New FPGA rig or ugrade my gaming rig?

[g0reDon]

hi

i own a MSI Z77 MPower Mainboard, i5-3570K, ATI5870, 8GB RAM, SSD  ... just a solid gaming rig with a lightly outdated GPU...

without any long pre-story:
i was thinking about buying 2 more 5870s but it's hard to find, so i decided to buy 3x 7950s

but... what about this baby:
http://www.nallatech.com/opencl-fpga-accelerator-cards.html

i can't find any price and sorry for this beginner-question, but how can i calculate a expected hashrate of the card? or how do i even KNOW if it will do his job?
is it as easy as i hope, plugin, install drivers, install (or config) cgminer, rdy2go ?

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[g0reDon]

could an admin pls move this thread to "Custom Hardware ASIC, FPGA, ..."
just saw the right topic for my question

[dogie]

FPGA doesn't mean mining.

[Bitweasil]

Cards like that cost "If you have to ask you can't afford it."  They're also not going to be supported by the normal mining tools unless you port them to it.

If you're asking about it, you probably don't have the VHDL/Verilog experience to do it.

[g0reDon]

you got me.... i dont have any deeper experience then assembling PCs for normal use, some overclocking, nothing special.

but i'm playing arroung with hardware since 15 years and still love it... i just thought "...what would be when...."
but understood you, this card is used in servers and its price has 4 digits... this was help enough at this point

so i keep tracking my first plan, to buy some better gaming hardware.... at least i can use it for "crysis4" at  4K-HD ;P or sell the gaming cards....

do you think 7950s are a good choice? (all in all, now some mining, later gaming or sell at fair price)

[anderl]

hi

i own a MSI Z77 MPower Mainboard, i5-3570K, ATI5870, 8GB RAM, SSD  ... just a solid gaming rig with a lightly outdated GPU...

without any long pre-story:
i was thinking about buying 2 more 5870s but it's hard to find, so i decided to buy 3x 7950s

but... what about this baby:
http://www.nallatech.com/opencl-fpga-accelerator-cards.html

i can't find any price and sorry for this beginner-question, but how can i calculate a expected hashrate of the card? or how do i even KNOW if it will do his job?
is it as easy as i hope, plugin, install drivers, install (or config) cgminer, rdy2go ?

those are $6k to 12k per card

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could an admin pls move this thread to "Custom Hardware ASIC, FPGA, ..."
just saw the right topic for my question

you can move it yourself

[ISAWHIM]

Wait, what??? These cards can be used to play games too! I thought these were only for mining! (Talking about 7950's )