Screen Tearing/Screen Repeating Itself

Hello,
A couple days ago my screen started to really show some weird things, my screen would begin to tear/pixelate and show weird stuff, this happened more often when i scrolled the page, and it happens extremely often when there is a big program running in the background like Ableton (Music production) or Adobe Photoshop. Here are some screenshots to show you what i mean:
Screen 1: http://oi46.tinypic.com/10ckhmh.jpg
Screen 2: http://oi48.tinypic.com/15bw3k.jpg
Note: This was not a browser issue, this happened all over my screen no matter what application i had open at the time.
I have been looking for a solution for over a week now and i think i have basically read every topic i could find about this, however no luck yet.
So if anyone here knows how to deal with this, please let me know as it is really annoying and frustrating to deal with
Thanks in advance !

Aldaqt wrote:
@ Mike Sombrio
I have done the resets you told me but it doesn't fix my problem
@rkaufmann87
I had already done a couple of Hardware tests and they showed no problems whatsoever
Did you run Apple Hardware Test in Extended Mode???????? 3x back to back?????? If you only ran AHT in it's basic state that is at best not thorough enough. Unfortunately AHT isn't the most accurate testing tool but it does come with OS X.

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