Screen Tear on HDTV

Hey guys.

I have one monitor hooked up through DVI - no issues at all.

My other monitor is a Vizio LED HDTV that I game on and I have that set up via HDMI. I also have that as my main monitor so that Steam runs in big picture mode as well as Uplay.

So when I'm gaming, and only when I'm gaming, every 10 minutes maybe I get a quick flash of black and a sort of screen tear situation mainly at the top of the screen, like the top half tears black while the bottom half doesn't. Real quick, like a half second.

I have been streaming and using OBS when noticing this and the tear doesn't appear in my stream or n my preview in OBS, only on the HDTV.

It has happened when playing games with V sync both on and off.

Any thoughts on this?

I have the HDMI running from the Vanquish II Level 3 (GTX 760) through a Yamaha receiver and then to my TV. No issues with Xbox One or PS4 running the same way and my Nvidia drivers are up to date.

Has happened while playing Far Cry 4 in 720p as well as Skyrim in 1080p.

I haven't tried swapping the HDMI cable yet, I'll give that a shot on New Years day, just didn't know if you more experienced PC gamers have encountered this before.

Thanks!