2019 MBP 16" - logic board failure rate?

[Chancha]

Does anyone here have had issues with the Intel Core i7-9750H model? I have one since December 2021 (Manufactured in April 2021) but I'm worried if this would happen in the near future.

I mostly use it to edit photos and videos, and doesn't runs "hot" (average temps are about 55-65ºC while editing and with "normal" use it idles at about 35-40ºC, sometimes even 30ºC).

I've watched both iBoff and Louis Rossmann videos and they didn't specify which models are more prone to fail. Sure, all 16" ones have the TPS62180 buck converter, -the chip that literally "fries" your SSD Nand, making your Mac unusable, but I believe that there are some models that tend fail more than the other ones.

Anyway, I love this machine but I'm thinking to sell it to buy an M2 Pro one, because soon or late it will eventually die because of its integrated "Hara-Kiri".

The core issue can already be traced to the power chip as you have known, so all boards with that are prone. And it is uncertain but can be assumed that the more power draw and / or heat of the overall system would then increase the chance of failure. For an i7 with a workflow not involving the dGPU much, it does sound like a safer scenario than not.

In your case since you don't even have the issue yet, I wouldn't worry about it. Though swapping to an Apple Silicon MacBook is just a matter of when. There are other issues plaguing the 2019 16" anyway, getting rid of it ASAP has always been the consensus.

 

[rowlands]

Anyway, I love this machine but I'm thinking to sell it to buy an M2 Pro one, because soon or late it will eventually die because of its integrated "Hara-Kiri".

Personally, I would recommend sooner than later. I replaced mine with a M2 Pro, and so far (touch wood) it's been fine. I also don't really push my machines, except for compiling and that doesn't last longer than a minute or two.

 

[14dcutaneo]

Does anyone here have had issues with the Intel Core i7-9750H model? I have one since December 2021 (Manufactured in April 2021) but I'm worried if this would happen in the near future.

I mostly use it to edit photos and videos, and doesn't runs "hot" (average temps are about 55-65ºC while editing and with "normal" use it idles at about 35-40ºC, sometimes even 30ºC).

I've watched both iBoff and Louis Rossmann videos and they didn't specify which models are more prone to fail. Sure, all 16" ones have the TPS62180 buck converter, -the chip that literally "fries" your SSD Nand, making your Mac unusable, but I believe that there are some models that tend fail more than the other ones.

Anyway, I love this machine but I'm thinking to sell it to buy an M2 Pro one, because soon or late it will eventually die because of its integrated "Hara-Kiri".

I have two i7 models that I push to their thermal limits daily. One with 16GB RAM 512GB SSD and a 5300M, and one with 32GB RAM 1TB SSD and 5500M. I didn't always push them to their limits, but going on about a year straight of the fans idling at around 50% daily with the occasional spike to 100% during high workloads. I'm using them docked with dual 4k monitors, one at 144hz and another at 60hz so the GPU is working at a high wattage (15w on idle thanks to how AMD drivers work).

When it comes to the TPS62180 being prone to failure in i9 models, I don't think this is the case. A few years back, I used to work at an apple store and repaired these machines daily. I was able to dig up some of the work I did. During my time there, I did hardware repairs on 43 16-inch 2019 MacBook Pro's (including screens and other hardware components not limited to logic board repairs). Of those 43 machines, 14 of them had dead logic boards that needed to be replaced. Of those 14, 10 of them were of the i7 variant, and 4 of them were of the i9 variant. A good explanation for what we are seeing online is that nerds like us are the ones that would be getting the i9 variant and be the ones on these types of forms complaining. The average user isn't on macrumors or apple support forms talking about this stuff.

In any case, it looks like no variant can escape the inevitable heat death of the universe 16-inch MacBook Pro