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macbook pro 15" unibody possibly overheating/shutting down?
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<blockquote data-quote="fivehawn" data-source="post: 1239532" data-attributes="member: 201483"><p>I had my settings all on as low as possible with everything like AA and bloom turned off and run at the lowest resoloution and it still would have a severe heating problem or something forcing the hardware on my macbook to freeze up. After seeing this happen without overclocking or anything I went online to that find that youtube user saying he needed to overclock his GPU to get it to play properly. Once I had done this it reduced the problem and delayed it from happening quite a bit. I'd only be able to play for about 5-10 minutes without overclocking and when it would freeze up there would be an incredibly loud buzzing sound coming from it, when overclocked I could get usually a game or two in lasting anywhere from half an hour to over an hour, and when it would finally end up freezing up, the buzzing sound is still there, but not as severe, but still caused the entire computer to freeze and stop working. I'm assuming this had to be a hardware problem caused prior to any overclocking because overclocking it started to make it perform better than without. I think I'm going to take it back to the apple store and have them take a look at it. Great timing as my university semester just started last week and I was hoping on using it for that <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Angry-Tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Angry-Tongue:" title="Angry Tongue :Angry-Tongue:" data-shortname=":Angry-Tongue:" /></p><p></p><p>Also, the sound it makes can be found in the first youtube video I linked to. It has a pretty distinct sound, I've never heard a macbook sound anything like that...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fivehawn, post: 1239532, member: 201483"] I had my settings all on as low as possible with everything like AA and bloom turned off and run at the lowest resoloution and it still would have a severe heating problem or something forcing the hardware on my macbook to freeze up. After seeing this happen without overclocking or anything I went online to that find that youtube user saying he needed to overclock his GPU to get it to play properly. Once I had done this it reduced the problem and delayed it from happening quite a bit. I'd only be able to play for about 5-10 minutes without overclocking and when it would freeze up there would be an incredibly loud buzzing sound coming from it, when overclocked I could get usually a game or two in lasting anywhere from half an hour to over an hour, and when it would finally end up freezing up, the buzzing sound is still there, but not as severe, but still caused the entire computer to freeze and stop working. I'm assuming this had to be a hardware problem caused prior to any overclocking because overclocking it started to make it perform better than without. I think I'm going to take it back to the apple store and have them take a look at it. Great timing as my university semester just started last week and I was hoping on using it for that :Angry-Tongue: Also, the sound it makes can be found in the first youtube video I linked to. It has a pretty distinct sound, I've never heard a macbook sound anything like that... [/QUOTE]
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