''i see everywhere of people getting 110+ mhz on gpu clock and 500 and a little more on the mem clock. my gpu seems to be stalemating me like its nobodies business''
 
1- luck of the draw and nature of your card
 
2 - really?  take what ''everyone '' says with a grain of salt  ya, may claim higher and brag but then is it all day under everything stable  or used bios mod , ect,,,, ?   or like a review site receives a cherry picked card for the reviews kinda thing .
 
3- may  try msi afterburner -  some get a better result  with it  . I got a better result with per-x  then after burner   then that's back to nature of YOUR card .
 
voltage may not be as a factor as  the 275w  power limit in the end  . its a 300w card with a 6 and 8 pin  - pci-e -75w  6 pin -75w  8 pin- 150 = 300w ]
 
from this your not even getting that 275w it should do  power input wise
Board power limit
  Target: 201.0 W
  Limit: 222.0 W
  Adj. Range: -50%, +10%
Thermal limits
  Rated: 79.5C
  Max: 91.0C
 
''this card comes with a base clock of 1,190MHz and a rated boost clock of 1,342MHz.''   that like 15% or so over reference  out of the box stock
 
''The boost clock was rated at 1,472MHz, and the card actually managed a little higher than this, hitting a constant 1,497MHz under load. We've seen other GTX 970s boost to over 1,500MHz a fair few times, but this is still an excellent result.''
 
from that review you in the ball park at 1472   - like I said there not sending the retail card randomly picked up from newegg  for a  sales hype promotion review 
 
 
 
''so i made a small upgrade from my gtx 760 EVGA to a 970 SSC EVGA ACX 2.0''
 
I got to assume your 970 was a used card you bought ?   if so may not look a gift horse in the mouth on the OC your getting  and you got a solid working card overall [??]
 
I don't like to give too much oc advice and you go burn your card up / damage something  over it an I feel guilty  some what ...
 
thing is you may get more out of it , but them is it  going  to be 24.7 under everything stable  ? see to me a lot of the bragging overclocks you see may not  and crashes under something they did not achieve that with
 
  thing is whats 1472 not running faster then stock boost ?  then is this a card you want to use long term and enjoy or a card that so what you smoke it trying  to push all you can from  it  and a  i'll just buy another easy to replace  ? its not like cards are cheap right now  if you oops it
 
 
ol' sajin pops in here to help  he's pretty sharp on these things  he may can offer you a golden answer
 
 
good luck 
 
 

 

+110 isn't the important part. What the card is actually running at when the offset is applied is what matters most. Just because you see other people getting +110 doesn't mean they are getting a higher frequency than you.

Your dual bios switch should be located right here...
 

 
Ram = Get G.skill or Corsair.
PSU = Get a Seasonic.

cocokid50036
ok thank you i appreciate it. i was looking at getting 4x8gb 2400mhz possibly of corsair vengeance pro without rgb
 
my gpu also only has 6+6 pin power connectors..

Your 970SSC is a bit different model than the two I have apparently.  I believe yours may have been the original model.  Here's the spec sheet on mine.  You'll notice 8 pin and 6 pin connectors and dual BIOS's mentioned in specs.

should not be the same part number then    the firsr aftermarket evga cards started with a 2   [ 04g-p4-''2''979-kb ]    1 = reference / blower  as the revisions come out the first number goes up to now a  [ ''3''979-kb ]  for a quick example  in the series  .
 
now there were what was called and sold as ''best buy '' cards    where that difference may be between yours and a ''true'' evga card  ?  best buy has removed all there spec pages  , but it was ''shorted'' like you say
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/evga-geforce-gtx-970-4gb-gddr5-pci-express-3-0-graphics-card-black/2496109.p?skuId=2496109
see here   
 
https://forums.evga.com/Just-bought-a-GTX-970-SSC-from-Best-Buy-and-I-have-a-couple-quesitons-m2295147.aspx
 
https://forums.evga.com/Beware-EVGA-board-partner-Best-Buy-m2412444.aspx
 
lot of guys seen this the hard way   and I guess that best buy card was not the best buy after all ?    I guess anymore any evga item can be a buyer beware  item these days 

Factory OC graphics cards are harder to OC manually.  Your system must be stable first.  This includes your AC power and the MB setup.  If you remove All OC from MB & RAM, run front side bus at stock speeds can the GPU clock higher ?  Temps also make a difference, colder is always better to get the most out of the GPU

cocokid50036
yeah ive read about those, but this card was purchased from newegg. unless theyre doing the same thing then idk. still wondering why it shows 0% useage on my gpu
 
thanks though :)

ya. I posted to a thread here on funny business on evga card from newegg   nnow I don't trust anything or what did I really buy at retail price .  thought I spent on new first quality   [ to what evga says there is no such thing as that ??]] wow....   its called a new card sold with out defect or needing to be recertified  or refurbished   as in a first quality card  .
 
evga said to a guy cards boxed as mine was were recertified cards .  and this was bought from newegg as new   , not new recertified   or refurbished .    then he said I got a new card ? then why is it in a claimed  recertfied box  pr a referb box  and not what you called a retail new box ???    come on,,,,
 
https://forums.evga.com/Is-this-new-or-refurbished-m2772921.aspx
 
sad thing is you see evga stick there foot in there mouth a lot here , tell one guy this and the next guy that and all  ..  I'm not the only one who noticed this trend 
 
''Hmm, which seems to be contradictory to advice given out on this very forum no more than 6 days ago?'' [puddles ]
https://forums.evga.com/New-980-ti-hybrid-radiator-fan-constantly-on-full-speed-m2453739.aspx
 
to be honest seems now a days evga is buyer beware   no matter where you buy from  .  all you hope for is it lasts in till you want to replace it  if your lucky .  as its said  '' you get what you pay for  [and sometimes less ] ''  

ya, my old 2- 8800's from evga were great  and life time warrantee
 
like the gtx 980 ti classy's  there wer like 5 or 6 of them ? why  heck one was just as good as a plain jane reference 980 ti at best .   like you said if your not careful and know what 980ti classy  was the one to get you could get hosed and end up with a 980 ti classy with no better then reference clocking  form a reference card  with a classy cooler and logo on it   .  [ there was a thread here over that ''good deal''  ]   a few guys got hosed on that one ..
 
you know the oldest card I got still running today as well as it did new is a MSI 6600  agp x8 card     on a  amd  socket a board   [also MSI ]  when all else fails around here or hits the trash can  it can fire it right up and go  just like the first day I built it .

sweet ....
 
 
I guess that was back when they used all jap components   instead of all china as cheap as they can now use to  get by with for 3 years worth of use at there highest retail pricing   .   now it don't seem many make it that long  and its  rma  time .lol...