The bad news is that I know I am on borrowed time. I frigging hate the feel and look (not to mention the sadistic real life beta-testing Apple inflicts on us lately, especially with El Capitan) of the 'new and improved' OSes and lack of backward compatibility of the new machines with Snow Leopard. The good news is that for $500 I have a working mbp that hopefully is going to last a while, I really don't want to give up on SL (10.6.8) - it is the most stable OS Apple has released to date. The seller screwed up his description post online. I stand corrected on the replaceable GPU on this board - it cannot be done. I highly recommend them for parts and spares. I finally got a working MB, a new battery and new fans for about USD 500, shipping included. it is quite the mess they've created! Using more than actually needed. Since I had the logic board out of the laptop enclosure, I decided to clean and replace all the original thermal paste that Apple applied. just don't mind the language used! I used a Panasonic Aluminum Polymer Capacitor (. The solution is to replace the bad capacitor with a better part! Louis Rossmann recommended using Aluminum Polymer capacitor because they are highly reliable! Here is the link to his video ( ). Solution was to replace the bad tantalum capacitor not just with a similar part! If you do that, you'll end up with the same issue later down the road. Because the bad capacitor can't handle the voltage anymore, it cause the GPU Panic. When the dGPU is running at high performance settings, it requires a lot more voltage. Results from my research, the issue is the Tantalum capacitor used to regulate power to the dGPU.

I did a lot of research on this issue when my MBP started to crash (GPU Panic) 5-6 times a day. There are a lot of reports with regards to Apple previously replacing the boards and after a little while, the problem reappears.

My MacbookPro6,2 was experiencing GPU Panics.

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