s as in these charts
Average generation time for a block (solo) 3 years, 291 days (can vary greatly depending on your luck)
Hardware break even 33 days
Net profit first time frame -22.24 USD
Coins per 24h at these conditions 0.0180 BTC
Power cost per 24h 0.90 USD
Revenue per day 10.23 USD
Less power costs 9.33 USD
System efficiency 1500.00 MH/s/W
Mining Factor 100 at the end of the time frame 0.00 USD/24h@100MHash/s
Average Mining Factor 100 0.00 USD/24h@100MHash/s
Power cost per time frame 27.39 USD
Revenue per time frame 305.16 USD
Less power costs 277.76 USD
This seems almost too good for a home mining rig... Am I missing something?