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Artifacts typically show up when geometry stops displaying correctly, inconsistently, etc.
Textures are also affected. They'll do a number of odd things like displaying the wrong color, flickering, or even not showing up at all.
Basically, if something looks wrong and its because of a hardware issue (ie, overclocking) you've got artifacts.
edit: can also be cause be corrupt, bad, or incompatible drivers.
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