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Right, well I played around some more, my issue was voltage. I applied 1250mV and that seemed to remove that brick wall of mine sitting at 1040mhz core clock.
I almost got 1250mhz core 1600mhz mem working, it kept stable for several tests, but after a few it got to the stage where every test caused the drivers to crash and they continued to crash every time it had to render something other than the mouse, until I restarted.
After this I buttoned back to 1200mhz core, 1600mhz mem. So far everything is running stable with some very nice results, I am up 382 points in 3Dmark 11's extreme setting, from 2544 to 3162. My only issue is heat, idle around 30C, load reaches about 66C, this causes the fans to kick in to 51% and they enter the audible range. For such an overclock its not a bad trade off, but I may put it back further to 1100mhz core, see if I cant keep it a little quieter.