I'm surprised not more people are using Coinlab to hedge their GPU mining.
I'm not, they have stated their goal is distributed processing on nvidia hardware - ati wont be optimum for the work they are planning.
99.99% of gpus on Bitcoin are ATI...
on topic my 6950s have well paid for themselves and I have sold the good ones off, my 7970s I could sell and they would cover their cost i.e. earnt Bitcoin + resale value
I have 2 FPGA that will run after I turn off GPUs, not sure if they will cover their costs, but being dev boards I can sell them to someone not planning to Bitcoin mine on them when thier time comes.
I was lucky enough to win a spot in the jalepeno que on a raffle - never trusted BFL enough to send them money, but gambling a few coins in a raffle? no worries
I did order a bASIC and look forward to turning off my hot GPU's now that (my) summer is rapidly approaching
from what I see a lot of "traditional" mines are either stopping mining or moving to next generation mining hardware, everyone has their own situation to consider - hey, even today people still mine Bitcoins on CPU, I am sure in 6 months time there will be "free power" people claiming gpus still make them Bitcoins. which for the returns defies sense
The big change I see coming is newer miners wont be able to jump in and try on existing hardware, mining has brought a lot of people to Bitcoin, soon they will need to buy dedicated hardware to participate.
my 0.0000002
BTC worth