MSI R9 280X - Severe artifacts

Hello,
I bought a R9 280X 3G BF4 some time back and I had some artifacts in crysis 3 so I dismissed it as a game specific issue.
But, recently I got LOTR: Shadow of Mordor and the game displays some very serious artifacts making the game unplayable. The game works perfectly on my other PCs, so I used graphs from MSI AfterBurner & GPU-Z for troubleshooting and found out that the artifacts appear only when the VRAM usage crosses about 2GB.
Its getting very frustrating as I am unable to use the full 3GB VRAM and even lower-end cards can run games better. Please help me in getting this issue resolved.
note: I tried running the GPU in a different PC & I got the same issues.
System Specs:
Main Board: Asus Z77-m pro
Bios Version: 015.042.000.003.000000(113-C3865000-X77)
Video Card: MSI R9 280X 3G BF4
PSU: Seasonic M12II 750W Bronze
12v rail Rating of listed PSU: 62A
CPU: Intel I5 3570K
Memory: 4GB Corsair vengeance 1600MHZ DDR3
SSD/ HDD: Seagate barracuda 1TB 7200rpm
CPU COOLER: Stock Intel cooler
Sound Card: none
Any Additional hardware plugged into your system: No
OC: No
Operating System: Windows 8.1 pro 64bit
Driver: 14.11.2 beta and 14.9 whql

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S/N: 602-V277-44SB1312121379
GPU Core temprature is in the 80C range.
I have uploaded the bios here.
sendspace.com/file/seizhg
oki, the vbios is correct one , no crossflash issues
and its also latest version
load temp also looks fine
have you tested the card in another computer?
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msi.com/product/vga/R9-280X-GAMING-3G-BF4.html#hero-overview
Driver: 14.11.2 beta and 14.9 whql
have you tried the one from msi web for your card?:
http://www.msi.com/support/vga/R9-280X-GAMING-3G-BF4.html#down-driver&Win8.1 64

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