>>55349531
Your GPU is dying.

>>55349531
artifacts,
Screen tearing is something completely different.

Go cook your graphics card in a oven.

Those look pretty rad, like a cool burning effect on ur screen

>>55349559
Could be his monitor or cable dieing too.
Does it do the same thing on a different screen?

>>55349554
>>55349559
>>55349560
;_;

>>55349595
Haven't tested on another screen, but changing the monitor's refresh rate to a lower setting makes these go away. I just wanted to know what they were called because 'artifacts' have been described as random colored blotches of big squares, small pixel anomolies, dead pixels, screen-tearing, etc. People seem to use 'artifacts' to describe many different things. Wanted to narrow it down to a single word/description.

That is some weird shit, haven't seen that before.

If its happening on a static screen and they move around I would guess its your LCD, but you should plug it into another machine and try another cable to rule that out.

>>55349531
I had that on an old Compaq from the late '90s. Turned out to be a dying graphics card, like the other guys said.

Your GPU is suffering pain. Man up and shoot it.

Happened on my old Acer aspire 3000 laptop, it would be fine for hours but the moment the chipset has to change power states those lines appear and don't go away until after a reboot.

Upon inspection there is appears to be considerable motherboard warping around the chipset and CPU socket.