GPU artifacts is it my gpu or something else????????????? please help!

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Ok, so almost every time in gta v when I take off from the runway and enter the city I get this weird artifact/colored flash on the screen. I don't remember it happening with my gtx 960(I recently upgraded to a 970) but maybe its because my monitor is having a hard time with my maxed graphic settings??? It only happens when I fly a plane out of the airport into the city from this 1 angle, it does it at stock clocks and when I overclock. It never happens anywhere else and I got no artifacts at all in the in game benchmark, no artifacts whatsoever unless I take a plane into the city from a certain angle. Yesterday I "fixed it" by unplugging and repluging my hdmi cord, it didn't happen after that last night but its happening again tonight... Is it my new 970??? when I overclocked it a lot I got the same flashes but I found an oc that worked and it never does this in any other place in the game. These artifacts in this 1 spot and also happen at STOCK CLOCKS. I also consistently get only one flash when it hapnes, I ussuly get one 1. just 1(I get 2-3 sometimes) weird colored flash on my screen. It happens more often at night in gta but ive had in happen in the daytime... Is it my gpu????? I just bought a 970 and it only happens in 1 place in the entire game when I fly an airplane. Is it my gpu??? my monitor? my hdmi cord??????? please help this is buging me a lot and I'm worried my new gpu is dying!!!!!!! Is it because I run the game maxed out with my new gpu??? I took a vid of it, it usually happens closer to the city but here's what I got https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwvfFaPnGeo-VG91aUxhQmhFdVE/view?usp=sharing its really weird, it happens 9 to 10 seconds into the vid...
 

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ive hardly played anything else since i got my gtx 970, I'm a gta fanatic, ill test something hard to run right now to see if i get the same thing. also i found this http://gtaforums.com/topic/789878-red-flash-graphical-bug/
 

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Well I tested my system on shadow of morador, I had a small oc and tested 2 different settings, 1st ultra 1080 second ultra 150 percent res ultra(it does this thing were it makes your res higher than your monitor idk) I played the game for about an hour using both settings, ran the benchmarks at both settings and murdered my gpu, its temps got up to 83 degrees Celsius and my core clock got up to 100 percent usage and not a single artifact, i guess I'm fine and i was all worried about nothing.
 

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at this point I doubt its my pc because I killed my gpu with almost 100 to 100 percent usage for about an hour on shadow of morador and ran the in game bench marks and didn't get any artifacts.