$5,000 budget

[Tekkit_kev]

Thank you all for your answers. I will probably go with a 80/20 route(Invest 4K to a rig, 1K to investments). My plan to to try to get a hold of some 290's(unless someone has better suggestions) and might invest in a small ASIC mining machine to run parallel with it.

Another noobish question, is there a way to make a wallet on an offline computer and have the mining machine sync with it through my home network? 

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[kostja]

Scrypt mining:

8MHs Rig will return ~$65 if you mine LTC. But if you mine DOGE ~$95

Rates according to http://www.coinwarz.com/

test profitability here http://switchercoin.com/

[Andi]

I believe it would be too much of a gamble to buy an ASIC miner. Everyone is doing it, and by the time you actually receive the rig, the difficulty could have shot up so much! I posted this calculator, that kind of put me off https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=396078.0