Are my graphics cards breaking?

My MacBook Pro occasionally ends up with multicoloured lines across the screen. Is this a sign that my graphics cards are breaking?

Good indication. I would take it in for diagnosis.
Barry

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The card is dead silent on idle. I haven't tried it on any games yet, but with 720p HD content like .mkv files playing in VLC, the fan only goes up to 20-25%, and even at that I can't even hear it.
Idle fan speed is about 5%
Idle temps are 63 deg celcius (note that its summer, and my ambient room temps are hot)
Note these temps and fan speeds are under Windows 7 on ATI CCC. I can't get the temps and fan speeds under OSX, but I doubt they are different, the card is very quiet. And yes it does work under bootcamp
Aside from maybe dual flashed PC 1GB 4870s in crossfire, this is most likely the best gpu upgrade you can do presently; it is the best upgrade if you want to stay with apple oem parts.
There is always the dark horse: the GTX 285 from nvidia, however I doubt (wish) that it will be supported for 1st gen MPs. It's possible, though highly unlikely.

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My MBP 15" mid 2010 is beginning to develop serious freezing and scrambled images when viewing streaming videos or websites with flash content. When trying to take a screen capture it comes out black so here's a photo of one example:
http://twitpic.com/43fudt/full
This video shows it affecting the screen another way. When I attempt to scroll, part of the screen is frozen while the other scrolls normally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-ggvFpsPc
Here also is a video showing more peculiar behaviour. When the video is played the image is completely scrambled. It stops momentarily while video is paused then starts again when play is pressed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIq07CNZJec
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No, with thousands of developers out there, there is no way Apple can have a handle on each one. It gives developers tools on http://developer.apple.com/
If developers choose not to use them, or use them in the wrong way without consulting with Apple first, they have only themselves to blame.
We, including myself, are just end users seeing the result of this. You can't expect Apple to police all of them. Especially when you think that 1000 factorial is a greater number than the number of seconds in the age of the universe, and testing each software in combination with each other software out there would take longer than a second a piece.
Apple can set standards that make failure less likely, but they can't enforce it to the tooth and nail and make sure every one of them works together that makes a mistake in development.

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Can I upgrade my (Graphics Card) on my laptop?

Hello can my (Graphics Card) on my laptop be upgraded
this is mine http://gyazo.com/e10f4147557ec792856f20c0e215e553

Hi:
There are no graphics 'cards' in your notebook. The graphics is part of the motherboard and cannot be upgraded or replaced without replacing the entire motherboard with a supported one listed in the service manual for your model--assuming one has better graphics.
Replacing the motherboard would cost you about as much as buying a new notebook with better graphics.

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My son has asked me for a new Graphics card for his PC.(Not a xmas present)
On an old post it was suggested that an Nvidia Geforce GT620 1Gb or an AMD Radeon HD7570 2Gb were the ones to go for. Is this still the case or are there newer/ better cards available.
I have a reasonable budget of £100 ($160)
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I would need the graphics card and PSU combined to be near my budget.
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Hoping you can help
Happy Christmas
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so i now need a new graphics card so i only have to use the new Mac mini port connecting cable, but which card to buy and should i remove the older card.
Replacing the graphics card will do nothing to help you unless your current card doesn't have a dual link DVI port (most all 2 DVI port G5 cards do have at least one dual link DVI port).
There are NO graphics cards that will work in the G5 that have mini display port.
I don't want to use multi cable connections
Using a dual link DVI port from a G5 graphics card, connection to the iMac via the Atlona adapter is the only way to achieve use of the iMac as a monitor with a G5.
http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-Dual-Link-DVI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-USB-Pow ered.html

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No, it is not possible to upgrade the graphics without replacing the entire motherboard.
There are no graphics "cards" in your notebook like there are in a desktop PC.
The graphics (Intel and nVidia) are chips soldered to the motherboard and cannot be upgraded or replaced.

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does anybody know what that means? or why that message comes up? is there anything i can do to fix it?
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Creative Cloud background service constantly uses high-performance graphics card on MacBook Pro

On my MacBook Pro mid-2010, I recently noticed that the high-performance graphics card for some reason was constantly on. In MacBooks as of 2009, there are two graphics cards that can be used, one integrated, one PCIe. The integrated one is less powerful, but is used to preserve battery. The other one is enabled when there is a high demand for graphics power.
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Same here. Macbook Retina 15", purchased earlier this year.
Nice (and free) utility to monitor GPU-usage is:
gfxCardStatus from http://gfx.io/
Helped me to notice that it's better to quit Photoshop if not using it because it still uses the nVidia GPU if Photoshop is not even the active application (eg. running in the background).
But still, sometimes after closing Photoshop, gfxCardStatus says that nVidia GPU is in use for process 'Creative Cloud'.
I'm mostly running on battery and nVidia GPU consumes much, much more battery than the integrated, Intel HD Graphics 4000 so this is a big issue for me.

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