I know this has been a while but I wanted to update this.
XFX finally got my video card and declared it to be defective. They shipped me a replacement card. It's running great.......so far.
I turned on the fan control to 40% to cool it down and now I'm getting random lines partly across my screen.... :(
The good news was at idle before I did, it was at 76*C and now it's down to 47*C at idle, but now I have the damn lines.
System Specs as follows:
Intel Q6700 processor
Masscool 8WA741 92mm Ball CPU Cooler
Asus Maximus Extreme Motherboard (Stock Settings)
8 GB OCZ Gold PC3 14400 RAM
Antec Twelve Hundred Case
Antec Earthwatts 650W PS
(3) Hard Drives (SATA)
(1) IDE DVDRW
(1) SATA DVDRW
And the bugger is...