New Mining Rig

[dice83]

So, finally got the rig running perfectly. It was the motherboard giving me the issues originally. Upgraded to:

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3
AMD Sempron 145 Processor
Corsair Vengeance Blue 8 GB (2X4 GB) (since my old RAM was DDR2, heh totally forgot about that until I tried putting my old RAM in the new board. "Why won't this fit?!?! Ohhh, right.")

I ditched SMOS and BAMT for PiMP (http://getpimp.org) - what a difference. Cards are running like champs and what a simple, painless and quick process. Loving Lily's Pool Manager as well.

So, already thinking about having this GPU rig start mining the ASIC proof currencies and purchasing a few GridSeeds for the ASIC capable coins. Pretty much any profit made will be spent on more hardware for mining.

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[Holm]

So, just finished putting together my mining rig, have a few more tweaks. Specifically, dummy plugs and jumping the PCI-E x1 slots on my motherboard.
Build is as follows:
 
3x Asus R9 280X's - R9280X-DC2T-3GD5
1300 Watt EVGA PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 1300G2
Gigabyte Motherboard - ga-ep45-UD3L from an old computer
4GB Corsair RAM
1 double wide milkcrate + wood holders
2 PCI 16x to 1x risers - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I4BUUKM/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
1 PCI 16x to 16x riser - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008BZBFTG/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm using SMOS - I removed the auto donation script and will give the guy a few bucks instead.
Still learning a lot, especially how to tune the cards, how to configure BAMT (SMOS) correctly, and getting all 3 cards to function correctly. If I can, I may squeak another R9 280X in there, but that may be overdoing it for the PSU.

Looking for a few people to collaborate with and for suggestions in regards to which coins to mine, pools, etc.

what pool do you use?