Quote from: SoundMoney4aFreeSociety on February 06, 2012, 11:10:50 PM

Joshwaa...I don't really have a farm set up yet I have a three gaming pc's that will be running part time here soon...I have resources and capital I just am not tech savvy I build gaming pc's for fun but other than that I'm really limited on what I can and can't do when it comes to computers...I don't want to waste any resources until I figure out the best and most cost effective way to start mining...A lot of the security issues are way over my head as well a hacker could kill me and take my stuff fairly easy I'm pretty sure and I wouldn't even know what was going on until after it was gone so i've been spending some time trying to read all the information available so that I won't do anything foolish without really understanding... do you have recommendations on a trusted e-wallet for bitcoin because once i get that i am interested in investing...and do you have any suggestions on how to set up the farm...I would like to spend as little as possible so I was thinking about getting a workbench set up with like 10 am3 mobo's then 10 sempron processors and the only thing I really want to spend money on is the PSU's so i'm using as little energy as possible and graphics cards was thinking i'm gonna go with 5850's have you heard of set ups like i'm describing doing pretty well from the graphics card guides i figured running 10 of these pc's all on box fan cooling(I also live in the high desert so its cold and dry coolign shouldn't be any issues especially with running only one GPU per system to start) I thought I would be getting a little over 5 MH/s??? any suggestions or ideas are appreciated like i said i am not going to pretend to know what i'm doing I can build a bad a$$ gaming pc built this mining thing is a whole different ballgame! I am also curious about those FPGA boards but I don't really understand anything about them and I have asking questions that I can look up the answers to myself but I just havne't gotten around to looking into what these boards are and what they do because I am busy busy busy!

I started the same way throwing AMD cards in my rigs that I used for gaming. I currently have 8 Machines running 23 AMD GPUS Most of them HD5770. (Cause they were cheap) I however am one of the lucky ones I do not pay for power where I am at it is included so I do not worry about MH/Watt so I can not give you the best advice there. (all my cards are overclocked and drawing tons of power) But I will tell you the HD7970's are outstanding mine draw 142 Amps to 155amps at 1144MHz GPU Clock 700MHash/s each. Thats just crazy! Can't wait till the HD7990's come out. As for FPGA's I have no experience. Also all mine are in cases with about 8-10 fans per case. Keep my AC set to 70F and they all run cool. Let me know if you need more help.