Mining gtx 970 slow MH/s

[Unknown-bjorn]

Hi all.
I have currently taken a interest into mining as cryptos seem to draw quite a bit of attention these days and I have the advantage of no electricity costs (Solar powered house). I have used my current setup with an EVGA GTX 970 FTW Edition merely as a tester and to learn how mining works. I mined Ethereum using Ethminer Geniols 1.1.7 and have even set my GPU to Power State 0 and gave a small GPU overclock of 160MH/z (Going higher is fruitless) and I only achieve a main 13.6MH/s and 15.9MH/s (MegaHash/second) about 30% of the time Id guess. Has anyone else got this issue? Has anyone gotten passed this issue?

This is merely a research question as Im looking to explore all possibilities. Suggestions and such for better graphics cards for if/when I build are also appreciated.

Thanks to those who answer.

 

[AnonymousAndy]

Your hash rate isn't exactly good, but its not uncommon either.
As an alternative;
Ignore eth completely with that GPU, you'll make much more mining equihash coins such as zcash. Even if you somehow overclocked the 970 far enough to reach 20 MHs on eth, you'd make $31 a month in eth. 970 can easily reach 300 sols mining zec, so you'd make $45 a month in zec.
EWBF is the miner you'd want as you have a 970.