Has anyone done specific calculations on various hardware for what can be expected when the ASIC stuff comes out from butterfly labs? Their website claims that "no one will be able to mine with FPGA/GPU hardware after October."
Is this a true statement?
If they or their competitors actually do ship in October, then yes, ASICs will, in short order raise difficulty maybe 2X or more after a matter of a couple weeks. Come December 3rd (or thereabouts) the difficulty drop will cut miner payouts by half again, instantly
Basically I'm wondering if I should try to sell this hardware now while I still can since the 8000 series of GPUs are due out in a week or two (not that anyone can get one then but..). I would hate to get "stuck" with hardware I can't use anymore. I'm not a game enthusiast.
I don't know the resale market but ... mining profitability is still pretty decent right now thanks to a decent exchange rate (yes, even with the weekend selloff). Depending on what you pay for electricity, you probably will get more out of milking our GPU until December than what you will gain by selling a used 7970 today versus selling it 100 days from now.