Hi all,
Does anyone know how to get the highest hashing speed out of a GTX 970?
I have an ASUS Strix 970 and it wont do more than ~17MH/s
I keep seeing people claim this card can do ~22MH/s.
I tried this
sudo nvidia-smi -ac 3505,1202
this puts memory clock to max, and core to 1202, which should be sufficient for Eth.
Upping core freq does nothing.
Output from nvidia-smi -q:
==============NVSMI LOG==============
Timestamp : Mon Mar 7 18:39:08 2016
Driver Version : 352.79
Attached GPUs : 1
GPU 0000:01:00.0
Product Name : GeForce GTX 970
Product Brand : GeForce
Display Mode : Enabled
Display Active : Enabled
Persistence Mode : Disabled
Accounting Mode : Disabled
Accounting Mode Buffer Size : 1920
Driver Model
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
Serial Number : N/A
GPU UUID : GPU-4189f772-a656-8a5b-3aa4-00d7d0ece521
Minor Number : 0
VBIOS Version : 84.04.1F.00.2A
MultiGPU Board : No
Board ID : 0x100
Inforom Version
Image Version : G001.0000.00.01
OEM Object : N/A
ECC Object : N/A
Power Management Object : N/A
GPU Operation Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
PCI
Bus : 0x01
Device : 0x00
Domain : 0x0000
Device Id : 0x13C210DE
Bus Id : 0000:01:00.0
Sub System Id : 0x85091043
GPU Link Info
PCIe Generation
Max : 3
Current : 3
Link Width
Max : 16x
Current : 16x
Bridge Chip
Type : N/A
Firmware : N/A
Replays since reset : 0
Tx Throughput : 5000 KB/s
Rx Throughput : 5000 KB/s
Fan Speed : 41 %
Performance State : P0
Clocks Throttle Reasons
Idle : Not Active
Applications Clocks Setting : Active
SW Power Cap : Not Active
HW Slowdown : Not Active
Unknown : Not Active
FB Memory Usage
Total : 4095 MiB
Used : 1473 MiB
Free : 2622 MiB
BAR1 Memory Usage
Total : 256 MiB
Used : 6 MiB
Free : 250 MiB
Compute Mode : Default
Utilization
Gpu : 99 %
Memory : 95 %
Encoder : 0 %
Decoder : 0 %
Ecc Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
ECC Errors
Volatile
Single Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Total : N/A
Double Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Total : N/A
Aggregate
Single Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Total : N/A
Double Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Total : N/A
Retired Pages
Single Bit ECC : N/A
Double Bit ECC : N/A
Pending : N/A
Temperature
GPU Current Temp : 67 C
GPU Shutdown Temp : 96 C
GPU Slowdown Temp : 91 C
Power Readings
Power Management : Supported
Power Draw : 136.23 W
Power Limit : 163.46 W
Default Power Limit : 163.46 W
Enforced Power Limit : 163.46 W
Min Power Limit : 100.00 W
Max Power Limit : 196.15 W
Clocks
Graphics : 1202 MHz
SM : 1202 MHz
Memory : 3505 MHz
Applications Clocks
Graphics : 1202 MHz
Memory : 3505 MHz
Default Applications Clocks
Graphics : 1050 MHz
Memory : 3505 MHz
Max Clocks
Graphics : 1392 MHz
SM : 1392 MHz
Memory : 3505 MHz
Clock Policy
Auto Boost : N/A
Auto Boost Default : N/A
Processes
Process ID : 1208
Type : G
Name : /usr/bin/X
Used GPU Memory : 66 MiB
Process ID : 2247
Type : C
Name : /home/bobben/qtminer/./qtminer
Used GPU Memory : 1385 MiB
Process ID : 4566
Type : G
Name : nvidia-settings
Used GPU Memory : 3 MiB
Any help on this is much appreciated.
Had to be the best investment i made so far in crypto But i havent sold so i guess unless i was to do that then i cant say definitively but i feel we have much more upside to go.. I was nervous it was going up way to fast.. needed to consolidate for a bit.. then the next push can start... 
