ya it's possible he could make more day trading with less risk with 4 grand i know that is what i had done last few months.
rather than buying a bunch of overpriced gpu's i just flipped mostly BTC for profit and did ok over all..

i bought 1 7950 in late OCT 2013 and they were at Newegg Canada for $199 can brand new a few weeks later on ebay my card was min $475
all the little dicks that came rushing in OCT drove the price up across the world to double or more and there is no god damn way in hell i am paying double for my 2nd 7950.
i only wish i bought more at 199 lol ..instead i bought a PC for about 4 grand including a 140khz BenQ gaming monitor and a Harmon / Kardon amp for my PC.
i was thinking it would be good for gaming and got free codes for games with the gpu i never used and i bought CS GO and never ran it one time
and i never loaded any of my older games even once on my new machine since October.. so what happened is i spent 4k on a fancy web browser machine HAHAHHA
and i already had two machines running too lol .. a C2D and an Athlon
I used to work on CS:GO cracks and have played it with an emu a bit offline before i bought it and have not loaded my CSS either in a year or two at least
but i plan on firing up GTA 4 soon on the new machine.. even though i had played it to death before
and i had GTA 5 for PC in the back of my mind all along while shopping for my pc parts i wanted.

i say all that because i would be pissed off at myself had i bought asics that were obsolete in a couple months.. i'd have to suggest getting GPU's if at all.
but consider what 6 290's cost i am not sure that is too wise.. it may take you forever to make your money back.. i woudln't buy them but i sure as hell wouldn't buy asics.
the pattern since December is down down doooooooown in everything all over.. the more time goes by the less i make mining and it's getting bad and going to get worse i think.

maybe see if you can get used GPU's for a good price and by that i mean half of retail roughly maybe.. ebay dicks say they are new a lot but they use them for a couple months first lol

anyway i am not sure i would advise mining at all.. it may be hard to get your money back and more and more people are prob looking to get out too
it's a perfect shit storm brewing..

When KnC Miner ships their 250Mh units most sCrypt coins will be unminable with GPU. The competition will be too big. So then all us guys with GPUs will switch to X11 or other algo coins.

Keep your GPUs and mine some coins. I recommend Darkcoin, I see it going to .01 soon, maybe more.

Personally I would sell everything and use the proceeds to buy the Gridseed ASIC Scrypt miners instead.

That's just my personal opinion.

I think with this amount of money you can have a good one. That´s something, respect.

it is a hot card, better go with 280x or used 7950, 7970

I found this article very useful when considering what hardware I needed:

http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-hardware/

Cfx.

No, I dont think so, you can check on any profit calculator out there, just google it.

A R9 Generation Card would be fine for 400 $.
Get a mainboard with pciE or check if yours has it already.
Then a psu with at least 400 w. That would be it for 400 bucks.

Hey there...

Anybody able to provide a good shop for USB Miners?!
I've got scammed and am looking for a trusthworthy site...

NoTele

Not really, You don't need any expensive stuff other than GPU - which I think You should invest most.
And maybe PSU. Yes, definitelly PSU. You dont want to burn all that precious thingies You got there! ^^

Block erupters can be the size of an usb stick. You can buy them on ebay for example, just look it up on google.
Think they are about 20 - 30 USD. I dont think they are profitable anymore.
Better buy a graphic card and mine scrypt based currencies.

hey,

I believe block erupters are also asic chips which only works for BTC and other asic coins but not scrypt coins like LTC.