Are the New 17-Inch MacBook Pros Plagued by Faulty Graphics Cards?

This isall too intimate . The Apple support forums arelit up by complaintsthat thenew 17 - inch MacBook Prosare plagued by faulty Nvidia GeForce 9600 graphics cards .

https://gizmodo.com/do-the-new-macbook-pros-have-faulty-nvidia-graphics-car-5107277

Complaints run something like this : When the more powerful Geforce 9600 M is flip on , the display is ravaged by green lines and other outlandishness , which gets bad as the card appear to heat up . Switching to the integrated 9400 M heal the problem , as does restarting ( at least temporarily ) . Another user notes that the problems flame up up doing gaming , but calms down when they ’re “ doing low - performance stuff ” which also seems to direct to a heat issue .

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This is actually the third streak of MacBook Pros to be allegedly affected by faulty Nvidia graphics cards with heating problems : The previous contemporaries was tamp down with Nvidia card thatApple determinedwere distress from its notorious stuff defect that caused cards tofail at a “ higher - than - normal ” rates . The current genesis of 15 - inch MacBook Pros also had video problems ( the minatory “ pitch-dark screen of death ” ) whichApple also acknowledged , though no definitive blame was ever placed on faulty cards . ( Although the Inquirer will readily secern you the card arein fact , faulty . )

https://gizmodo.com/apple-confirms-failing-nvidia-graphics-cards-in-macbook-5061605

Are these artwork card , in fact , bad ? It ’s too shortly to tell — and very possible we ’re just find out from a lilliputian , bantam but vocal nonage that ’s been afflict — specially without definitive news from Apple . I ’d say , as I did before , that given the not - so - upstage past , it does n’t look very good for Nvidia , whatever the actual event may be . [ AppleviaEngadget ]

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