From the sounds of it though the 7970 just isn't worth it at all here. I'll talk then to the store see if I can swap them out.
Probably not much more. You might as well run both if you are getting another.
Only have two PCIe slots and one is being used by my raid controller. Sadly I can't use both at at this point. That and the wife would kill me if I tried.
I personally wouldn't consider investing in anything else than an ASIC based miner...
Thinking about that also but I'm having a hard time thinking about doing that when I don't see them really shipping many of them at this point and I'm not sure when I will get one. Even more so being they have had delay after delay and I believe they originally planned to start shipping sometime last year. I'm afraid of spending the money for them to only go belly up. For price to performance it wins but also limits what I can do from there with the hardware if bitcoin goes south as well.