I got into mining in December and only really started to go dedicated the past few months. I already had a 6950, 6450 and 6770m. I bought a 5830 for $80 and the rest of the system was already in my spare parts.

Personally, I wouldn't risk much. I could probably resell the GPU at $80 and I will not buy a GPU for more than 3 months ROI. The only reason I got a single jalapeno is because I had the spare BTC I had already mined and I have a lot of fun mining so I want to remain the small fry I am now later my multiplying my hashrate by 4. I figure if everything goes to shit, no loss for me.

It's a matter of risk assessment. I do it because it is fun but I wouldn't risk much and I advise the same. That said, who can tell the future? Some good points were made either way:
-network rate will increase if BFL delivers. ie, 1/2TH is the new GH
-If something goes to shit, be it insane difficulty increase or major value drop, you won't be able to pay off your debt
-The ASIC will have very little resale value because not many people use SHA256 dedicated hashing processors
-A lot of people may drop out if GPU mining becomes worthless and the majority of the network hashrate will be in the power of the remaining. Perhaps this will lower the total to make it profitable to them?
-There's still that drop to 25BTC reward.
-What about that time period where not many people have had their ASIC delivered yet? Except unless you pre-ordered, it might be too late for that for you.
-What are your electricity costs?

Here's my big question: How much are you looking to invest and do you plan on maintaining it all yourself?

Based on your total sold, the value of all before shipping and taxes is $276,559. The total transaction value that went through bitpay to buy these in the first 24-hours was $250,000 (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/bitcoin/prweb9637829.htm), if the article is to be believed.

I'd like to request a new column, out of interest. Transaction type B (bitpay/BTC) or W (wire transfer)

So is Freicoin dead now?

24 June 2012 00:53 EST | 1842 | N | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | mokahless

There's only one problem with this thread. It does not take into account time zones. I recommend converting all dates to UTC.
Also, if you do add that extra Column, Country: Canada, Transaction type: BTC

Best interface ever. Been using it since 1.0. For some reason though, recently, I've had to manually update it. I'm on wi-fi and had no issues before. But it hasn't automatically updated in a few days, even after rebooting my phone.

Just wondering what everyone's opinion is on CGminer's backup pools without --failover-only?
So in other words, does anyone have any idea if leaking work to other pools would increase or decrease overall efficiency?
I used to have just BTCGuild set up but not I have backups at Deepbit and P2Pool. Haven't been running the backups very long but I seem to be getting ~0.005BTC every time a block is found (3 times today in the last 24-hours). I haven't had this setup long enough to determine if BTCGuild is affected to a major degree or not, especially with the small, non-configurable estimation window. Deepbit averages ~20MH/s in a 60 minute window.
I'm running windows 1x 840MHz unlocked 6950, 1x 725MHz 6450, 1x stock 6770m and linux 1x 1.02GHz 5830 all with CGminer.
Thoughts?

*you're using*

It's not inefficient by much. There are a lot more inefficient cards past the 4xxx series.

ok... so?

I started with a 6950 I had for gaming. Eventually added a 6450 for more monitors then bought a 6770m laptop for gaming and more recently, a 5830 for $80. If you can find a used 5xxx, 6xxx or 7xxx series video card they will be way more efficient at mining and a great place to start. The 4xxx series work but are terribly inefficient. My 5830 gets 327MH/s at 1020MHz core speed at 61*C using cgminer in BAMT. There's also a CGminer for windows. Even though it is a command line tool, I find it easier to use than GUIminer, personally.

If you get free electricity, keep mining. Or if you have low-cost electricity and find you just enjoy mining, keep at it 

As everyone said, you'll definitely want to mine in a pool.

I was just wondering what everyone's experience is with CGminer's backup pool settings. I currently have BTCGuild as my primary and deepbit as my backup pool. I experimented with P2Pool for a bit over 24-hours but the payout was < 50% of that of BTCguild. So I have it set now as my backup of my backup pool. Logical, since it won't go down.
I'd like some thoughts on this and backup pools in general but I also have a few questions.
I use CGminer and have these set as my backup pools. I'm not using the --failover-only switch and am wondering if this could be more or less efficient overall in everyone's experience? What do you think a good idea is with regards to this switch?
I also wouldn't mind any thoughts on P2Pool aswell.

Think of this thread as a discussion on the various topics mentioned above.

These guys have been around forever:
https://www.cavirtex.com/home

I've only dealt with them BTC--> EMT not the other way around though.

So if no one PM's you, here's another option.

What's your website? Is it viable to host from home?

October 28th with 870W

Longest troll thread ever. Why hasn't it been locked? The original author hasn't posted since.

Never heard of this pool. Are you sure you are bitcoin mining?

The 4xxx series is the oldest series to have OpenCL support... and the least efficient. That said, it all depends. In Ontario, electricity rates average <0.09$ (we have different rates for different times of the day, as low as 0.06$ at night). If I were paying electricity, I would still break even.

So much for fear. I've invested $80 in a 5830 and $40 in an Antec VP450 and used some of my spare parts with a motherboard box as a case with holes cut for venting. Accumulated ~30BTC and recently spent most of it on a pre-order with BFL. Started playing around with p2pool. But over 24-hours later my "Payout if a block were found NOW:" is only 0.17BTC. I expected less but I can make 0.4-0.45BTC with a centralized pool...

I'm just wondering if it's out there or not.

Ordered one J #1842 via bitpay.
High order number because I took a few hours to decide. I had accumulated just barely enough bitcoins for the purchase from my 6950 + 6450 and more recent 5830 over the past 6 months. I only recently started doing the mining 24-7. Assuming no difficulty change, it'll take me until September to gain it all back again 
Let's see what happens.