Thanks! 

My plan was to use a pool that switches to the most profitable coin at the time to mine and then pays out in btc.    The electricity here is decently cheap so I should still be ahead some.  Plus the adventure sounds fun.

Are you saying that the asics will make card mining obsolete? 

I have the option to purchase a rig with 3 new 7950s for 1 btc ($565). 

Is this a good deal?  I want to get into mining altcoins and converting them to btc. 

Any advice is great!  Thanks!

Thanks!

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I am new to all of this and learning a lot about bitcoin and the alt coins out there.  There are so many!  Will be interesting to see where everything goes and what ends up being useful for people.