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So are all MBP owners with the 8600m GT cards screwed?

Imagine my face when I go and check in the box of my MBP (I bought it in dicember of last year) and see NVIDA G8600 on it. So now I have to wait and see when this thing is gonna blow? :confused:


Also I checked the apple store website and they are still going with the NVIDIA chip , does anyone know why is that? Are they gonna change it for another one? and if so , for which one?:confused:
 
adlos said:
Imagine my face when I go and check in the box of my MBP (I bought it in dicember of last year) and see NVIDA G8600 on it. So now I have to wait and see when this thing is gonna blow? :confused:


Also I checked the apple store website and they are still going with the NVIDIA chip , does anyone know why is that? Are they gonna change it for another one? and if so , for which one?:confused:
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The only other option would be ATI (which, from a performance and power consumption standpoint may be a better option now). Also, Apple hasn't said that the GeForce 8600M GT's in the MacBook Pros are all defective. I have not had any hardware issues with my June 2007 model.
 
nuncupatory said:
As things are now, it seems like some people are told their logic board will be replaced for free, others have been charged $300-ish, while others are quoted $1000+.
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Anytime you are dealing with big corporations, it seems like who you talk to can have a huge impact on the end result. Some people don't care, and other people make a very genuine effort to give the best service. Some reps aren't that knowledgeable and don't care, others are intrigued and will ask questions for you and really try to solve the problem. Hopefully, Apple will step up with some sort of company policy with regard to this issue like they did back when the iBook G3's had failures and they extended the warranties on the logic boards.
 
I have had a MBP for about a month and no problems so far, although I haven't pushed it very much so far. I do have one stuck pixel...
 
Ive had my mac book pro now for a month, and had it spec'd to a 2.6ghz processor 4Gb mem and the 200 7200rpm hard drive use it for games of a evening and work during the day and its been great no issues, in fact i got rid of all my old windows pc's
 
let me tell u guys my story....lol

i got my MBP about the middle of august
and before september even started my Video Card failed
instead of getting full FPS im getting around half
for example i played wow getting around 160 fps steady
and now i only get 60-80

but thank God i got the 3 year extended warranty
 
Dannyd534 said:
let me tell u guys my story....lol

i got my MBP about the middle of august
and before september even started my Video Card failed
instead of getting full FPS im getting around half
for example i played wow getting around 160 fps steady
and now i only get 60-80

but thank God i got the 3 year extended warranty
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I really don't think that's what the defect is about. At all. But I could be wrong.
 
Dannyd534 said:
trust me...ud be ble to tell the differance from 70 FPS compared to 160+
it be wayyy less choppy
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Wrong.

Especially since the monitor doesn't refresh close to 160 frames a second.

It probably refreshes 60 times a second.

So you're actually limited quite physically to 60 fps either way.

You're either imagining things, or you're just confused, and were never getting 160 fps.

Even if you had an external monitor capable of 200 Hz, you still wouldn't notice the difference between 60fps and 160 fps, because the human eye simply doesn't discern between the two; perhaps your peripheral vision could, but not staring right at it. Next time do a bit more research.

And this has nothing to do with the GPU problem.
 
wel...for all of you bitching at me....
u guys may be right
but i will always be a gamer and will always be able to tell if something is choppy
 
Well mine is brand new, and I'm a heavy gamer. I'm going to be overseas for 6 months starting in January, I hope it doesn't break down over there because I don't want to go through the hassle of getting it fixed there. Besides that I got the three year Apple Care so if its faulty or not doesn't bug me, I keep backups and I have my desktop if all else fails. Still a nuisance though!:rolleyes:

Dannyd534 said:
wel...for all of you bitching at me....
u guys may be right
but i will always be a gamer and will always be able to tell if something is choppy
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There is no "may" about it, they are right. Doesn't matter if you're a gamer, it doesn't give you some kind of unique mutation that allows you to see more frames per second than others. Sorry to burst your bubble!
 
Dannyd534 said:
but i will always be a gamer and will always be able to tell if something is choppy
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So you're either not human, not getting the framerates you're claiming, or have prerelease bionic eyes.

All truth aside (wait, forget that...), reduced framerates isn't a symptom of the GPU defect that everyone's talking about. That one pertains to the chip itself warping and borking your entire logic board.
 
Dannyd534 said:
lmao im guessing u have never played a game before?
u can tell if something is choppy or not


and i have the 2nd option
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You're really disgracing yourself now. :rolleyes:

Yes, everybody can tell when something is choppy, however, what you're being told is that, if you truly are at 70 FPS, it will not look choppy.

If it is choppy, you are not getting the FPS you think you are!
 
Yes I am afraid that what program that trigger the crash is just random. I have done a lot of tests without been able to find any "bad programs" in my system. I'm normally very very careful when i comes what program I really need on my mac.

What we need is a program that enable us to reproduce the error every time, returning my MBP to Apple don't make any sense since I'm not able to reproduce the crash. I randomly get the hidd problem and my computer freeze. People that have artifact etc on the display may find i easier to reproduce this for Apple support. This problem have I only seen a few times.

Is the "hidd problem" and artifact on the display the same problem? Just at diffrent stages on the way to total FUBAR?

My plan is to continue to use my MBP until we see a official statement from nVidia and Apple (if that are ever going to such a day). Replacing the mail board with a new "defect GPU" is not very tempting. If not I'll wait until people start reporting that nVidia have sorted it out and are producing good batches of GPU.
 
MowingDevil said:
How can you tell how many FPS you're getting out of a game/GPU?
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Well, in WoW you can use Ctrl+R (If memory serves) and it shows your current FPS. Many games have similar hotkeys, and there are numerous third party programs that can show you too. I used to use FRAPS for recording things in games and it showed me my FPS whenever I wanted.

There are probably easier ways but thats what I know. :p
 
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