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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1781848" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Welcome to the forum. You need to know that this site is about to close. You can read about it here: <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/news-and-community-announcements/344599-mac-forums-shutting.html" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/news-and-community-announcements/344599-mac-forums-shutting.html</a></p><p></p><p>As for your problem, if the system is under warranty they should replace whatever has failed. Your best bet is to take it back to Apple to have them do more extensive testing on it. The fact the fans ran at max for a couple of days is a sign that it was working very hard. Steam is a graphic intensive app, and gaming adds to that burden, so it may well be that the GPU has overheated and exposed some weakness in it. Have Apple check it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1781848, member: 396914"] Welcome to the forum. You need to know that this site is about to close. You can read about it here: [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/news-and-community-announcements/344599-mac-forums-shutting.html[/url] As for your problem, if the system is under warranty they should replace whatever has failed. Your best bet is to take it back to Apple to have them do more extensive testing on it. The fact the fans ran at max for a couple of days is a sign that it was working very hard. Steam is a graphic intensive app, and gaming adds to that burden, so it may well be that the GPU has overheated and exposed some weakness in it. Have Apple check it out. [/QUOTE]
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