Quote from: JohnCoiner on January 11, 2014, 08:20:20 AM

ASUS Maximus V Gene
i5 3570K (Stock Clock)
Vertex 4 128GB
Seasonic SS-760XP2 760W

In total I've spent around $660. All I lack is a GPU, but with the price hikes IDK if investing in one now would be worth it.

As the other poster indicated, when it comes to GPU mining rigs, the CPU is irrelevant. A celeron will do the job. You'll want a motherboard which can handle 2+ GPU's, and a solid PSU. A GPU sucks around 200W, depending on the card, so a 760W can probably handle two GPU's comfortably, but not three. So you may want to consider restarting your quest

As for the train leaving the station, maybe. A 1 mh/s system will probably earn just under $10 a day at the moment, if you're mining the alt-currencies (not LTC), so maybe $300 a month (this is not considering electricity costs). That will pay off your equipment fairly quickly, so it seems a reasonably good investment still. Admittedly, these returns are around half what they were 4-6 weeks ago. I don't think anyone really knows what's going to happen, though. Those daily rates could go up, they could go down. Today they're more than they were yesterday, but less than they were a week ago.