Just thought I would share.

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Originally Posted by altereDad

Looks interesting, but I would be as leery as others in regards. I guess it takes that leap of faith.

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Really no leap of faith it's all math.

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Originally Posted by werty316

I just noticed that you said you ordered four of single units :eek2:

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Yea I would like to keep earning at least a grand a month.

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Originally Posted by Joshua_Mahr

You get payments from mining whenever you choose. You can invest whatever you want, but I would look at it as a hobby don't do any all for broke investing. Like I sad I ordered quite a few products from BFLabs. But you can get your foot in the door for just 159.00. To spend money on a new GPU at this point would not be wise. You can also get there older product the BFL single. It's 80W at 850MH/s. Then you can also trade those in at 100% toward and ASIC when they are released.

CD's do you have an AMD/ATI Gpu?

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So I have to buy into the program then to get started? Not sure if I could do it then if I have to do that then since I'm pretty cash strapped and will be for a while at least.

As for GPU, I'm going to be building my system sometime this week and it will have a 7870 :). I also have nearly enough parts to build me another computer - slower - computer and I have a 4670 I can throw in there.

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Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

So I have to buy into the program then to get started? Not sure if I could do it then if I have to do that then since I'm pretty cash strapped and will be for a while at least.

As for GPU, I'm going to be building my system sometime this week and it will have a 7870 :). I also have nearly enough parts to build me another computer - slower - computer and I have a 4670 I can throw in there.

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There is no buy in. You can use you HD7870 and start right away. The 4670 wont work. 5xxx or above.

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Originally Posted by Joshua_Mahr

There is no buy in. You can use you HD7870 and start right away. The 4670 wont work. 5xxx or above.

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Awesome! So, I guess I would need to make an account then?

5770 doing nothing right now. looks interesting.

Damn josh, Quit reminding me of how much I gotta come live in your garage and do all this with you...lol

Yea CD. Download the bitcoin client and pick a pool to mine with. I suggest BTCGuild.com or CoinOTron.com

You can get the wallet client from here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitc...bitcoin-0.7.2/

So I just run it on my GPU and sit back and make cash? Where's the catch? Also, how do I mine?

The catch is it is a slow process and it costs electricity. That's it. If you have just one GPU going don't expect a lot from it. I would just check it out on your gpu and get a feel for it. Then consider purchasing something from Butterfly Labs, as the new hardware is gonna be fast.

And how do you get paid? Is it through PayPal? And, I imagine that a faster GPU would be better than a slower GPU? And of course, the more GPUs the faster the processing would go?

I believe Paypal is an option but I cannot confirm. Josh can confirm that one.

The premise is similar to how Nvidia GPUs are superior in folding@home when compared to AMD GPUs; AMD has the upper hand in bitcoin mining and the more stream processors a GPU has equals a faster mine time.

I tried it on my Radeon 5850. Going to take about a month to generate 1 BTC, and it's slowing down the Windows UI. Doesn't seem worth it.

If a miner gets interrupted for whatever reason, will the miner:

1. Have to start all over
2. Pick up from where it left off
3. Start a new miner and start from the beginning of that new miner
4. Something else entirely?

Just more questions I have about this :).

Sorry in Hospital. My Son came yesterday so I am a little slow on posting.

CD if a miner gets disconnected it will just wait and reconnect. A Gpu spits out a share every few seconds its not like a WU for folding where it takes forever.

Werty: You should be able to get 350+ MH/s from a 5850. Remember you want to raise the gpu clock and drop the mem clock to like 300. 350MH/s= 1.6BTC a month. So about 21.50 a month. Which your right it is not much. Thats why I say try and learn with the gpu and then think about getting BFLabs hardware!