I also want to make something that will utilize Nvida cuda to use with a mining rig that I have been putting together. I know mining is not lucrative, I am only building it for puzzles and maybe some AI stuff in the future
Take into account that remaining puzzles still need massive numbers of GPUs to find a solution in a competitive time. I don't think there's a shortcut to this. Your own GPUs aren't for free: you either had or have to buy them and they need energy while they "crunch numbers".
This isn't meant as discouragemant.
Anyway this will be my last post here on the forum, I feel kind of bad that my questions have caused RetiredCoder's thread to go off topic, I did not intend to derail this thread, so I will find some where else to go if I need to ask questions.
That's your decision. You need a thicker skin here.~~~
Oops, well, that's almost embarrassing. 
Apparently I didn't see the forest with all the trees around me... thanks!