My Macbook Pro with 8600m gt is acting weird

I run Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro. About a week ago, I was playing a game and I realised that it was stuttering a lot, more than usual. So I opened up GPU-Z and I saw that the 8600m gt was set at PCI Express x1 instead of x16. Is there any way to fix this or is this a symptom of the well-known 8600m problem?

You have the Mac with the failing Nvidia 8600 graphic chip. Please read this Apple KB article.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377
If it is less then 4 year old from date of purchase take it to a Apple Genius Bar TODAY. Do not wait because if it fails completely they will not fix it.
If it is over 4 years old, like one day over 4 years old, you will be faced with paying for the repair yourself or buying a new computer. If that is the case, you have to pay for the repair, buy anything other then a Mac. JMO.

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Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):          15
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Display Sleep Uses Dim:          Yes
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Standby Delay:          4200
Standby Enabled:          0
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Thanks for the help.

Carolyn Samit wrote:
Try Troubleshooting the MagSafe adapter
Thanks for that link. It did provide some diagnostic tools to see if the adapter is the culprit. I don't believe mine is. My situation, MacBook Pro 8,2 - early 2011, 2.3 GHz i7. I'm experiencing, while on the adapter, after the battery charges to 100% a slow drop (while connected to the power adapter) to 98%, 97%, etc. Unplugging the adapter for a bit will again bring it back up to 100% but it again starts to drop. I don't think it's the battery - have good on battery performance (in bare bones boot - a special user with no StartUp items) I can get 5-7 hours. I suspect the power adapter - one glaring issue: I have a CAT who thought it cute to chew on the cable but I couldn't tell if it was superficial or had actually damaged the wires inside past the protective sheath. I suspect this could be the issue and have ordered a new adapter. My wife suggested coating the cable with lemon juice to make it less tempting for the cat to bite on. This isn't the first cable this cat (never caught "red handed") has chose to chew on. My Jawbone charge cable was completely severed. I took measures to make the cables less accessible but the damage had already been done to the Mag Safe Power Adapter. As I said, my monthly "battery exercise" fully charges the battery - it is this mysterious battery percentage drop that has me wondering. I read somewhere that some are blaming Mountain Lion, I'm not so quick to do so until I get the new adapter.
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I value your opinions, please help me DECIDE!!!!! I'm frustrated and it's driving me nuts!!! I know it's too much to ask, but if they had a 14", I would probably go with it! A 2" difference seems pretty big. :-)
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I recently ordered a new MacBook Pro with the Retina Display. This will be both my first computer and my first Mac that uses a SSD as the primary storage device. As the title of this post suggests, what I would like to know is what sort of lifespan/longevity can I expect to get out of it? My current MacBook Pro was manufactured in 2007 and has a stock 160GB Fujitsu hard drive that has been fantastic for me over the past 4-5 years. It continues to run like a champ, and I would hope that a brand new SSD would be able to last at least that long. Given that the new retina MBPs cannot be upgraded or (easily) user-serviced, I am somewhat curious to know whether or not Apple's new proprietary SSD modules will give out/slow to a crawl before/after my new machine becomes completely obsolete. I have been searching for articles published within the past few months on whether or not the current crop of SSDs on the market are more reliable than those introduced a year or two ago, but alas, I haven't had much luck. Perhaps it is still too early to tell?
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...I found a few discussion threads on here somewhere where some users indicated that their original MacBook Airs, or other SSD-equipped MacBooks, were still performing quite well and responsively after a few years of use. Can anyone substantiate this for me? How long have you been using your SSD(s) in your Mac(s), and do you think the newer models will be able to last several years? I would greatly appreciate any insight.
While I think your concern is legitimate (it was mine too), I think to some extent, how long they last will be up to you. The individual cells in the flash media in an SSD have limited life spans, and SSD controllers have a variety of techniques to spread that wear around evenly (wear leveling). That wear is exacerbated by the controller having to erase a whole block of data when even just one page needs to be changed, and if not all the data in the block is still valid, more data than necessary gets moved (write amplification). To provide some extra room for all this reshuffling of data, SSD manufacturers build in extra space that's inaccessible to the user (over-provisioning), but it typically runs about 7%. (This is a good discussion of the inner workings of all this)
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You also mention that you "will most likely use it to record several tracks and store my growing library of songs and videos." Why not instead use an external SSD connected via USB 3.0 for storage? They're relatively cheap, very fast, and keep the space on your internal working drive free. A BootCamp partition would also take up space, so you might consider using Windows in a Virtual Machine instead. VMware Fusion or Parallels would be installed on the internal SSD but the virtual machine files could go on the external.
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