GPU Mining

[Eich]

Im starting to get the itch like i need to jump from the GPU ship any second now. With the price of BTC going up, and the difficulty about to skyrocket from ASIC madness I see GPU miners as a dying breed. at least quite a few of us will have amazing gaming computers to play on or sell.

What do you guys plan on doing with your rigs once they only mine a fraction of a BTC per year? 

[Kruncha]

There's the opportunity to change to an alternative coin / or do like you said, play some awesome games

K.

[Becher-Karl]

Coins that use the scrypt algorithm should be ASIC-safe, at least for a while.
The godfather of scrypt coins is Litecoin, then there are also Novacoin and Feathercoin, AFAIK.

http://dustcoin.com/mining

[shepd]

Aren't there FPGAs in the work for Scrypt?

I just look at Scrypt as being 2 years behind Bitcoin but catching up fast.  Since the only thing that makes it difficult is RAM, and RAM is cheap, it's just a matter of a small amount of time before Litecoins are ASICed and thus the idea is dead.

But that's just my 2 cents.

[zomby2d]

I only started mining coins 3 weeks ago, mostly out of curiosity. Currently getting 0.05 BTC every other day... so if ever it's not worth it anymore I could just as well stop and move on to other things. Of course, alternative currencies like Litecoin could be worth exploring too.

[mrkubanftw]

Hard to say. Realistically depending on what cards your using.. The research i recently did, the best video card buy was a HD5830 because its prices is around 100$ and it mines roughly 200-300Mh/s. That's the best buy for mining. Gaming... its a horrible card even in crossfire, if that old of a card can even crossfire. Same to the 5850 :/  My single GTX570 would eat up all 4 of those cards in gaming

[Eich]

Litecoins are turning into my new best friend.

My 6970 still destroys most modern games, and i get 420 MH/s when im not destroying my friends on SC or BF3.