Thats good. He wanted 400 when I PMed him. I just got one off ebay for $320, granted it was a newegg diamond card but whatev.

Short and sweet. 

How much are 5970s going for these days? Are they still worth it?

Even for micrometer process nodes, it's still in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it'll take forever to recover that amount and it's super high risk.

In other words, imagine you wanted to test out an AND gate. You can program an fpga on the fly to represent an AND gate. An ASIC is fabricated and can only do what it was designed to do. So in this simple example, it could only ever act as an AND gate, because the logic ant be changed. This is a very simplistic answer. Hope it doesnt confuse more than it helps.

FPGAs are programmed with synthesized hdl code that actually represents the logic that eventually gets turned into ASICs like the GPUs in all these graphic cards.

Ive been logged in 4 hours and made more than one post. According to the rules I should be able to pm. But I cant.

Hi hi. How many posts do you need to post in other forums?