07-28-2015, 08:19 PM
I purchased a reference design GTX 970 card last night from best buy. First time using Nvidia products and confused how I can control fan speed and overclocking on Ubunut 14.04.
My understanding is there are two methods 1) install windows and flash the bios or 2) modify xorg.conf ? Are there no easier options to adjust fan speed and clock, like AMD's "aticonfig" tool?
If I'm limited to using those two methods are there anything "gotchas" I should look out for? Last thing I need is to brick a brand new card by flashing the bios incorrectly.
With that said. While testing last night GPU temp was around 80c @ 50% fan speed during a bruteforce of dummy MD5 hash. However hashcat's speed kept going up and down which made me think the card is throttling? Personally I like the temp to be lower, especially once I get more of these cards.
My understanding is there are two methods 1) install windows and flash the bios or 2) modify xorg.conf ? Are there no easier options to adjust fan speed and clock, like AMD's "aticonfig" tool?
If I'm limited to using those two methods are there anything "gotchas" I should look out for? Last thing I need is to brick a brand new card by flashing the bios incorrectly.
With that said. While testing last night GPU temp was around 80c @ 50% fan speed during a bruteforce of dummy MD5 hash. However hashcat's speed kept going up and down which made me think the card is throttling? Personally I like the temp to be lower, especially once I get more of these cards.