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    Your system effected by nVidias mess-up?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Arquis, Jul 18, 2008.

  1. Arquis

    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

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    Just thought I'd put a poll up to see just how many of us have suffered from GPU-related problems. I haven't seen any specific numbers, but I also have not seen many people complaining about busted MBPs on this board.

    This would at least give us a little insight on the failure rates of nVidia GPUs in MBPs, so please post how yours is doing.
     
    Arquis, Jul 18, 2008
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  2. Durious

    Durious Notebook Evangelist

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    I had the 128 Mb GeForce 8600 from August 07 till March 08 of this year and did not have any failures (Not sure if that care was included in your poll so if not deduct 1)
     
    Durious, Jul 18, 2008
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  3. Arquis

    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

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    I think it was the 8400s and 8600s that were effected, so yes your vote counts, thanks :)
     
    Arquis, Jul 18, 2008
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  4. jjahshik32

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    none so far on the mbp but its only been 2 months. But it runs cool around 49c-58c and the highest I've seen was 70c.
     
    jjahshik32, Jul 18, 2008
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  5. blazezaku

    blazezaku Notebook Guru

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    no failures here too
     
    blazezaku, Jul 19, 2008
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  6. Durious

    Durious Notebook Evangelist

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    Im going to guess that trolls selected yes just because when people have a complaint they actually post the reasonings when they vote seeing the # is only at 3. and if I call it out maybe one of them will post what happened if it did in fact :p
     
    Durious, Jul 19, 2008
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  7. diggy

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    No problems here
     
    diggy, Jul 19, 2008
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  8. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    No problems what so ever, 8600m GT 256mb DDR3.
     
    cdnalsi, Jul 19, 2008
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  9. stealthsniper96

    stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?

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    +1 for integrated gpu's
     
    stealthsniper96, Jul 19, 2008
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  10. Magimagus

    Magimagus Notebook Consultant

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    G84 A2 256 8600m GT here.

    No problems.
     
    Magimagus, Jul 20, 2008
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  11. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    So far so good .No prob here.My AS5920G have 8600M GT DDR2 card & MBP have 8600M GT DDR3 card. both are working well
     
    bigspin, Jul 20, 2008
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  12. sulkorp

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    As far as I know, the problem only occurs when you the gpu gets hot, for long amount of times.

    So if you game often, eventually it might die out. But for normal usage, specifically no or little gaming, the end user will probably never have a failure.

    But yea, mine died on me, got a logic board and im fine.
     
    sulkorp, Jul 20, 2008
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    free2spam.me Notebook Geek

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    free2spam.me, Jul 20, 2008
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    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    thanx for the pics
     
    bigspin, Jul 20, 2008
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  15. Arquis

    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

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    Had something similar to the first pic happen to me once.... I had just woken it from sleep and the screen was all red and black artifacts, lol.... but it never happened again, and I game for hours on end a lot...
     
    Arquis, Jul 20, 2008
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    I voted 'no'. I don't really use any graphics intensive applications on my MBP so I haven't scorched the GPU (the CPU though is another matter :p). I am concerned though about it's life-span though...
     
    dbam987, Jul 20, 2008
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    willard Notebook Consultant

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    Had mine for about 2 months now. and so far no problems, (that said it will fail for sure now) I tried a bootcamp with XPP and a few games, did not like it so removed it, but even then no issues.
    I have not run much for graphics other than some Movies and hulu.
     
    willard, Jul 21, 2008
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