I realize I'm rather late to the BitCoin mining community, but since I live in the west and power is cheap, my computers are on anyway, and I've got time for a new hobby, this one sounded like fun
Been reading forums and posts and such for a week or so now. have 3 computers GPU farming (GTX 560, Radeon HD 5700, and an HD 7770) Didn't buy anything new, just the cards I already have.
Setup on BitMinter.com for my pool, the extra NMC doesn't seem bad and their miner was stupid-proof
I also like their API so i can watch my balance and farm rate on my android. Not advertising for them just happy to share what I've found and have been using.
I would love to find a miner that will automatically pause or turn itself down when a game or something is launched (Wife's computer, the GTX 560, doesn't mine and run minecraft at the same time so well). Not a big deal to manually pause and restart it, but if we didn't need to it would be even better.
I really enjoy learning about new things and am happy to find a new hobby, even if I've missed the megabucks years
Cheers!