Flickering/Artifacts in some games.

Hi

I got an annoying issue with my new Asus HD7850 Card. In some games the card seem to artefact. It looks like a black shadow is flickering for a split second and that's it, everything is fine again.
I can play for hours without any issues and the games won't crash or freeze. It's just a pretty rare artifact showing up like every once in a while.

The strange thing is that not every game has this issue. For example BF3 and Sleeping Dogs do not have any issues for me. But for example Starcraft 2 does "flicker" every once in a while (like every 20 hours of playtime O_o). Dishnored also shows strange flickering from time to time.
I already RMA'd the card TWICE (glad that my shop is so nice) but im having the same issue on the 3rd card as well. Back to my old 460 - no issues. Testing 660 of my Friend - no issues. I really don't know what to do. I even replaced my RAM and PSU but the issue still happens sometimes. I can't really reproduce it, it just happens totaly random in a few games. I tested different drivers and it seems like it appears more and less with some drivers but whenever i think it is fixed i see it again.

By searching the web i found more people who seem to have simelar issues http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=368290&page=3 the videos shown in their thread are more extreme but comparable to what i see every now and then..

Any idea what i can do about this issue?


Specs
Asrock z68 Pro3 (Bios up to date)
8GB Kingston ddr 3 1333
Win7 x64
Cougar A560 PSU
Edited by Stuttergame - 11/6/12 at 8:15am

Sorry, forgot to mention it Temperature was of course the first thing was looking at. But i think 63°C (145.4°F) max at BF3 are fine. As i said it is not every game. I think it could be an driver issue. It appears rarly but still it is pretty damn annoying if it does, it just doesn't "feel riight". I guess some people might be able to ignore it because it only appears for a splitsecond. But i feel annoyed by that issue. I already reported the issue to the AMD Support. After testing 3 (HD7850) cards on mine and my friends computer it might be related to the driver. But AMD never answered or seem to care about my reports.

Everything would be better if i would know that some people are on it. But i feel left alone with this issue for months now and don't know how to fix it. The only thing i can think of is selling the card and get a 660 instead but this will mean a financial loss for me + the 660 is more expansive than the HD 7850 was when i bought it and im not happy with that either.
Edited by Stuttergame - 11/6/12 at 8:19am

strange. That AMD Guy in the forum said it's a DX9 issue. I didn't see the issue in any DX11 game yet (Max Payne 3, Sleeping Dogs, BF3). Hope they gonna fix it soon.