Quote from: RandomQ on September 14, 2012, 12:44:16 AM

Quote from: PPoweredP on September 14, 2012, 12:18:11 AM

If you bought your computer just to mine BTC with GPUs then I would say to return it. It will never pay for itself. Ever.

Well its depends on how Fast BFL Ships and When they Start to Ship.

Right now Latest Dates say from BFL says END of October Mostly likely November.

Giving BFL's Past Shipping Record IMHO its going to take 6+ months to ship the Preorders.

AND I'm not mistaken there is currently still a 2 month Backlog of shipment of its current Products.

Plus you have to remember that a large majority of of owners are Upgrading, and that involves shipping to BFL.
And they are going to have to use a huge amount of man power to process incoming upgrades.

If BFL was going to play its cards right it would show pictures of a warehouse full on prebuilt cases waiting for waiting for the ASIC Chip to be installed. Nada not even a working sample

With 15K pre-orders the OP if he orders directly from BFL, won't see a jalapeno for a long time, unless he wins the shipment lottery.(33% shipping to random people in the list)

Besides GPU Rigs aren't going to be suddenly worthless, when BFL ships. If someone tells you that they are drinking the cool-aid.
I can still sell Video cards for 75% of there Value after 6+ months. You gotta remember these are still Computer parts and they can hold value pretty well, you'd be surprised.

And there is always Litecoin when the magic time when its no longer profitable to mine BTC because of ASIC.

I do have a question for the OP, is this your Main Computer or is this just a mining Rig?
And what is your Power costs?

I do have Bets against BFL shipping Anything ASIC in OCT
And I'm willing to purchase Mining Rigs at 10% of current value Grin

He does not need a $1,700 computer to use to mine with ASIC. A $50 one would work just as well.