Hi Bosom,

Yeah same here, newb to the boards and trying to get normal status. Man, I feel your pain about getting out the game, but you had priorities so its all good. And man, getting a GPU that has decent mining specs is about impossible. A buddy and I were somehow able to get the last 3 R9 290's that newegg had a few weeks ago. Everyone is getting in on LTC and scrypt based coins since ASICs are/will be dominating.

Good luck on getting a rig, I would recommend the R9 290, we are able to get 880 Kh/s per card with minimal tweaking.