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Ok, so I asked this awhile back when I was running Snow Leopard (10.6.x) on this late 2009 27" iMac. Someone mentioned that I should disable Open GL drawing to resolve it, and it worked, for awhile except for many of the features in CS5 you need Open GL enabled. If no one else is having this problem on the same OS then I am going to take this computer back to Apple and have it fixed/replaced. Maybe it's the graphics card, I don't know. But here is what my PS documents look like about 75% of the time. Sometimes it is worse than this and it makes working very, very hard:
The very strange white pixelation that appears is also appearing on the panels now as well (look at the layers panel in the above image). It is becoming very frustrating. I updated to 10.7.3 to hopefully 'fix' the problem, but no cigar. I don't know if this is an Adobe problem or an Apple problem. I notice it appears on applications like Safari when a webpage with Flash is running as well. I know Adobe and Apple don't get along but this is becoming a regularity for my Photoshop experience. It's also starting to affect many other applications on my computer. It happens almost every time I run Photoshop, and it affects other applications that I run if Photoshop is running simultaneously. If I quit Photoshop it clears up this issue in many other applications. Any ideas? Is anyone else running these system specs having this problem? If so, have you done anything to fix it? I am considering sending this iMac back to Apple and having the graphics card looked at.
My intuition says there is either a clash between Adobe programs and OSX and that is the source of the problem, or I have a bad graphics card, but I have no proof of that. It happens on websites with Flash and it happens directly in Photoshop. It doesn't happen in Illustrator, InDesign, or Dreamweaver though. I am totally at a loss for what is causing this.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill

That's a pretty classic example of a bad GPU or bad VRAM.
Yes, your video card is bad and needs to be replaced.

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