2d Screen Flickering - MSI R9 280X TwinFrozr OC 3GB (R9 280X GAMING 3G)

Hello,
OS: Win 8.1 - 64bit
GFX: MSI R9 280X TwinFrozr OC 3GB (R9 280X GAMING 3G)
GPU-Z:
2d flickering, it seems, when it downclocks to 300Mhz, the screen starts flickering, and can't run games in 2d mode without flickering. The GFX is perfectly fine playing games in full screen.
Any ideas, folks?
I'm sure that changing the clock to 450Mhz default would fix this, or perhaps 500Mhz, but I don't know how I should do that, and maybe there is another fix for this.
Bios Attached as well: mega.co.nz/#!bt5XiSAa!6d07jJRFNM4lT3zWDAmyGnqTo-V4zsqZe4FW5LZEdz0
Thanks!

I know this has been longer than 60 days. However I just wanted to post my fix for others in case its searched for. This has been so frustrating to figure out. My fix has been a variety of things such as clean installs of the drivers MANY MANY times. The final time I reinstalled the ATI's CCC driver 14.7 beta. I noticed that I unknowingly (by ignorance not action) installed MSI's version of CCC from there website as well. After (not) installing MSI's version on top it seemed to help but the clock speeds still fluctuated from 300MHZ- to the max 1020MHz continuously. After looking in the CCC I saw an option that caught my eye. "Alternate DVI Operational Mode" is checked by default on both screens options. So I unchecked it...applied changes.... VIOLA no more flicker and clock speeds have been stable for the past 5 hours. I however have not restarted my computer for fear it will return and I throw the computer out the window. This is atleast worth an attempt if you have the dreaded "Flicker" of the R9 280X.
For information my setup is as follows:
M/B- MSI A88X-G45 Gaming
processor: AMD A10-7850K (AMD A series black edition APU) w/ r7 200 series
2 (cheap @ around 120$ each) Monitors- Acer (G246HL) and LG (22M45) 60Hz running at 1920x 1080
PSU: (Cheap 35$) 600W
HDD: 1TB (Master) and 2TB (slave) seagate  SATA drives
VIDEO: MSI R9 280x 3gb Video card
Issue noticed: Flicker when running either one or two (Extended screen) monitors usually while browsing, schoolwork, or watching netflix (2D actions???) and less but still during StarCraft 2 game play. tried just about every forums suggestions except the one about changing a register key profile.
Outcome of above suggestions: Relief....so far (6 hours later)

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