Quote from: Glenjo on December 10, 2012, 05:58:46 AM

i have 2-3 spare copies of windows 7, is linux or ubuntu and better than windows 7?

It doesnt really matter. Linux distrubutions provide built in SSH-capabilities to access miners remotely thou and they are free. I prefer linux.

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I have been messing around with guiminer and cannot for the life of me get it to locate my graphics card to scope out how it all is set up. Are ATI graphics cards far superior?

ATI (or AMD) cards are indeed superior compared to nvidia cards. ASIC devices will be far superior than both of these.

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From what i have gathered from my research and the comments from Isokivi, nyusternie and Gabi to hold off on the asics until delivered and proven since i dont know the full ins and outs of everything.

I agree. Wait until asics start shipping.

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I know by doing research that ill be operating at a loss, in terms of electricity costs (that of which i do not pay for rarely), but i was thinking of just building a rough 250Mh/s machine just to refresh my knowledge of building computers and to test to see if i can build a rig. Then possibly look into a FGPA as mentioned before or just build another rig for the benefits of economies of scale. I completely understand that this is a community and also for some a main source of income, I also understand that I will be faced with some hurdles along the way and hopefully i can get to the stage of acquirering more knowledge then be able to impart it on others who are interested in bitcoins and their mining.

any other suggestions and criticisms are more than welcome.
thanks once again

Wellcome to bitcoin.