Just thought Id share my rigs, current mining about 7-8 LTC (litecoin) a day from these. I also mine with my desktop. These are all Radeon HD 5850's running 350+ k/hs each stable. Enjoy!
I'm only running celeron's with 2 gigs of ram each, nothing special. I found the ATI card's OEM NEW from gateway on ebay for cheap. Just gotta shop around.
well i got two 5770`s setting around. i all ready run my work/gaming system 24/7 so the electric is no worry. some how we are ahead any way. how many full systems do you rec. to start off with? and if im bother you just say so. this is the first i have heard of this and started to look into it. fingered a hobbie. i race, and race r/c so cash is tight but i am use to dropping 2k on them. just no cash right now, lol
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison You should be able to get a 200 mh/kh per sec on each of those 500+ if oc'ed well enough. I max my system out before moving to another build, as you can see I do 5x cards per machine which is maxing my PSU power and mobo limits. The machines lag a tad but not bad. x2 5770's should be fine for a single rig with growing room. My host machines run about 250$ usd per box for hardware. (ones in pictures)
Why arent you using the a little mining stick instead of grafikcards... the sticks doent need that much power and they can do up to 2,3ghs each!
Cool mining rigs! You definitely enjoyed setting them. Great investment indeed and I envy you having those heavy miners. How I wish it is just easy to acquire those miners.