Sometimes a ton of visual corruption comes up

Sometimes when I'm on a webpage corruption takes over the webpage, and when the webpage is moved visual corruption affects the rest of the desktop and any open programs or windows. Closing the web browser does not resolve the problem. Restarting the computer does, with no obvious after effects. This has happened 3 times. Twice on memebase and once while on flight rising. I got Bitdefender a while recently, but it hasn't found any malware so far.
First screenshot (Most of the screen) http://i.imgur.com/Gr6k4Xm.png (The bottom left and a small part to the right are uncorrupted, that's my background)
Second Screenshot (just a portion of the screen) http://i.imgur.com/iJ39j59.png
Safari version 7.1
Mac OSX 10.9.5
What's happening? Should I be concerned?

tpeasetiger:
Control-click on one of the thumbnails in iPhoto and in the Contextual menu select "Show File". You'll be taken to the folder what contains the file via the Finder. That will locate your iPhoto Library folder.
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I've tried reconnecting the power connector to my video card (Radeon 9800 Pro Mac), tried taking the card itself out and putting it back in, Reinstalling the driver for the card, and making sure my RAM was securely in (it wasn't, which was why it was running so slow, but it didn't fix the static). What the ** could this be? Is it the DVD drive, somehow killing the video? Is it the Monitor, or the Cable? I have to run the monitor though a DVI-ADC Adaptor, could that be the big problem? How about the card? How the ** would I KNOW?
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