so after not attempting mining in a solid 5 years, i tried to get this going on my home system.  It was not too bad at all to set up.  I had a little trial and error with drivers and figuring out the best settings for my gpu/cpu, but all in all i got it started churning out hashes in like 15 minutes the first go around!

Since then i started renting time on a cloud VM provider and have been having some fun hashing big numbers for a pool that started up a few days ago.