Is it my display or graphic card in apple macbook 2008

Half my screen is fine. The other half is flickering. If there is a picture on the screen, part is fine, the other part seems to be missing pixels. I think it may be the graphic card because the screen looks fine 5% of the time.

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The Intel HD 3000 is a integrated graphics, meaning the CPU does the graphics and isn't all that great because GPU's are more powerful than CPU's apparently.
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http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
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(2.3Ghz is fine too, not all that much faster really)
This Radeon 6750M is THREE times faster than the pitiful Intel HD 3000.
The object being is you buy as much video card performance up front as you can, and play all the latest games at over 50 fps on max settings!
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See here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20289931
See here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4391012
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Bus: Built-In
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Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x27a2
Revision ID: 0x0003
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Online: Yes
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