Wierd graphics glitch in my games

[FLanighan]

I get this very bizarre glitch in the visuals when playing my games. For some reason it happens more often when I disable vertical-sync. My specs are: intel core 2 quad Q9400, 2GB DDR2-800 ram g.skill, gigabyte p43-ud3l motherboard, and xfx 8800GT alpha dog edition video card.

Here is a screenshot of the glitch when playing WoW:

http://img210.imageshack.us/f/wtf1u.jpg/

http://img217.imageshack.us/i/wowwierd2.jpg/

and here is a really really weird one:

http://img687.imageshack.us/i/wtf2d.jpg/

What is causing all these glitches? I am thinking my graphics card but im also thinking maybe my ram. I've seen artifacting before that was caused by the gpu but nothing like this.

 

[Timop]

Seems like your cards on its way out (Bad V-Ram)
Is the card overclocked?

 

[Helltech]

That picture in Goldshire acutally looks really cool.

You're right that doesn't look like normal artifacting, but I have to ask have you stress tested your GPU? You can run Furmark with GPU-z in the background and see what kind of tempuratures you get.

Also does it only happen in Wow? Or other games as well?

 

[Hristo Spasov]

I have similar problems with all 3d games and stuff