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frozenlead

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Dec 8, 2008
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I'm sure most of you have heard of the bad G84 and G86 chips from nvidia (though I've never actually heard of one dying on anyone, even in the profile of the macbooks)

It seems, according to this fairly impressive diagnostic that the 9600 series cards suffer from the same high-lead solder as did the 8400 and 8600 series units. They actually hacked up a new 15" macbook in this test.

Read on:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/09/apple-macbook-pros-nvidia-bad

I know it's the inquirer, but it's really quite in-depth.
 
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