Why is 2011 MBP running hot and freezing (except the mouse), even after a factory reset?

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I have purchase a new macbook pro 2011, and transferred my solid state drive from the old 2009 macbook, (which was showing the same problems) to the new one, and I am still seeing the same sluggish behavior, freezing, and having to hard reset frequently. So I did a factory reset of the SSD, and it seemed to be running faster initially, but in short time I see it is still showing some of the same problem issues. Could this be the fault of the SSD? I thought these things were supposed to be higher quality than an HDD. Is there a way to test it to see if it could be causing the problem, or what might be causing this? Thank you all for your thoughts.

 

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These problems are probably caused by a defective graphics card. You should get it repaired: https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/