When you can wait and get a scrypt specific asic that will hash 100 MHS for that money? Yep too expensive. And yes they are in development stage and are due the beginning of 2014.
BTW, R9 280X is basically a 7970 repackaged with some tweaks per AMD.
BTW, R9 280X is basically a 7970 repackaged with some tweaks per AMD.
Yeah, but here all 7950/7970 are sold out a long time. That's the reason to pick R9 280X or R9 290 (without X).
And don't expect working scrypt ASIC before June 2014.
BTW:
Actually you can still build gpu mining rigs, use them 4-5 months and resell the parts with minimal loss. So just lose 10-20% plus electric costs. Rest is profit.
