MBP screen graphics failure

I am experiencing intrmittent screen failure on my 3 1/2 yr old MBP (1440 x 900)
I close a window and the area behind it is 'noise, garbage
The red, yellow and green buttons at the top leftsuddenly are colourless noise in a rctanglular shpe
Windows sometimes have a 1.2 in of noise surrounding them that moves with the window
The menu bar will sometimes be B&W noise, wither the top half or all of it.
Refreshing windows often returns all of these issues back to normal.
At the moment all is fine ... started about a month ago
may have happened after Mavericks install, didn't notice though but nothing else has changed.
MBP Mid 2010, 8 GB memory (2 - 204-pin PC3-8500 (1066 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M and Intel HD Graphics
Is the graphics card failing or more likely memory failing or ???
Cheers,
Dave

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