So I downclocked my card 100mhz using afterburner and it was registering 1312Mhz. I didn't want to go lower, because I wanted to test the same settings and honestly this card should run well above that. I subjected it to the same conditions as before and it still happened. Its not predictable and doesnt always happen in the same spots, but I am still getting it in high particle/high load conditions every few minutes. Sometimes its a very tiny speck, but the last run yielded faint quarter inch red ellipses almost across the entire screen. With the downclocked speed the card didnt go over 60C. The GPU load was 90-98% and power still never exceeded 80%.