R7970 GPU Usage Spiking Issue

I'm having an issue with my 7970 and the GPU usage spiking while im at my desktop. I just rebooted and I know I have nothing running and yet I have this usage spike to about 57% and then it seems to mess up my mouse whenever it happens.
If I'm dragging my lmb and then a spike happens my mouse stops the drag and then starts a new one after the spike. It's a pretty consistant event and I'm not sure why it's happening and I can't find any processes that would cause usage like this.
Any suggestions?
edit; running latest beta catalyst drivers and this was occuring before I updated to the beta drivers. Windows 7 x64 pro

board; msi z77 mpower
vga; msi r7970 2pmg3gd5
psu; corsair m620w
cpu; intel i7 3770k @ 4.7ghz
mem 8gb ddr3 1866 patriot
hdd; intel 250gb ssd
cooler - cpu; nhd14 noctua
cooler - vga; arctic accelero extreme 7970
os windows 7 pro x64

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