Why does my macbook pro displays random garbled blocks?

Occasionally my macbook pro (15-inch, Early 2011 with mountain lion 10.8.2) displays random garbled blocks. This happens on external Apple displays and the laptop display. See photo.

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Solution 1:

We had a lot of these problems in our store and in the most cases the graphic card was broken. You should run the Apple Hardware Test / Apple Diagnostics and look at the results.